JPEGView was a popular

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for

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in the 1990s by Aaron Giles. Initially released in 1991, it was one of the first

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image viewers for Mac OS. The program was also the first postcardware. Giles said he had "received somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 postcards". The program supported viewing JPEG files with or without

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installed as well as featuring

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s (something that Apple's PictureViewer couldn't do). JPEGView was a default helper application for a number of web browsers, including both

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and Netscape Navigator. The author has released the

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for JPEGView, although he retains copyright.

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External links

Download JPEGView
- from developer Aaron Giles’ own site. Includes source code permission.

- a JPEGview clone for Mac OS X* Macintosh-only software Image viewers