XnView Pocket:Photo Management Tool for Windows Mobile

Jul 6, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

The only photo management tool you’ll ever need

Believe it or not, this pocket PC application actually has more features than most full-fledged Windows desktop tools! A virtual Swiss army knife for the photo management, XnView Pocket comes with the kitchen sink.

After installing the application, it prompts you to browse to a folder with pictures. There are five viewing modes on offer and we highly recommend you try out the Filmstrip view when browsing. Alternately, if you want some information on the pictures, the Detail view will show you a thumbnail preview of the photo, along with its resolution, date of creation, file format and size on disk.

There’s also a cool slideshow option to view the images, with great transition effects. If you’re planning to view a series on pictures in landscape orientation, this way is quite pleasing to the eye.

Now, all of this is good and useful, but it’s nothing out of the ordinary. That’s till you take a peek at the kind of tools that XnView offers.

Want to convert an image? Well, you can swap between different image formats, such as JPEG, GIF, BMP and PNG (TIFF and RAW files are read-only). If it’s cropping that you desire, simply use your stylus to draw out a box and cut the image to size. Resizing, rotating, sharpening, smoothing, noise reduction, brightness, contrast, gamma, RGB controls — XnView just does it all!

The absolutely amazing part is that it supports batch conversion and renaming. And really, it’s a lot easier when you’re working with a touch-sensitive screen and a stylus. Smartphone users need not worry though, because the software works on non-touchscreen phones too.

If that’s not enough, XnView comes with a built-in screen capture and editor tool as well.

And now that you have your edited, cropped and renamed pictures, there’s obviously only one thing left to do: e-mail them to your friends. Well, the program can help you out there too, with a built-in tool to send out emails through your WinMob email accounts.

It took us a really long time to find a software on the PC that did all these features, and with XnView, they’re all here on a tiny little Pocket PC!

Platforms: Windows Mobile

Price: Free

Download: www.xnviewpocket.org