Aperture 3 Viewer

I maintain the Aperture Library and other family members view with PHPTURE for email, etc. But PHPTURE no longer works with Aperture 3 due to DB changes.
Can anyone recommend a simple viewer across the local network to view the aperture library? Sort of like Front Row with the ability to copy the image. Why doesn't apple put this capability into iPhoto? Many people want the ability to read-only images just like they do with music in shared itunes library. I don't want to go to the trouble of putting images on a server and keeping it updated. Sorry for the rant but I'd appreciate any good suggestions for a viewer.

Why doesn't apple put this capability into iPhoto?
Actually that capability is built-in to iPhoto But I thought you were asking about Aperture.
Anyway for the record:
For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
If you want the other person to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and go to the other machine(s). There, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both machines for this to work.
Regards
TD
Message was edited by: Terence Devlin

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    . Make sure "Mirror" is turned off in System Prefs
    . Put your OS Menu Bar on the monitor you want to display the Aperture Browser.  The other display will show the Aperture Viewer.  (One Browser and one Viewer is the standard dual-monitor set-up.)
    . In Aperture, set the Main Viewer to "Show Multiple".
    . In Aperture, set the Secondary Viewer to "Alternate".
    Experiment.
    HTH.
    Kirby.

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