Tip #3615 - Universal Viewer
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Universal
Viewer
Have you ever gotten
a document or an image from someone and when you go to view it, you realize
you don’t have the correct application to view the content? I have
and I find it a little annoying to have to go out on the Web and look
for some stand alone viewer application just so I can open that one file.
Not to mention, if you do download something that will allow you to view
the file, you may have to deal with spyware, promotions or the unintentional
installation of other piggy backed programs.
So, then there’s
the question of "Is this new application going to take over my file
association for other files on my system"? or "Is it going to
run at start up, slowing my system down to look for updates every time
it detects an Internet connection"? It may seem like I’m inducing
a little panic here and maybe I am, but this is all true and it can turn
something as simple as listening to some Ogg Vorbis sound file from your
friend into a chore that may not even seem worth the effort.
And that’s exactly
why this week's download is so great. It’s called Universal
Viewer and it does just what the name implies. Universal Viewer
(or ATViewer, as they call it) is a small application that gives you access
to tons of file formats, so you don’t have to go hunting through
your system or the Web to find the proper program, just in order to open
the file. How convenient is that?! It’s not just for text documents
and images either. You can view multimedia files, such as audio, flash
and video all from one program. Why didn’t somebody think of this
sooner?!
Universal Viewer
is also unicode compatible, which allows it to integrate with Windows.
That way, you can call the program up from the action menu by right clicking
on the file and choosing Universal Viewer.
On its own, this program can open nearly anything you would ever need.
Take a look for yourself.
Universal
Viewer Without Plug-ins
- Text/Binary/Hex/Unicode:
All files with unlimited file size (even 4 GB+ sizes are allowed).
- RTF/UTF-8: RTF
and UTF-8 encoded texts.
- Image: All general
graphic formats, including BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TGA, TIFF, etc.
- Multimedia: All
formats supported by MS Windows Media Player, such as AVI, MPG, WMV,
MP3, MIDI and so on.
- Internet: All formats
supported by MS Internet Explorer, like HTML, XML, DOC, XLS, etc.
- Plug-ins: All formats
supported by Total Commander Lister plug-ins.
The last entry is
referring to a file managing program called Total Commander. Universal
Viewer integrates with this, giving the user a very flexible and complete
file management suite of, I guess you could say, applications. I will
showcase Total Commander next week, so stay tuned for that!
So, if you come across
a lot of documents that your system just can’t seem to open, you
may want to give Universal Viewer a try. It may make things a little easier
on you!
You can download Universal
Viewer here.
~ Chad
Stelnicki
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