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This app makes sifting through my hard drive so much more enjoyable - I only wish it could handle .CBR/.CBZ comic book archives.

This app is most useful sitting in the dock, where pictures, documents, and movies can be dragged and dropped into the CocoThumbX icon. The program will create the thumbnails as you like and then quit gracefully. Until OS X gains Vista-ish automatic preview icons (which it doesn't look like it will in Leopard) this is going to make my day.

As of version 2, I would've given this app a thumbs up. It's rapidly starting to suck.

The developer has chosen to redo the GUI in what he calls widget-style, resulting in yet another oddball OS X application that doesn't look or act like an OS X application should.

Also, if you're using Appfresh to keep your system up-to-date, the direct link to the file gets redirected to the developer's blog for some reason known only to the dev.

CocoThumbX is a useful application poorly executed.

bailey_ca says: "Rapidly starting to suck"? In my experience, it works perfectly doing exactly what it is designed to do, and doing it well. The reason it does 'act like an OS X app should' is that it is designed not to come to the front like normal apps. In other words, its window sits on top of the screen and has slight transparency, but you are still in the Finder. In such cases the interface choice makes a certain amount of sense.

It's irritating that 'sucks' can mean 'not perfect'. For me it's pretty damn near perfect. With the demise of Pic2Icon it seems the only alternative, and one that is both free and effective.

It doesn't suck.

Heh, I think I'll stick with my current version.

I love how you can save the thumbnails, which as a web designer I need to do often. Very handy, does its job fast and well.

Nice app.
But could have been even better.
1. It adds icons to files that cannot be rendered. This results in ugly mini-icons. I would suggest an option like "add icon to rendered files only".
2. Its effects (shaddow and mirror-effect) make very small icons for all portrait format pictures. I would suggest options like "no shaddow" and "no mirror effect" or "iconize content only".

I use this to create icons from album cover, then copy that icon to the album's folder.
It would be nice if it had the option to set icons to a folder, based on the first picture or movie it finds in it.
Meanwhile, does anybody know how to copy an icon from one file to another faster than going through the info windows (eg: via a special keyboard shortcut)?

Unfortunately, the drop shadow doesn't work when I do 'add thumbnail'. It works when I save as icns file, but that makes the process longer.

> Unfortunately, the drop shadow doesn't work when I do 'add thumbnail'. It works when I save as icns file, but that makes the process longer.
Actually it works, maybe the icon just didn't refresh properly...

I'm not even so sure that this is the program I used before, it's looks totally different.

This spring, I used a program that would sit quietly in it's own window, allow me to drag images too it, and it would rotate, drop shadow, and put a border around it to make it look like a printed image.

http://mypage.iu.edu/~wstubbs/V369/project2/joshua_tree_thumbnail.png

Where, oh where, did my little wonder app go....

This software was quite useful. However, Leopard Finder can now generate thumbnail by itself.

This is one of the first apps I downloaded to my MBP about a year ago and it quickly became one of my all time favourite apps.
Just keep it in the dock and drag entire folders or single files onto the dock icon and it converts them and closes nicely with nary a problem. It has no complication creating a thumbnail for hundreds of files at a time, including entire folders worth of photos, icons or movies. It has allowed me to customize my icons like I never thought I would have been able to and helps me locate images in a flash and all for free (though I loved it so much I did donate a bit to the developer).
Overall, CocoThumbX, apart from the name and the fact that I cannot change it's own icon and still retain dock-functionality is a good solid piece of software that helps me out everyday. I completely recommend it to anyone and everyone.

I found AbiWord to be quite slow at times; and the text resolution left a lot to be desired.
Thankfully I don't need a word processor that much.

a nice oportunity for me to dump microsoft offie of my machines with this replacing word.

This is the only program I could find, other than MacLinkPlus, that can open WordPerfect (wpd) documents.

Why is the text resolution so terrible?? I mean, it is awful, horrendous... unbearable to use. Otherwise it would be good, but I like to be able to read what I have written. Pass on it.

The last time I needed to open a .wpd file, it was easy enough to download the free last version of WordPerfect for Mac from here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/. I can't see using that old WP version for anything else, but if you really need to open .wpd's, perhaps it might be better than installing AbW just for that.

I find this a great tool to open .doc files for reading, it's quicker than AppleWorks and way quicker NeoOffice. I don't like writing in it as much as there are some text rendering glitches. The kerning is a bit messed up and the characters sort of get cut off in random places, it's wierd. I expect this will be fixed eventually. Hoping to see a GNOME Dia port as well!

The version with the best font handling is version 2.2.11, anything later has known font rendering issues.

The main download page no longer features Mac files, however you can still get it from their file server:
http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.2.11/MacOSX/

This is awesome for reading my hentai/pr0n collection ;)
I also use it for image-only PDF files (without text), as it zips through them.