I have used ACDSee for many years, paying every so often to upgrade it. I have no idea why I have been doing this, as it is always slow, has often crashed on me, and for a long time, when I deleted the folder that it expected to open up to, it didn’t even work. Well last night I wanted to print some pictures, so when I hit print, ACDSee shut down in stead.
So I immediately went online and found Picasa 3. I had tried Picasa ages ago when it first came out and was unimpressed. I installed it last night and now I am very happy. It is very simple, and really what I am looking for, and I like the way you can view stuff by their supposed date or by their location in the tree.
So ACDSee has been uninstalled.

I find myself, more and more, moving towards Open Source and otherwise free software. I have Open Office on my laptop. I have used Blender to create the “Billy Elliot, the Box” video, along with Audacity and other free and open source software to complete it. Most of the free and open source stuff I have used has been great.