http://www.tinyapps.org/osx.html

gives you this: http://www.hexcat.com/viewit/index.html

You have Leopard yeah?

Just go into a folder, hit the Quick Look button and you can hit left/right arrows.

something that doesnt need to me to group select all the images I want to look at would be nice

Picasa maybe?

is it too late to send this laptop back and get something with windows on it?

again.. sorry.. Iphoto?! You're going on a trip soon i don't see why you wouldn't be getting to know iphoto pretty dammed well before you go.. it'll make it pretty easy to import your photos, bit of basic basic post processing and with either a flickr plugin or something along those lines you can have them up and about the place for the world to see..

Lightroom is another option if you enjoy adobe workflows... if you have leopard you should be using quicklook as described

Anyone know of a simple free program like MS Paint for OS X? That's the only thing that I've found lacking with the Macs.

You could try this? Never used it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/paintbrush

Also, Google is your friend

gimp :(

album view and quicklook give you crappy thumbnail sized views tho

I want to be able see imagines at their full size, thats why i'm opening them. i dont understand how that can be such an odd request that their isn't a simple solution for it right out of the box


anyway ill try iphoto and all that other shit

still dont see why i have to run a whole new program to do this tho

^^^ That's quicklook. Press space, and then use up down left or right to scroll through items. You can then press space to exit quicklook.

That opens preview, which should also be fine.

Are you still running Panther? If so then quicklook etc isn't available to you. Get leopard if you want awesome photo browsing stuff, but yeah, iphoto is the best. iPhoto normally comes free with every mac btw, but seeing your on a powerbook you probably only have an old version of it on the cd.

If you've used Photoshop before, don't try the Gimp! Interface design is NOT one of their strong points...

And thats saying something! Seeing Adobe has the interface design skills of a monkey on speed.

Ahh skitch, greatest invention ever.

everything is pretty much drag and drop in osx
if not it'll be in the 'customize folder' option

wasn't the whole purpose of leopard to make things fast again?

leopard introduced new features and pretties and stayed lean. snow leopard is next up with the focus on making it leaner

can osx run linux programs?

in the case of my Kyocera printers i would say - yes.

I don't want to try an install Q3a on the boss's Maccylappy though.. might get into trouble

you're yella