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IXLA Explorer

MSRP: $ 29.95

Description: The easiest way to find, store, view and organize images and multimedia files. ixla Explorer automatically creates high quality thumbnails of all your images as you visit each folder. Just click on a folder to view your image files as thumbnails.
 
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Reviewed by: hoseth
 (Intermediate)

Review Date
March 22, 2002

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

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5.00 of 5,
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Review 1 of 2

Price Paid:  $10.00 from Comp USA

Summary:
I was looking for a program that would manage my many image files, easlily convert image formats, and resize images for easier e-mailing. I found Ixla and it was only 10 bucks, so I thought why not give it a try. I really didn''t expect much from it, but I think it does a great job. I can view thumb nail images, view larger versions, or have a slide show of all images in a directory. I have been able to select 10 or more images and do a batch convert or a batch size reduction. It makes e-mailing images easy and quick. I even made a quickie web page for my christmas images. It took me less than an hour to create and upload to my web server. Ixla is simple to use, plus it was cheap. It does tend to crash a lot. I found that if I create lots of directories and keep less than30 images in each directory, the program doesn''t crash as much. I also need to close other applicatations to keep Ixla up and doing the things I need it to do

Strengths:
Ixla is simple to use. You can select several images at once to convert their formats or change their size.

Weaknesses:
It crashes quite frequently. Can''t run other programs and expect Ixla to do the things I want. The web creater is simple, but because of it''s automatic naming of files, I can only make one web page at a time. There may be a way around this, but I haven''t had time to figure it out. But, for only 10 bucks I can deal with it''s limitations.



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Rating
Reviewed by: madrone
 (Intermediate)

Review Date
November 26, 2001

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

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1.00 of 5,
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Review 2 of 2

Price Paid:  $1.00 from CompUSA

Summary:
The overall concept of a image catalogue and viewer at a low price is great. The acutal working product is another matter.

Strengths:
Low cost. Able to thumnail non-mounted drives such as CD-ROMs.

Weaknesses:
Crashes constantly. Extremely slow to start(I''m using a PIII-450 with 128MB RAM). It takes over 40 seconds from moment you double-click the application icon until it finishes booting up!

Similar Products Used:
ACDsee 3.1

Customer Service:
They did respond to my email within one day, but the problem was not solved.



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