WHS Thumbnailer is a clever thumbnail generator for Windows Home Server created by Antony Croft.
Do you have a lot large photos on your Windows Home Server which are difficult to manage and that take too long to share with your friends and family? Are you a professional photographer and want to sell your photos from your website? Photos and graphics use a lot of server space. This can make Web pages load a lot slower. One option you have is to use thumbnails of your pictures instead. Meet WHS Thumbnailer which makes the creation of image thumbnails a breeze to manage and automate. A thumbnail is a smaller version of the same picture.
Installation
Save the WHSThumbnailer MSI installation file in the Software\Add-Ins folder on the Windows Home Server. The folder path will look like \\<ServerName>\Software\Add-Ins, where <ServerName> is the computer name of your WHS. The addin is installed the traditional way: log on to the WHS Console and click the "Settings" option. The Windows Home Server Settings window appears. Do the following.
- Click "Add-ins" in the left frame.
- Click the "Available" tab in the Available Add-ins frame.
- Click the "Install" button for the Add-in.
The "Installation Succeeded" dialog appears after the Add-in has completed its install. Click the "OK" button to close the WHS Console.
Creating Thumbnails
From within the main add-in toolbar, users can choose to add watched folders for automatic thumbnail generation, or manually add folders or files to the thumbnail generation queue.
Using watched folders is a convenient way to process large numbers of image files automatically. The WHS Thumbnailer background worker service monitors these “watched” folders for new image files and automatically starts processing accordingly.
In the WHS Thumbnailer settings area users can start or stop the service, specify the maximum thumbnail width and height, thumbnail storage folder name and overall thumbnail JPEG quality.
The processed images are saved in the specified thumbnail storage folder, the default name is 'Thumbs".
Changelog:
1.0.0.2.Beta (22 May 2010)
- Removed support for bmp / png files, since its not working correctly yet.
- Fixed an exception thrown in the settings dialog during background service start / stop
- Fixed a problem that would prevent settings changes from taking effect immediately
- Many minor bug fixes
- Added a keepalive timer to stop timeout exceptions between the UI and the background service
- Apply button now working properly in settings dialog
- Added correct file type filter in add file dialog
- Increased maximum thumbnail dimensions to 2048 * 2048
1.0.0.1.beta (21 May 2010)
- Initial release
Improved functionality, including possible Flicker account support has been announced by the author as being in the works.
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