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I was happy to see that the jQuery website (or at least the plugins section) uses Drupal. But this is not what I'm writing about right now. I was looking for a nice looking slideshow or gallery viewer jQuery plugin to use in one of my company's projects. We already decided that the albums will be handled by the Acidfree Drupal module, but needed a pretty UI for displaying the images. You can search for such jQuery plugins using the advanced search on the plugins page. Restrict the search to type=plugin and enter the keywords "slideshow" and "gallery" into the "Containing any of the words" field. I specially liked Galleria (which is a very good looking gallery/album viewer) and the Cycle plugin (which is a tookit that allows you to easily create fancy slideshows, album viewers or whatever you want).

You can select a number of images in Finder, then right-click and select Slideshow. This will start Preview in slideshow mode, but there's a limitation: you'll see only the first hundred images from what you selected. However if you select "Open" (or "Open with Preview" if it's not your default app for images) in Finder, then you'll see all selected images in Preview. Of course now you've to manually start the slideshow. One more thing: sometimes Preview messes up the order of images in the right pane. In this case you just have to right-click one of the images in the pane and select the name of the ordering type again (probably this will be the default "name").