ACDSee Updates to Version 5.0.1 Released

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ACDSee 5.0 makes it easy to get, view, organize, print, enhance and share your digital photos super fast. Whether you're a digital photography beginner or a graphics professional, the picture viewer of choice for millions of people will make your digital camera software experience more rewarding.

Patches to update ACDSee 5.0 (both regular and Powerpack versions) to 5.0.1 are now available.

This free update includes the following benefits:

Extended database importing/exporting functions to include Categories information
Enhanced TIFF and multipage TIFF handling
Expanded image resizing and exposure adjustment options
Additional shortcut keys for improved workflow
Background enhancements for improved browsing, viewing, slide shows, multimedia handling, managing, organizing and searching, editing and creation, and printing
Smoother installation, including improved silent installs for corporate users.

News source: ACDSee website

Download: ACDSee 5.0.1 (english)

Online ambitions

The rationale behind the reported tie-up is Apple's considerable interest in online music.

The firm's iPod music player has been a hit, and its computers are designed with multimedia capabilities such as music and movies as a top priority.

Apple has also been testing services to make distributing music via the internet easier and less controversial.

Some technology analysts have long argued that computer makers need to sign deals with content providers, as a way of differentiating their products at a time of increasing competition and falling prices.

But going to the lengths of purchasing a record company, rather than simply signing a content deal of some sort, is seen as an unlikely step for Apple.

In the dark

The reports have sown further confusion in what was already a murky sell-off process for Universal.

Vivendi refuses to speak about the progress of talks, and is unwilling to speculate even in the most general terms about what it wants to achieve.

It is still far from clear, for example, whether the music business will be sold separately from other Universal assets.

Various companies have reportedly sniffed around, but the only offer so far has come from oilman-turned-investor Marvin Davis, who has bid $13bn for 85% of the whole entertainment business.

According to press reports last year, Vivendi turned down an offer from Mr Davis in November.

The price tags currently under discussion may well be too small for Vivendi's expectations: Universal Music alone enjoys $6bn in annual revenues.

(3 replies) #1 Kaneda on 12 Apr 2003 - 08:24

oh god. this thing just gets slower every version number they reach... guys, do yourself a BIG favor and stick to version 2.x. it works fantastically, it does everything you will need it to and it is a good, solid, handsome and advanced product like anything else out there today. all the later versions add blaot and fluff that you can just do in paint shop pro, photoshop or even mspaint if you needed to. takes my machine 20 seconds for acdsee 4.0 to access the first image you click in any folder. acdsee 3.0 maybe 4 seconds. acdsee 2.0 opens that image in a flash like i had been running it already.

#1.1 Lurchybaby on 12 Apr 2003 - 08:41

i second that!!

#1.2 noir on 12 Apr 2003 - 08:47

agreed, acdsee classic all the way

#1.3 Jerichohol on 12 Apr 2003 - 10:05

i third this, version 2.0 works the best and the fastest. 4.0 was slowwwwwwww, cant imagine what 5.0 will be. Anyone tried it?

#2 Summi on 12 Apr 2003 - 09:35

Not only ACDSee, but also Winamp, Media player, etc. etc are getting bloated. ACDSee should take Winamp as an example... adding the best features from a new bloated version to an old engine. This leads to great performance and great features without the bloat.

#3 Dominik on 12 Apr 2003 - 10:51

Is it only me,or it loads pictures MUCH SLOWER than any previous version? And it also uses bicubic zooming,which cannot be disabled and that's bad.I think that's the reason why it loads pictures so slow.Older versions use zoominb based on "nearest neighboor" resizing.

#4 midsummerstorm on 12 Apr 2003 - 11:17

I used to love ACDSee back into the 2.x and early 3.x days. Then they thought "this needs bigger boobies", and stuffed it with silicone. Now, I don't like fake boobies, and don't think anyone needs them. Try to google this: Irfanview, slowview, xnview.

#5 Schmoove on 12 Apr 2003 - 11:34

I don't know what you guys are talking about, but the first image loads in 4 seconds here. That's not even on a P4 3.0 Ghz, but on a 1.2 Ghz Athlon. I still love the program, though I have to admit that I disable all the fancy stuff like categories, favorites, albums... etc, etc. Since I just don't use it. Still loving it though. EDIT: Well you can still download ACDSee Classic if you want, I believe that is version 3.0. So they are just going the Winamp-way, they make a big bloated one (like Winamp 3) and they still have the lightweight fast one (like Winamp 2). Though I still think ACDSee 5.0 is pretty good, I rather use it then ACDSee Classic.

#6 DOCa Cola on 12 Apr 2003 - 11:54

Noticed the browser title on the download page? it says ACSDee instead of ACDSee

(1 reply) #7 Darkwolven on 12 Apr 2003 - 13:32

Adobe finally got into the media center game. Adobe PhotoShop Album is everything ACDSee 5 tries to be and more. If you guys don't like this, give Photoshop Album a try. It's really nice IMO. There is also always JASC Media Center 4, though I never tried that one yet.

#7.1 Galley_SimRacer on 14 Apr 2003 - 14:43

[neoquote=#7.0 by Darkwolven]Adobe finally got into the media center game. Adobe PhotoShop Album is everything ACDSee 5 tries to be and more. If you guys don't like this, give Photoshop Album a try. It's really nice IMO. There is also always JASC Media Center 4, though I never tried that one yet.[/neoquote] Photoshop Album does handle "tagging" better, but it is piss poor as an image viewer, and many of the creations, such as a calendar, etc. won't let you use 640 x 480 images or smaller! I made the mistake of buying it. :disappoin

#8 GrimSage on 12 Apr 2003 - 14:11

THe update allows for the selection of a "classic" UI. Looks a lot better and works quite a bit faster

#9 Seismo on 12 Apr 2003 - 15:07

Since I have ten thousands of pics, I go with Thumbs Plus 2002. Its fast and has one feature that no other of those apps have. It can search your whole database for duplicate pictures. I´m not talking about filenames, sizes or whatever, I´m talking about picture geometry. I have nearly 80.000 pics, and not a single one twice.

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#10 hardgiant on 12 Apr 2003 - 15:22

2 and 3 were good, 4 was bad but 5.x has some nice additions.

#11 freeza on 12 Apr 2003 - 17:46

it works beautifully for me

fast as hell and very good

#12 memNOC on 12 Apr 2003 - 18:03

i dont know.. i kinda got used to it.. since i ran the 2.x and 3.x versions on my old Pentium 200 and the pics took 3-4 secs to open up, and now on my "new" P700 they take the same on v5.0.. so its the same for me.. and i like their image editing software.. it does the simple job you need like fixing little things, without opening up Photoshop for that.. sure its bloatware by now, but its simple: if you dont need it, dont install it.. for a freeware replacement, ive heard IrfanView is pretty good.. but me, i like to pay for software..........

#13 gemal on 13 Apr 2003 - 10:20

3.x and 5.x atre bloated. 2.x rocks I've started to use SlowView

#14 JHAres on 13 Apr 2003 - 22:45

I tested 5.0 and when I open a pic, the first pic, it opens TWO windows with the same pic... Unintalling and reinstalling doesn't solve this problem... Anyone had that issue or knows how to solve...???