YouTube Thumbnail Generator is a simple website for people who want to extract the thumbnails of a specific video. The thumbnails can be saved and used on any website a person wants.

Using the online tool is easy. All a user has to do is go to the YouTube video for which the thumbnails need to be extracted, and copy the main URL link. Paste the link into the text-box provided on the YouTube Thumbnail Generator website and click on the Subscribe button. In a few seconds, you will be shown the thumbnails, which you can save and show on your blog site or any other place you wish.

Features

• Free and easy to use.
• Generate thumbnails from YouTube videos in seconds.

Check out YouTube Thumbnail Generator @ http://youtubethumbnailgenerator.blogspot.com

Make A Thumbnail is a free to use website that produces thumbnails for images stored on your computer. You can start using the site’s services without signing up for anything or installing any software.

First you specify the path to your image file and then you select your desired thumbnail size from the given options. Your thumbnail is quickly generated in the PNG image format. You are provided with the thumbnail’s direct URL, embeddable code, and BB code.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you create thumbnails of images.
• Lets you select thumbnail size.
• Thumbnails are generated in PNG image format.
• Direct URL, HTML code, and BB code for thumbnail is given.
• Similar tools: ShrinkTheWeb and W3Snapshot.

Check out Make A Thumbnail @ www.makeathumbnail.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

To use W3Snapshot, just enter the URL in the text field and click on ‘take snapshot’. The tool will then queue your request for processing or fetch a saved screenshot from their database, where you can download and use the photo. An API is also available for those who want to develop a tool around the service. The free service lets you download unlimited pictures with the website’s watermark, but you can pay a small fee to remove it.

W3Snapshot is a great alternative to  other website thumbnail generators that makes it easy for bloggers to attach pictures to their articles in seconds.
Feature:

• Free and Paid options available.
• Take screenshot of websites.
• API available.
• Signup to view your requested and saved screenshots.
• Similar Tools: ShrinkTheWeb.

Check out W3Snapshots @ hwww.w3snapshot.com

Thumbnail Zoom is a wonderful tool that comes as a browser add-on for Mozilla Firefox, versions 3 until the latest beta. It displays the enlarged photo of a thumbnail in a floating window. All you have to do to make the enlarged image appear is place the mouse pointer over the image’s thumbnail.

A number of popular sites are supported by the add-on including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Amazon, Picasa, Flickr, LinkedIn, Hi5, Twitpic, deviantART, PhotoBucket, and Wikipedia. To disable thumbnail magnifying on particular sites you can access the add-on’s preferences or click on its icon in the bottom right corner of Firefox.

The add-on’s settings also let you choose a time delay for the magnified image to appear and an activation key for it.

Features:

• A user friendly web tool.
• Comes as a browser add-on for Mozilla Firefox.
• Enlarges thumbnail images.
• Supports a number of popular websites.
• Similar tools: Hover-zoom, Photo Zoom, FacePAD and PrettySlide.

Check out Thumbnail Zoom @ addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/222516 Via Firefox Facts (By Umar from TechCityInc)

ShrinktheWeb just completed a massive re-launch packed with new features. One area that stood out in terms of functionality is the ease of publishing website thumbnails for beginners using the Screenshot Code Wizard. This tool allows allows you to customize your embed code by changing the size and the code type on the fly with more options unlocked for PRO accounts. A preview of the generated thumbnail is available within the wizard so that you can easily see what you are posting.

But the bulk of improvements are on the backend. A more powerful history and domain search were added so that thumbnails come in a snap. Only a few services can match the new speed of ShrinktheWeb artiin giving you thumbnails that you urgently need. A handy PDF file with a clear documentation on how to use Shrinktheweb was also released. All in all, ShrinktheWeb has brought a list of solid improvement to increase the speed and breadth of indexing thumbnails.

ShrinktheWeb is useful for just about anyone who needs to get a website screenshot in seconds. Free and paid accounts are still available although your PRO accounts now have to pay ShrinkheWeb per volume of images produced.

Features:

• Generating thumbnails made simple
• Free and PRO accounts available.
• Added Screenshot Code Wizards for easy embedding.
• Added better documentation for publishers.
• Support for 3rd Party software plugin.
• Choose different thumbnail sizes.
• Better search function.

Check out ShrinkTheWeb @ www.shrinktheweb.com

To create screenshots, sign up for an account and go to the “customize my link!“ section. Then input the URL, set the size of the screenshot and paste the generated code to your website. ShrinkTheWeb can also support bulk processing and multiple image sizes.

ShrinkTheWeb has free and paid account options available. The free Basic account allows you to submit 5000 new screenshot requests for websites that ShrinkTheWeb has not yet captured, and 250,000 fetches of previously captured sites. Power users and organizations can upgrade to PRO account with features such as more request allowance, specific page captures, full-length captures, custom-sized captures, refresh-on-demand, and many more.

ShrinktheWeb is the ultimate handy tool for bloggers and content managers who need screenshots quickly. In fact, we at MakeUseOf use this service a lot! Just check out our daily post of Cool Websites and Tools just like this for an example of how we use it.

Features:

• Generate thumbnail screenshot links for your website.
• Download plugins for WordPress, vBulletin, phpLD, Drupal, Django and other useful codes.
• Generates either HTML or Javascript codes.
• Choose the thumbnail size: micro, tiny, very small, small, large, and x-large.
• Upgrade to PRO service for more powerful features.

Check out ShrinkTheWeb @ www.shrinktheweb.com

To take a snapshot of a page simply paste URL into provided field and click on backup button. BackupURL then copies the snapshot onto its server and give you the shortened URL pointing to it.

Features:

• Take web page snapshots and store online.
• Take as many snapshots as you like.
• Access page via shortened url.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar websites: FreezePage and Iterasi.

Check Out BackupURL @ www.backupurl.com (via DownloadSquad.com)

Once Thumbizy generates thumbnail image and gives you a link from where the thumbnail can be downloaded using right click “save as” option. If you need you can just load the thumbnail from that link directly.

Features:

• Quickly generate thumbnail image for any website.
• Customize size: (very small-100 px, small-180 px, medium-250 px and big-360 px).
• Customize visible area and add reflection.
• Download and save thumbnail image on your computer.
• No registration needed.
• Similar websites: Thumbalizr, WebSnapr, SnapCasa and Picoshot.

Visit Thumbizy @ www.thumbizy.com (via online-tech-tips)

You can keep your personal startpage private or share it with others by forwarding them a link.

Features:

• Keep and access all of your favorite websites in one place from anywhere.
• Tag and organize websites (work sites, bills, blogs, anything!)
• Edit website titles and put your own
• Shrink site thumbnails down or make them huge, it’s up to you!
• Drag and re-arrange the order of the sites
• Google search box that lets you search straight from your page
• Your own URL: http://www.tizmos.com/yourusername
• Share your page with others by forwarding a link to your page

For more similar online StartPages reviewed previously go here.

Visit Tizmos @ www.tizmos.com

For advanced users SnapCasa is planning to release a new low cost website screenshot service with some extra features including the ability to capture any size snapshot (now there are only 4 sizes), option to capture thumbnail images in different formats and compression, and the ability to obtain real-time snapshots. Nonetheless, the current service will continue to be offered at no cost.

The implementation is quite simple, just copy the provided code to the place where you want the screenshots to appear and set code, size and url variables to the values you need.

Current Features:

• Snapshots available in four different sizes.
• There are no limitations in the number of screenshots you can capture.
• Use on multiple websites.
• Claims to have 99.9% uptime.
• There are no ads or watermarks on thumbnails.

Check out SnapCasa @ www.snapcasa.com