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520 points omnibrain | 8 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 1.106s | source | bottom
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instagraham ◴[30 Mar 24 17:21 UTC] No.39876705[source]▶
Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
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1. nickjj ◴[30 Mar 24 18:56 UTC] No.39877579[source]▶
IMO it's up there, I've been using it for over 20+ years.

IrfanView and foobar2000 (mp3 player) haven't left my side since I started using them. Ditto (clipboard manager) has also earned its place.

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2. monkpit ◴[30 Mar 24 19:04 UTC] No.39877624[source]▶
To add to that, for me mplayer was clutch for a long time, nowadays I opt for VLC though.
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3. hilbert42 ◴[30 Mar 24 19:15 UTC] No.39877719[source]▶
Right, foobar2000 is great isn't it?
4. integricho ◴[30 Mar 24 19:17 UTC] No.39877732[source]▶
mv2player was a really good option for a period of time, it's a shame it just disappeared, not even it's source code can be found.
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5. baq ◴[30 Mar 24 21:06 UTC] No.39878665[source]▶
Of the three, ditto easily takes no. 1 spot. Must’ve saved me weeks of juggling windows and trying to remember where stuff was at this point. It’s a superpower, a true game changer if I ever saw one.

Maccy on macOS is about half as good which is still an absolute unit of a tool. Couldn’t use a Mac without it.

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6. whitten ◴[30 Mar 24 21:34 UTC] No.39878899{3}[source]▶
That sounds bad. Is it on any old shareware sites ?
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7. nickjj ◴[31 Mar 24 01:29 UTC] No.39880496[source]▶
Yep, funny enough I have a Macbook for work (company laptop) and I also stumbled upon Maccy. You're right in that it's not Ditto but it's quite good and I'm overall happy using it.
8. integricho ◴[31 Mar 24 18:26 UTC] No.39886693{4}[source]▶
https://web.archive.org/web/20120210051507/http://mv2.czweb....

it can be found here, and a few other places as well, but unfortunately the source code was never shared. Though it was such an amazing, blazing fast and bloatfree app, such a shame the code was never shared, and now it seems lost, unless the author is around somewhere?