Automatically Reduce Images Before Sending In Thunderbird

Photos these days can are often in the Megabyte range which makes it difficulty to transfer them via email or other means. Email is special as it has a it is usually limited in the amount of Megabytes you can send per email. The limit is usually in the 15 to 25 Megabyte range, with companies like Microsoft working their way around the limit by hosting the attachments in the cloud and replacing the attachments with links to the cloud hosted files instead.

Some users help themselves by running their photos through image optimizers like Riot, VSO Image Resizer, or a dozen of additional image resizers optimized for that task.

The Thunderbird extension Shrunked Image Resizer handles the task automatically whenever you send images as attachments. The extension displays a configuration dialog whenever you do that allows you to select a desired maximum resolution for each photo, as well as the quality of the converted images. You can furthermore define a minimum file size in the extension options. All images below that size are not converted at all, while all greater than the selected size are.

Once you have made your selection you will see a progress bar coming up that indicates the conversion progress. The process itself should not take long, and you will notice that large images are reduced significantly in size by it.

There is no preview of the output image which is one of the things that could be improved by the author, as here is no way currently to check the quality of the converted images before they are send out. You could send the first batch of images to your own address to verify the quality of the conversion before sending them to other recipients.

Shrunked Image Resizer regardless of that is a useful extension for Thunderbird users who often encounter issues when sending photos as attachments in the email client.

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Resize Images Directly On Web Pages In Firefox

It happens that you stumble upon a site where images are posted that are simply to small to make out all of the details. Some let you view a larger version of the image when you click on it, while others do not offer larger versions of the images at all. This can be a problem, for instance on shopping sites if you’d like to zoom in on a photo of an item that you consider purchasing.

We have covered extensions and userscripts before that can do that, like the Image Zooming extension or the userscripts Mouseover Popup Image Viewer and Zoom Image.

The Image Resizer/Scaler extension offers a different solution, that many Firefox users may find more comfortable and less obtrusive to use. Instead of zooming an image on mouse over, or on right-click, the extension adds drag zooming to the web browser.

All that it takes to zoom an image is to hold down the left mouse button while the mouse cursor hovers over it, to either zoom in or out by moving the mouse into the upper left or lower right direction. The cursor changes once you start moving the mouse to indicate that you can now zoom in or out with the mouse.

You need to keep in mind though that the image is limited to the space it was posted on, which means that you may not see all of the image if you zoom out to much. This is for instance the case on Google+ where images cannot go beyond the post width.

Two additional features have been added by the author of the extension. A right-click on the image resets it to its original size, while a double-click maximizes it automatically. You can also hold down the Ctrl key to disable the feature for the time being on the current page.

All in all a useful extension for users who want mouse image zooming capabilities in the browser.

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Copy Images That You Have Viewed In Your Browser To Your Hard Drive

One of the things that a browser does when you open a web page is to move downloaded page items into the browser cache. Elements can be all kinds of things, from the HTML page itself to media like images or videos. Some users may wonder why browsers make use of a cache, and the main answer for that is speed and bandwidth. When you reconnect to the web page at a later time, your browser will first look into the cache if elements have already been downloaded. If that is the case, they are loaded from the computer’s hard drive which speeds up the rendering of the website and saves bandwidth that can then be used for other tasks.

And since they are already available on your computer, you can move them from the cache directory from where they will be deleted eventually, to another directory on your computer. That’s handy for instance if you have been browsing photos or wallpapers lately and want some of them saved permanently on your computer.

Browsing the cache manually is not such a pleasant experience on the other hand, as you usually cannot link file names to sites or contents.

The free software Cache Copy changes this by allowing you to move images out of the Firefox or Chrome cache automatically.

When you first start the program you see that the default browser and profile have been selected automatically. You can switch to another cache folder if you want to move images that you have seen in another browser. The program works in all folders, which means that you can also use it to copy images out of regular folders on your computer.

All that’s left then is to select a target folder for the images, and look at the parameters to adjust them to your needs.

Include images up to makes sure that only new images are copied and not all images.Include images larger than copies images even if their file size is larger than the selected size.The last entry does the same but only resolution wise.

You can change or disable the parameters if needed. You can download Cache Copy from the developer website. The program requires the Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0.

Nirsoft has released comparable programs. Video Cache View looks for videos in the browser cache, Firefox Download View and Chrome Download View for browser specific solutions, and Website Sniffer for a realtime application.

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