Tag Archives: Thumbnail Preview

Create Stylized Thumbnail Preview Sheets For All Images In A Folder

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Among the many advantages of internet is the platforms it offers to artists or photographers to sell their work independently without having to sign on to a label or publication. It’s a good practice that not only lets others buy media for their own websites, blogs and magazines at affordable rates, but also rewards the sellers with decent compensation in return for their hard work. If you’re an artist, photographer or designer who wants to share their work by giving others a glimpse of their creativity without really showing their full work due to the fear of plagiarism, Snap2IMG can come pretty useful. This portable application allows you to create thumbnail sheets of images and can come handy under various scenarios such as viewing a photo collection, publishing image thumbnails on photo sharing websites, or simply taking preview printouts for huge albums. Read More

Change Appearance Settings For Taskbar Thumbnail Previews In Windows 8

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The taskbar thumbnails in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 allow you to have a preview of all the open applications without actually bringing them up onto the desktop. This is especially useful when you have multiple windows of the same application open at the same time. For instance, if you have a lot of instances of Windows Explorer open on your desktop, switching between each one of them in order to find out which one you want to bring up is probably going to take a lot of time. Using taskbar thumbnails, you can easily get an idea about the content within each, and you can just click the thumbnail of the required window to bring it up. However, any version of Windows does not allow you to tweak the thumbnails according to your preference, and you are forced to use the default settings for the preview. Taskbar Thumbnails Tuner is a portable application for Windows 8 that allows you to change various appearance settings for the taskbar thumbnails, including Thumbnail Size, Number of Thumbnails in Group, Horizontal/ Vertical Spacing Between Thumbnails, Margins etc. Keep reading to find out more about this useful tweaker. Read More

CBX Shell Manager: View Thumbnails For CBZ, CBR, ZIP & RAR Archives

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One of the best features of Windows is thumbnail preview, which allows your music, videos, images or other files to look distinguishable. But this feature still needs an improvement and like previous versions of Windows, Windows 8 also does not display the thumbnail preview of compressed archive files. For instance, if you have a comic book saved in the CBR, or CBZ format, you will not be able to see its thumbnail preview in Windows Explorer. A matter of aesthetics perhaps, but having a thumbnail also makes the files a bit easier to identify. So, when you are dealing with such files, you need to either extract, or manually open each file to check the content of archive container. Wouldn't have it been it nice if there were a better, more convenient alternative to that? Well, there is one, called as CBX Shell Manager. It's a small utility for Windows that enables you to view the thumbnails of archive file types, including CBR image archives, CBZ, ZIP & RAR archives. More details after the jump. Read More

Media Preview: Enable Thumbnail Previews For Unsupported Video Formats

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While it might just be a matter of aesthetics, thumbnails are simply an amazing way of browsing through files without even opening them. Windows displays thumbnail previews for video files, but for some file formats, this option isn't natively supported. If this problem is haunting you for quite sometime, worry no more, as Media Preview has a solution for you. This small tool supports a large number of formats and lets you force thumbnail previews over video file extensions of your choice. The supported formats library include 3GP, 3G2, AVI, AMV, DIVX, FLV, F4V, MKV, WEBM, MPG, MPEG, M1V, M2V, OGM, OGV, MP4, M4V, MPV4, TS, TP, MTS, MOV, RM, VOB, EVO & WMV. What's so fascinating about this application is that Instead of extracting the first few frames of the preview, it only seeks out relevant frames, which is quite helpful in instances where you have placed different episodes of the same TV show in a single folder. Quite handy isn't it? Read More

Windows 7 App Launcher: Run Programs In One Go From Taskbar

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Ever wanted to launch multiple applications for performing routine tasks in one go, without having to manually create a batch script to invoke applications’ execuatables? Although the batch script file (.BAT) can be used to run multiple commands and applications, it’s a bit tiresome to manually add new applications to batch file and edit the existing applications’ paths. What you probably need is an application like Windows 7 App Launcher to effortlessly create application profiles, so they can be launched with a single click. It’s an app launcher that lets you add applications, shortcuts, files et., without going through the hassle of creating and editing the script. Since it has a GUI-based configuration console, all you need is to bring it up for adding new applications, changing the profile icons and editing the list of applications, files and shortcuts Read More

Preview Images In Windows Context Menu With FastPreview

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FastPreview is a right-click enhancement application which displays a thumbnail preview of images inside Windows context menu. Clicking on the thumbnail preview opens the respective image in FastPreview viewer and is automatically scaled to fit your screen. FastPreview support for more than 30 image formats and adds a new tab in image properties, which displays adds EXIF, ITPC and XMP information. For better compatibility, FastPreview is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems in separate packages. Read More

How To Delete The Thumbnail Cache In Windows 7

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The Thumbnail feature is no doubt very useful, however it also consumes some resources in terms of disk space. In Windows 7 Thumbnail cache are created so that the thumbnails in taskbar can be previewed much more faster, but if your hard drive space is very low, you may need to clear the thumbnail cache. Windows Disk Cleanup utility enables you to not only clean junk file and temp data from drives, but also remove the thumbnail cache. It lets you select the drive from where you want to clean the thumbnail cache files. Once selected, it starts the cleaning process. In this post, we will guide you through the process of deleting thumbnail cache in both Windows 7. Read More