Last night, after we finished recording G’Day World, Michael Bailey skyped me and told me he had a new idea he wanted to run past me. What if he built a service that would make it easy to get a screengrab of a website? I said "hell yeah, that’d rock", as I often go through the laborious process of CTRL-PRTSCN, then find an image program to dump it into, export as jpeg, upload to flickr, and FINALLY you have a URL to post into a blog.
Well 12 hours later and Michael has it built. He’s called it THUMBPRESS.
Here’s an example of the TPN website.
That is just so useful. Thanks so much for the links. Far better than the usual 15 clicks I need to do to achieve the same result.
Hey Cam, buggered if I can get that link to work, mate. Is it correct?
Cheers
Des
Working for me Des, just checked it. Thumbpress.net?
Sorry mates, the site might be up/down for a bit – trying out some new technology and something isn’t right yet.
Oh, also I just found some code today that will let you get mini-thumbnail images just by hovering over a hyper-link. Would anyone be interested in that?
Michael Bailey
Nah Cam,
” Ah cain’t get it ta work neither! ”
The jobz already been done very neatly by Mirek Wojtowicz’s freeware prog. MWSnap screen capture utility.
From the website http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html …
Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen.
MWSnap handles 5 most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker and a window spy.
It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter.
Screen grabs can also be sent straight to a printer.
Keep up the good work guys, Warrick.