Mac OS X Tiger, Instant Slideshows In Finder

Up to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, viewing images as a slideshow could only quicky be done by a few means. Most of which require complicated processes, eg importing the images into iPhoto and creating a slideshow within it or downloading and using a third party application.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, introduces slideshows on the fly that can be started right inside your Finder itself.

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Creating Instant Slideshows In Finder
The process is simple:

  1. Place your image files in a single folder created on your hard disk;
  2. Open the folder in Finder;
  3. Change the Finder view to the List view by selecting the List view button in Finder or pressing Cmd + 2;
  4. Select the images you wish to include in your slideshow;
    • To select multiple images in sequence – click the initial image move your cursor to the last image in the sequence and shift + click; all images between the initial and final image will be selected or;
    • To select multiple images not in sequence – Cmd + click on desired images to select several images;
  5. CTRL + click on any of the highlighted images to summon the option menu;
  6. select and click the “Slideshow” option to begin your slideshow;
  7. press any button to stop slideshow.

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Mack

In 1978, founders Matt and Hendricks were looking for a tech event to showcase their new startup. When they couldn’t find one that checked all the boxes they decided to host their own. As they were organizing things, they soon realized they needed somewhere to promote the conference, and that’s how newsweb.com was launched. It later became a blog and the result is what you are looking at right now.

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