Another reason why having employees online can be good for your business

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I’ve recently struck up a friendship with Connie Benson.

Connie, it turns out, is a dab hand at blogging and is also ACDSee’s Community Manager to boot.

So why is this good for business?

Because over the last month or so I’ve exchanged quite a few ‘pokes’ with Connie over on Facebook and recently started to read her blog posts.

In the process of following the links from Facebook across to Connie’s own blog, I suddenly noticed one day that she is the Community Manager for ACDSee.

ACDWho?

ACDSee was one of the first graphic managers I bought, years ago (around version 3). I used that version for years and years until finally upgrading to version 8 about 18 months ago and I’ve been happily using it (except for one minor niggle) ever since.

But with the arrival of Adobe Bridge, Fireworks, Dreamweaver et al all in one package, I’ve been forsaking ACDSee for the Bridge, because it seamlessly interacts with the other abovementioned products.

But if Bridge has a fault it is that it is resource-intensive, using a lot of my pc’s precious ram.

Seeing Connie’s job title reminded me of the ease of use that ACDSee has and I have reverted back to it as my graphics manager of choice — handy for when I need to scour my files to find a good photo to use at the top of a post.

Connie didn’t set out to ‘bring me back into the fold’; I doubt she knew I had a copy of ACDSee at all. But because she was online she started a chain of events that has led me back to using the excellent piece of software.

Thanks, Connie.

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Oh yes, and that one annoying niggle? Back in v3 I could right mouse click on an image in the viewer and be offered a choice of locations where I could ‘copy’ an image to without involving an extra click. In v8 I only get to another dialogue box — no major drama by itself, but when I want to rename an image because a copy already exists in the new folder, the old v3 had a much neater (to my mind) dialog box which showed you both images and let you rename the newer copy.

No doubt the functionality exists within v8 but it is a lot more mouse clicks and I really did love that quick image-copy process in v3.

Niggle/rant over. If you want me to evaluate a copy of the latest version, Connie, I’m happy to oblige

Update: Oh, and how do I connect to my webserver from within ACDSee, Connie, so I can see what images I have already uploaded to there?

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