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Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Fotosizer: A free batch image resizer

Fotosizer is a free batch image resizer for Windows. The tagline for Fotosizer is "batch image resizing made easy," and we couldn't agree more.

In the Fotosizer interface, you have the option to select individual files or entire folder. You can also include sub-folders with a simple click. Once you've selected the images you wish to resize, you can resize them in one of three ways: custom size, using a percentage of the original, or using a preset size.

Set your destination folder, output format, and filename mask, and hit Start. That's all there is to it.

In our tests, Fotosizer needs about a second for every file to be resized. Combine the program's quickness with the time you will save by not having to individually resize all of your images, and you might just have enough extra time in your day to boil an egg, or write a Twitter post. Heck, two Twitter posts, even.

Fotosizer is a free download, and Windows only.

[via gHacks]

Filed under: Design, Internet, Web services

Online demo of next gen image resizing method

Image ResizingRemember that crazy image resizing method that can change a photo without dramatically altering its composition? Of course you do, we just showed you the video on Wednesday, and we know your memory isn't that bad.

Anyway, now that Adobe has hired Shai Avidan, one of the guys behind the technology, it's just a matter of time before we see this tool implemented in Photoshop. But in the meantime, Patrick Swieskowski has used the basic principles demonstrated in Avidan's video and created a web-based demo.

The demo is very unpolished compared with the software in the video. For example, you can only shrink images, you can't make them larger. And we're not convinced that it does a great job of finding the best places to cut because some of the shrunken pictures look downright silly. But it'll have to tide us over until someone develops a better web-based demo. Or a finished application. That would be nice too.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Design, Internet, Photo, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Blogging, E-mail, Productivity, Web services, Freeware

QuickThumbnail - online photo resizer

Quick ThumbnailQuickThumbnail is an extremely pared-down online service offering the ability to upload an image and resize, then download the resulting file. Uploaded photos and their resulting copies are kept on the server for only 10 minutes as a security precaution. Resizing options include resizing based on a percentage of the original image's size, using one of a set of fixed sizes, or resizing my a set of "standard" sizes, for example 100x75 for an avatar, or 468x60 for a web banner.

Luckily 250 pixels wide is one of the set values available, so I used QuickThumbnail to make a thumbnail of their own image, and use it in this post, seen at the right. The image quality seems very reasonable, and the process took mere seconds. In fact, I may find myself using this site for more images in my posts, considering how drop-dead simple it is.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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