SlideShow Bob

Here is a handly little image viewer that you can use to show JPEG pictures that you took on your digital camera. Also it will show GIF or BMP pictures.

SlideShow Bob is portable. You can put it on a memory stick, CD, or DVD along with your pictures, and use it to view the photos. It can be used on Windows computer including Windows 95, 98, XP, or Vista simply by running the software (no installation required).

When you start SlideShow Bob, it presents a window where you choose the folder containing your folders. You can then show each picture full-screen, simply by pressing the space bar to advance from one picture to the next.

Slideshow Bob will show photos in alphabetical order of filename. Typically your digital camera will name photos with a name and sequence number such as PIC00001.JPG, PIC00002.JPG, etc., in which case Slideshow Bob will show them in the order taken. (Alternatly you can use Windows to rename the files so that they are organized differently, and they will play in order of the names that you have assigned.)

Some digital cameras give you the option to record a ".WAV" sound clip along with each photo. That gives you the opportunity to say the names of the people in the photo or to describe the occassion. Slideshow Bob will automatically play the ".WAV" sound clip with each photo. For example, for PIC00001.JPG, it will look for PIC00001.WAV and play it if found.

Click here to download the software. The download file is less than 1.4 MBytes (small enough to fit on a a floppy disk), so it will download quickly even on a dial-up connection.

The download is a self-decompressing ZIP archive. Run it to decompress the files. You will find the program "SlideSho.EXE" and several ".DLL" files that it loads when it runs. To use the program, run "SlideSho.EXE". No installation is necessary.

Note: To run "SlideSho.EXE" after you have downloaded and unzipped the files, use Windows Explorer or My Computer to view the folder containing SlideSho.EXE, and then double-click SlideSho.EXE. Alternately you can run it by clicking "Start", then "Run", and then click "Browse" to find "SlideSho.EXE".