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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 06, 2006, 12:14 PM »

Is this highest quality setting the out-of-box setting.

I need to come up with a file size limit that covers 95% or so of the images people want to resize without killing me with bandwidth costs.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 06, 2006, 11:37 AM »

Quick question for everyone.  What is the default file size produced from your digital camera?

I want to make sure my size limit does not prevent most non-techie users from resizing their digital camera images (one of the main reasons I put the site up).

Thanx in advance.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 05, 2006, 10:54 AM »

Thanx all.

Please keep in mind that I thrive on suggestions from users.  I feel that I have ideas of how things should work and sometimes can't see other, better methods.  So, if you 'want it your way' just ask.  I listen.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 04, 2006, 10:17 PM »

OK.

New feature added:
Quick Resize: Once you've uploaded an image and selected some resize options you can now quickly resize the image to a new user entered size.  This allows you to tweak the image size from the uploaded image instead of re-uploading.  This new option is at the bottom of the resized image page.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 04, 2006, 09:57 PM »

Mouser,
I actually thought of this.  The first thought on how to do this application was to create a proof sheet looking page with the varying sizes.  The reason I quickly got away from is I feared I would be using way too much bandwidth and the cost might be greater than the money the ads bring in.

I have no problem giving my time away for free creating things (or the result not bringing in money) but I'm just not in a position to have it cost me money.

So, I went with an option were users selecting sizes.  I felt that even if they needed to do it again it would still be less bandwidth than a proof sheet.

What I may do, since the picture is stored on the server for 10min, is allow them to quickly resize from the results page with a new, user entered size.  The thought being that they would get close, if not spot on, with the first round and then would need only one more resize.  They could now visually see that 500px is too large and 250px is too small so they could enter 350px and get that single sized image.  The thought would be that 50-60% of users will get it in the first selection and we would get 80-90% in two rounds (the last being a single user entered value).

Oh, and you may have noticed that the percentage slider now goes to 150% to allow enlarging images.

Thoughts?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 04, 2006, 09:41 PM »

Thanx for finding that one Mouser.

All fixed now.

Does anyone think a 60px option would be a good idea (standard avatar size)?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 04, 2006, 09:27 PM »

Weird.  I need to look into this.  Thanx

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 04, 2006, 08:59 PM »

oops.  I justed fixed an issue where upper case extensions were deemed invalid.  It will now recognize both upper and lower case extensions.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 04, 2006, 08:25 PM »

simultaneous generation of different sizes

-mouser (November 04, 2006, 05:39 PM)

I like that phrase.  Need to use it on the site.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 04, 2006, 05:26 PM »

Quick Thumbnail is an online image resizer.  This one not only provides resizing by percentage or by pixel but it also allows you to create mulitple resized images in one go.

As this is the first release, there may be things that can be done better but I think its a great start.  Over time I may add size options based on user feedback so please let me know how it may be lacking.

Anyone that knows me knows that I like to create application where I think there is room for something better.  I also create things that perform a specific function. I'm not too into the swiss army knife approach to application design. 

This application falls into the category of do one thing and do it well.  Its was created for my clients who have other ventures where they need to convert digital camera images to something more web ready.  To help them out I created Quick Thumbnail and decided to share it with everyone else.

Link:
http://quickthumbnail.com/

Enjoy and as always comments welcomed

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Official Announcements / Re: --> DC November Giveaway: Win MS Visual Studio Suite (worth over $10k) !!!

« Last post by Veign on November 01, 2006, 07:53 PM »

Another thing: Visual Studio is a great platform for building ASP.NET applications.  So, any serious web devs would benefit greatly from this...

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Official Announcements / Re: --> DC November Giveaway: Win MS Visual Studio Suite (worth over $10k) !!!

« Last post by Veign on November 01, 2006, 10:51 AM »

Thanx to DonationCoder for putting this contest on.

This prize is something I have had for 4 years and its an amazing software package.  Setting up development machines running any MS software is a huge advantage and made my development life easier.

Also, the MSDN subscription will be for 1 year from activation of the invite.  During this time you will receive updated DVD's every month.

Enjoy and good luck to all.

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Living Room / Re: Toad for MySQL 2.0 - Free Version Available

« Last post by Veign on October 31, 2006, 09:31 PM »

How is it different from the GUI tool pack provided by MySQL?

Another freeware option that works well is MySQL Manager (lite version is free)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Speeding up Windows

« Last post by Veign on October 21, 2006, 12:10 AM »

That could be JavaJones.  I was going by memory that it was just visualization but it could have included some tools.

MS either pulled it because:
1) If tools where included they were too risky for them to support
or
2) They didn't want you to see what was happening during the boot and how long it took.  Might have reflected poorly on WinXP.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scrybe: an online organizer that goes offline just as easily

« Last post by Veign on October 20, 2006, 11:56 PM »

I'm ahead of the game

(man I need a life)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scrybe: an online organizer that goes offline just as easily

« Last post by Veign on October 20, 2006, 11:41 PM »

Looks pretty cool doesn't it?.  They may be onto something and the print option is a great touch.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Speeding up Windows

« Last post by Veign on October 20, 2006, 11:12 PM »

Not sure what you are saying since BootVis is only a visualization tool and does not change or affect the boot process.


Should have posted a download link:
http://www.softpedia...-Tweak/BootVis.shtml

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General Software Discussion / Re: Speeding up Windows

« Last post by Veign on October 20, 2006, 10:59 PM »

Check out BootVis to see whats what during the boot process:
http://www.microsoft...astboot/bootvis.mspx

How many fonts do you have loaded?  Reducing fonts can help.

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Living Room / Re: MouserMon - a silly tool that lets you know when the Boss is/not on the foru

« Last post by Veign on October 18, 2006, 08:58 PM »

What about any user on any SMF powered forum?

Good idea Allen.

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Living Room / Re: MouserMon - a silly tool that lets you know when the Boss is/not on the forum

« Last post by Veign on October 18, 2006, 05:51 PM »

Uh oh - do I see an order of protection in mousers future?  Do the words "I'm your biggest fan" mean anything to you?

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Living Room / Re: Windows Vista Pronunciation

« Last post by Veign on October 17, 2006, 12:56 PM »

I have lived in the south for almost 10 years now and still can't myself to say that one.   Just sounds too weird.

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Living Room / Re: Windows Vista Pronunciation

« Last post by Veign on October 17, 2006, 12:39 PM »

I always got weird looks for saying Package Store for a liquor store.  Must be a northern thing.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Audio Book Set, 5 books/20 tapes

« Last post by Veign on October 13, 2006, 01:40 PM »

I have that on MP3 and listen to it on long trips.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Finally made a descision

« Last post by Veign on September 28, 2006, 09:42 AM »

Cfont Pro has a direct download at the bottom of the download page.

Download.com takes a while to update.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Finally made a descision

« Last post by Veign on September 27, 2006, 10:45 AM »

My software is popular.  Problem is there are so many freeware alternatives to software that some software just doesn't work well under the shareware umbrella.