Liked the simplicity of Microsoft Office Picture Manager. What to use?

Last night, I imported all my pics to iPhoto and was kinda disappointed. It does fine with grouping my pics into separate events and libraries but I was kinda looking for something light and simple like the Microsoft Office Picture Manager. iPhoto can't even let me zoom on my pics. On the other hand, Preview can zoom but makes the pics look pixilated.

I miss the simplicity of the Office Pic Manager. Click on one photo and it can let me browse on the next photos that's located on the same folder.

I don't really need an editor since I use Lightroom. Just something light and does all the basics of viewing pics.

Any suggestions?

go to your picture folder, open a folder and select all, then click on the little eye in your toolbar, play with that and see how you like it

Yep, but that doesn't zoom, does it?

just click the diagonal arrows for fullscreen

instead of preview, download zee, http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee.html
its free, and superior to preview

Excellent... now using Xee.... Exactly what I need. Thanks, podraig.

One thing I've noticed though, as a new switcher from windoZe, that whatever app I'd use to zoom on a pic, if the photo is not big enough, it becomes pixilated. On windoZs, it just gets slightly blurred.

Oh well, another thing to get adjusted to.