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- westoncampbell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Direct Link: http://www.websnapr.com/
Test:
http://images.websnapr.com/?url=http://digg.com/design/Screenshot_Thumbnails_with_WebSnapr_Generate_a_thumbnail#c3480562 - GenXXX, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5I wonder Who Dugg or Blogged this? Oh, I see now.
abuse@digg.com- westoncampbell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I don't quite understand your comment. What's the problem?
- GenXXX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3aaaz's little circle of friends artificially inflating stories to the front page.
- tamar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I don't think they were prepared for this.... my "thumbnail" has been sitting in the queue for a good 5 minutes now.
It's better to have a standalone application than a service that is just going to get overloaded and overused.
- mikekeen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Cool idea, but they had to go and make it really lame by jumping on the Flickr brand bandwagon.
- techpimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13You'd think with such a creative service they could have AT LEAST been more creative with their logo. Apparentely the "Web2.0 Logo Creator" isn't just for blogs anymore!
- wolfzombie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Would be nice, but every site I try comes back with the "In Queue" image. I imagine the load on their servers from creating the images gets high pretty quick.
- BackOrder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Can anyone enlist such tools for programmer?
(which does not rely on a website)- rarkai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is my sentiment. What happens when you integrate this into your site and websnappr forgets to pay thier bandwidth bill? You will look like a bad web-designer because end users dont give a ***** about coding, they only know what they see when they go to your page.
Until this is an installable script on personal servers, it is useless to rely on it. - Pissoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been looking myself, I'd even settle for an HTML->PDF->Image
- rarkai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is my sentiment. What happens when you integrate this into your site and websnappr forgets to pay thier bandwidth bill? You will look like a bad web-designer because end users dont give a ***** about coding, they only know what they see when they go to your page.
- Endemoniada, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3How about you digg the actual site, instead of a blog that has nothing to with it?
Buried as inaccurate because of said reason.- TheJosher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3While I agree, it's not inaccurate.. it's blogspam. (so report it as spam)
- silverdragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its not working in safari for me.
- jriley101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sites like http://www.snap.com and http://www.oozm.com has incorporated this feature long time ago into their search algorithm. This is just a site that basically do one of those features.
- grahamcase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm sure if you look at the JS, you could easily create your own thumbnails of whatever sites you wanted, and then implement the code using those images (at least, for the pop-up's).
It really is the pop-up implementation that is cool, http://www.websnapr.com/previewbubble/ - murtlest, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not the JS that is the main thing here.
- murtlest, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't think this is some script that you could run on your own server, you would have to have many browsers with some screencaptureextensions to create the screenshots. But maybe i'm wrong? I hope I am.
- Slig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think they use the gecko engine only, not the whole browser...
- belowe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I think its cool. I wish Digg would incorporate it like original signals does..
And I agree, the hypersensitivity about not digging a web site is lame--going to the weak blog entry first is annoying... and hope the websnaper guys put a link to all of the web sites submitted by diggers.. lastly, hope google (or someone with big bucks) buys them and makes it a reliable and free service. no word on pricing or availability (availability seems to have hit the digg effect--my site has been in the queue for a while.. )
cheers- - cholmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you've got a *nix web server, check out http://www.boutell.com/webthumb/. It's a Perl script that uses X and Mozilla so do this sort of thing straight from the command line.
- bengrine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Cool web site. Thx
- SystemLord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nothing great and worth-while. Just setup iecapt or something to run in the background of your windoze and a simple php passthru call will do all the work. ImageMagick to resize and you're done.
- paolodm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Jeez... your solution is so complicated. I think you're missing the point of the application. It makes things easy... just enter the URL.
- TheKidd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone else expecting to see nude pics? Dammit! Snapr, not snapper!
- TheKidd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my 2 cents: cool idea but I'd get rid of the word "Retribution" on the main page. Has negative connotations. Maybe "Reciprocation" or something elase would be better in it's place.
- ttishgar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone able to get this to work in Firefox?
- khenriks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's another for those who want to run their own on Linux.
http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/html2image.htm - asantos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you use WordPress, you may download the WP-Websnapr
http://andufo.com/proyectos/wp-websnapr/
(and digg it too http://digg.com/software/Websnapr_and_WordPress) - beenhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good,i love thumbnail pics!
- Dunce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great tool. Thanks for the referral. I have similar apps on my website but this has really opened my eyes.
- SatanicPengiuns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It took around 24 hours or so for http://images.websnapr.com/?url=www.esemdesign.com to come out of queue lol. PERFORMANCEEEEE!
- TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Glad to see that screenshots are becoming even more popular!
This is old news though, here is the original "web 2.0" screenshot service:
http://digg.com/programming/AJAX_Driven_Website_Screenshot_Creator - joelgreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you do not like "performance issue" like described above then try generating website thumbnails on your hosting. Below you can find solution for windows hosting
http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/website-thumbnail-generator.php - thumbnailsbeta, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Been working on this currently below, in beta testing, welcome to use it 100% FREE thumbs
http://24.16.171.223/thumb.php?url=http://www.YOURURL.com
http://24.16.171.223/thumb.php?url=http://www.YOURURL.com&x=300&y=300&full
x and y can be anywhere from 100 to 1000, must include http://www
&full gives you a full length thumbnail, unlike any other free or charge thumbnail service! - thumbnailspro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Thumbnailspro.com is currently in BETA testing. Offers free website thumbnails and features you've never seen before... You can request thumbnails directly from your size by using the img tag from your site, see below :
img src="http://thumbnailspro.com/thumb/http://msn.com&S=300"
The cool thing about this thumbnail service is they let you resize the thumbnail anywhere from 10 pixels to 1000 pixels just by adding &S=200, S=whatever size you want... will charge as soon as beta testing is complete.
http://www.thumbnailspro.com - opimon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Mythumbshot.com supprot flash site and 5 file sizes!
http://www.mythumbshot.com - thumbnailspro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Check out Thumbnailspro.com, they are FREE while in beta any allow to request thumbnails directly from your website, any size you want up to 1000pixels! WOW! thats Thumbnailspro.com
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