Comments on: Thumbalizr: A Really Good Idea, If It Worked

By: Siddha

Siddha — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:13:58 +0000

It’s webdev tool;
try to setup snapshotting scripts on remote server which can give user an idea what’s located on a link w/o going and loading the entire page in a pop up/any other alternative. It’s a bitch to do it.
For *nix = FF (or similar) – setup dummy video card (if required) – setup php to trigger shell script, which will open browser/take snapshot/save it/then locate it show to the user.

For windows based servers there is php dll which hangs around the web, but ultimately idea is identical, u open up browser, go to link, take snapshot…

Point is, instead of spending hours of my time to make it all work, and handle broken links and such, i’d rather pay few $$ a month to get service like that to do it for me.

I don’t quite understand loads of QQ’ing done in above comments.
It remind me of people who buy a car and then whinges about inability to fly. Silly.

I know there is print screen button. And well aware abt software which can take snapshots for me. But all of it on your client side. You don’t have such basic “luxuries” on remote servers. You need to set it up. Manually.

As a webdev – extremely with thumbalizr.
Well done guys, hope you do well in a future.
P.S> would be nice to get snapshots quicker 8-P

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:16:12 +0000

Wow… I guess this was still such a new concept back when this post made it’s debut.

Nearly ever person who commented on this post completely missed the point.

If you install a plugin to a browser to MANUALLY capture website thumbnails, then you simply don’t get it. We’re talking FULLY AUTOMATING the process here, folks. That’s the benefit.

Cheers,

Brandon

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By: P-O Forsberg

P-O Forsberg — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:08:25 +0000

Another nice tool for free (if you remember to use it when you need it..)
But is there any business model behind this initiative?
Are they waiting for Google to take over for X billion dollars when they have captured enough screenshots ?

By: nicolas block

nicolas block — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:37:09 +0000

Frankly, I’m a little surprised that it shot my myspace page in German and presumably from and IE/Windows perspective that doesn’t anti-alias the fonts.
Appropriately, one of my comments did read: GroB Dich, Herr Block. Was ist dein Geburtsort? Tschuss, Frau Fisk.

By: BlogInterviewer.com

BlogInterviewer.com — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:01:41 +0000

I’ve been using this software regularly, and it was fine until it went into Alpha. Hopefully over the next couple of days they’ll fix the bugs.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:49:46 +0000

For screen shots I love Captura. I can just grab a section of the screen and it’s freeware.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:29:15 +0000

Seems like a pretty good idea…I’ll keep it for when it works.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:02:28 +0000

Hey Dan,
In what ways would you say Shup is better than SnagIt?
SnagIt, too, has a built-in image editor.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:23:09 +0000

Shup is way better than SnagIt. It uploads to multiple and custom hosts, has a built-in image editor, and lets you connect to the Ignite network (for collaboration, like a multiplayer Shup). Plus it loves you.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:23:17 +0000

[prnscr]

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:55:49 +0000

Sangit is hands down the best app for capturing & editing screen shots & it’s cheap. The scrolling feature to grab the entire page instead of just the visible is indispensable for my work

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:27:15 +0000

Use SnagIt…best thing I’ve seen.

By: Wow

Wow — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:35:56 +0000

Snagit.

By: WebInFarmation

WebInFarmation — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:24:16 +0000

Why not drop $30 and use the best software on the market http://www.snagit.com does it all. Or if you need video try the free http://www.projectjing.com just out.

By: marques

marques — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:09:50 +0000

This has been done before by webthumb (webthumb.bluga.com) which was mention above, webthumb also provides an API. I will give thumbalizer credit for being able to support flash!

http://www.thum....jpg&w=1024

By: EH

EH — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:06:47 +0000

Loving the shill comments. I think we’re seeing the business version of “Thanks for the add!!!11@!”

“I heartily endorse this product or service.” –Krusty The Clown

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:31:14 +0000

For crying out loud, it’s clearly marked as alpha. You guys do know what alpha means, don’t you?

By: Sir Lancelot

Sir Lancelot — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:00:21 +0000

Use this firefox extension, Pearl Crescent Page Saver, it has been useful for me. Allows you to save visible portion or the entire page.

By: Ben Elowitz

Ben Elowitz — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:40:06 +0000

Another vote for SnagIt. SnagIt is the #1 favorite piece of software among Wetpaint’ers.

–Ben

By: Michael Levinson

Michael Levinson — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:20:11 +0000

oDesk’s screensnap tool enables annotation, drawing and cropping, and the result can be uploaded instantly to a public URL on odesk.com OR copied to clipboard for use on the desktop. An example is here: https://url.odesk.com/jcxp3.

Requires downloading oDesk Team or oDesk Share (a small, free SysTray application). http://www.odes...unity/downloads

(Disclosure – I am a product manager at oDesk)

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:41:09 +0000

Why not just use Jing? Works for anything, not just Web pages. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty damn good.

By: Alden DoRosario

Alden DoRosario — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:02:27 +0000

The real value of this is the API. It will be interesting to see how they monetize the API. Over the past few months, a couple of other companies that sell this service have approached us with their APIs.

ask.com was probably the biggest user of a service like this (they used it to show thumbshots of the web results).

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:00:06 +0000

Paparazzi! (for OS X only) is the best free web page screenshot tool out there. It does everything.

http://derailer.org/paparazzi/

By: whoisthis

whoisthis — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:50:56 +0000

hey Duncan, you wanna review my site here. http://www.picmage.com. I bet you it will beat Thumbalizr and win the “most useless site award of 2007″