Firehand Ember

Firehand Ember is a Windows-based image viewer, editor and organizer. It is no longer commercially available as the company ceased to exist following the death in 2006 of the program developer, Matthew Warren Smith, who was also the company owner. [1]

Features

Firehand Ember was offered in two editions, a lightweight free edition for image viewing and a heavyweight image processing edition. The lightweight edition essentially consists of two programs; a browser and a viewer (called a "popup" by the application). The user can configure either to run when an image is double clicked. The browser displays in its window thumbnails for all images in the directory of the selected image. The viewer simply displays the image. If an image is selected in the browser and double clicked, the viewer displays that image. Closing the viewer then takes the user back to the browser.

While using the Viewer, the picture can be advanced to the next or the previous by holding the CTRL key and press an arrow key. The menu can also easily be removed from the view and the view can display its pictures full screen. Slideshow options are also available.

The browser does not keep thumbnails in a database or library. When files are moved around in the browser it really moves them on the hard disk thus allowing organization of files on the disk. Simple tasks like rotating and resizing pictures can be done from the browser one at a time or in large batches. Such changes take place with no apparent loss in picture quality. pictures can also be changed from one picture format to another in large batches. Some of these features may be absent from the free version.

Malicious code

Firehand Technologies was caught putting malicious code in their product as an attempt to fight theft. The security mechanism resulted in corrupting each file in the user's C:\ drive.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Deaths - 3-10-2006 Tulsa World".
  2. ↑ Sevcenco, Serghei. "Trojan.FireAnvil: Technical Details", Symantec Corporation. Retrieved August 1, 2013.

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