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title: "IrfanVIew - simpler, faster, and FREE"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/13/irfanview-simpler-faster-and-free.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/13/irfanview-simpler-faster-and-free.html"
published: "2004-03-13T16:35:00"
updated: "2004-03-13T16:35:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Scoble recommends ACDsee to view your digital pictures, and I partially agree. I used it for a long time, but then.. somehow, it got big, and clumsy and heavy and bloated. Guess what? I use IrfanView now. It's free, and…"
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# IrfanVIew - simpler, faster, and FREE

By Roy Osherove March 13, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 13, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/) [recommends](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/03/13.html#a6987) [ACDsee](http://www.acdsystems.com/english/products/acdsee/index) to view your digital pictures, and I partially agree. I used it for a long time, but then.. somehow, it got big, and clumsy and heavy and bloated. Guess what? I use [IrfanView](http://www.irfanview.com/) now. It's free, and it shows you the picture **much faster** (like blinking fast) than ACDsee, and it's simpler and less bloated. Like Office, I'd only use like 2% of ACDSee's features anyway.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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