Thumbalizr makes it easy to take web screenshots

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Thumbalizr makes it easy to take web screenshots

by Chris Gilmer Aug 29th 2007

If you find yourself taking screenshots of online applications, images, and content you find around the web, like the DLS bloggers often do, you might want to consider thumbalizr.

Thumbalizr is a handy website that takes a screenshot of any webpage. No more hitting the "Print Screen" button and pasting in Photoshop. Thumbalizr takes all the dirty work away and makes it as simple as entering a URL into a form field. Thumbalizr then pumps out a screen shot in 5 common pixel widths. Choose from 320, 640, 800, 1024, and 1280 widths, or you can even do a custom one. The application will actually take a screen grab of just a single screen view, or even the whole web page, from <html> tag, to </html>. Thumbalizr might not be good for zooming in on a particular area, but for capturing a general space its great.

Check out a sample full page shot of DownloadSquad.com.

Tags: image, photo, picture, screenshot, Thumbalizr, web2, web2.0

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