Some Lagniappe for You
By Tiny Ruisch
la·gniappe (lnyp, ln-yp)
n. Chiefly Southern Louisiana & Mississippi
1. A small gift presented by a store owner to a customer with the customer’s purchase.
2. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. Also called regionally boot.
Everyone has their favorite image viewer program. Let me tell you a little bit about mine. I’ve been using VuePrint as my default viewer for about fifteen years now. When I first started using the program, it was shareware that sold for ten dollars. About five years ago, the author quit updating VuePrint and released the program as freeware. It hasn’t been updated since 2007.
You may wonder why I keep using such an old, outdated program. The answer is simple. It is very fast and it still works better that most other image viewers. It doesn’t have a lot of features, but you can crop images, convert image formats and reduce the size of images for e‑mailing.
The program does one thing very well. If you’ve got a lot of images, you can browse through them extremely fast. Just press the space bar for the next image or the backspace key for the previous image. Press the “t” key to view thumbnails. It’s easy and fast.
Other minor functions are the typical ones found with most image viewers. You can flip, rotate, mirror, adjust contrast and brightness, etc. You can also use the program as a movie viewer, but it’s not the best.
Did I mention that this program is fast? If you’ve got a lot of pictures on your hard drive, why not download it and give it a try? I think you might use it regularly. You can download VuePrint here.
If you like this program, just tell everyone that you’ve got a SWLAPCUG extra, a bonus perk, a small gift, a present from the club: a little lagniappe.