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BackupURL: Online Snapshot Taker

kaly — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:05:11 +0000

BackupURL is an online snapshot taker that allows you to create exact copy of any web page and store it online. The copy will be available even if the actual page is down or changed. This is useful if you want to take point-in-time snapshots of fast-changing webpages and keep them for reference.

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)

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Thumbizy: Website Thumbnail Creator

kaly — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:40:14 +0000

Thumbizy is an online website thumbnail creator that can almost instantly generate thumbnail image for any website. All it asks for is the website URL (no registration or signup). You can also choose the size of the thumbnail image, ranging from 100 to 360 px. in width.

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)

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Tizmos: Thumbnails of Your Favorite Sites on One Page

kaly — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:14:23 +0000

Tizmos is a start page that shows you little thumbnails of your favorite websites. You can add sites, tag them, and drag them around. You can think of it as a web-based alternative to Opera speed dial feature that also incorporates tagging and social features. It’s really useful for people that use multiple computers (work, home PC, school, etc…) and want to kee all frequntly accessed sites in one place for easy access.

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

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SnapCasa : Website Screenshot Generator

Aibek — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:29:36 +0000

SnapCasa is a free website screenshot generator. Free thumbnails are available in four sizes, they do not include any watermarks or ads, and there are no limits on usage. Snapshots are captured fast and updated on a regular basis. SnapCasa claims to have 99.9% server uptime, which is the largest determining factor for new users switching from their current screenshot provider.

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

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WebSnapr: Free Website Thumbnail Screenshots

Aibek — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:11:23 +0000

WebSnapr is a free website thumbnail generator that lets you capture and display screenshots for almost any website.

Feature Overview

Choose between different thumbnails sizes: micro (90×70), small (202×152), medium (400×300), or large (640×480).
WebSnapr Addons / Plugins: Wordpress plugins, browser addons, browser bookmarklet, windows live writer plugin, Drupal modules, and PostNuke plugins. Very simple to implement.
Over 300 million generated thumbnails (according to Websnapr).

Testing WebSnappr

You should see a “400×300″ screenshot of MakeUseOf.com.

Check out WebSnapr @ www.websnapr.com

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Picoshot: Instant Thumbnail For Any Website

Aibek — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:58:41 +0000

PicoShot Thumbnails provides webmasters with an easy and quick way to generate and display homepage thumbnails for any website. PicoShot: “… perfect for directory sites & search result pages, site bookmarks or anywhere a quick visual picture of another site is needed.” FREE.

Implementation is fairly straightforward and doesn’t require any registration. There are two ways to generate thumbnails:

Quick Overview

Extremely easy and fast to implement.
Supports only top level domains (www.website1.com, www.website2.net).
Thumbnail Dimensions (in pixels): 120 (height) by 90 (width).
If some thumbnail requested for the first time, it may take some time before Picoshot generates it.
For more details go to service FAQ page.

Testing Picoshot

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Check out Picoshot @ www.picoshot.com

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Thumbalizr: Website Screenshots

Aibek — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:27:24 +0000

Lets you take thumbnail screenshots of any webpage and save it on your PC. No sign-up required, just enter the website URL and press the “thumb it” button.

Thumbalizr Features

Thumbnail modes: get screen-size or full page screenshots.
Download screenshots in different resolutions: 320, 640, 800, 1024 or 1280 pixel width. (see image above)
Get thumbalizr bookmarklet: Firefox and Internet Exporer.
For developers: Use Thumbalizr API to display website screenshots on your website.

Check out Thumbalizr @ [www.thumbalizr.com]

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