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- IrFanView: How to Batch Resize Images
- Google Gives Wearable Tech a Try with 'Android Wear' OS
- Column: Bring Back the Decentralized Internet
- SteelSeries Sensei Wireless Gaming Mouse Now Available to Pre-Order
- Corsair Blitzes Budget Market with Three Affordable Carbide Cases
- Newegg Daily Deals: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit, WD Green 4TB HDD, and More!
- Micron and Crucial Toss M550 SSD Series into High Speed Storage Market
- AMD Provides Performance Figures for Thief's Mantle Patch
IrFanView: How to Batch Resize Images Posted: 18 Mar 2014 02:18 PM PDT Resize multiple images at once for free with IrFanViewResizing images can be a monotonous task, especially, if you're trying to change the resolution/size of more than 100 images. Luckily free batch imaging software IrfanView can batch resize photos quickly and easily. For those who don't know what batch processing is, it's taking a group of photos and editing them all at once using the same set of editing commands. For example, if you want to edit a group of 1920x1080 images and resize them to 1280x720 or simply want smaller-sized images to email/store on a small USB stick, you can have IrfanView reduce the size of all the images at the same time, so you don't have to do it for each individual photo. Considering the program is free to use, we wanted to show you how you can quickly save time and energy editing your photos. Step 1: Go to www.irfanview.com and click on the Download link in the left hand column. Step 2: Choose the host you want to download from. We chose TechSpot and clicked on the TechSpot-Download IrfanView link. Step 3: You'll be sent to the TechSpot website. To start your download click on the blue Download Now button. Step 4: Run the IrfanView installer. Step 5: Launch IrfanView and click File then click on Batch Conversion/Rename… Step 6: This window should appear now. Select the folder of images you want to process from the Look in box (For images to be batch-processed, they all need to be in the same folder together). Step 7: Once the folder is selected, you can choose which images you want to process by selecting the image and hitting the Add button, this will add the images to the batch queue. Step 8: Click on the Advanced button to customize your preferences for processing the selected images. Click Save Settings to save your current preferences. These preferences will be saved as an INI file. Once you're done click the OK button and you will exit the Advanced menu window. Step 9: Now you can batch process the images by clicking on Start Batch. Note: By default, the processed images will be sent to your C: Drive's TEMP Folder. You can change this location in the Output tab. Once you start the batch, this window pop up and tells you when it's completed. To exit this window click on Exit Batch. Other helpful IrfanView editing tips:Changing the file type of an image: You can also change the file type of an image by clicking on the Output Format drop-down menu. IrfanView supports a multitude of popular photo formats, which include TIFF, JPEG, GIF, RAW, and PNG to name a few. Adjusting image quality: An image's quality can be adjusted by clicking on the Options menu. The quality can be adjusted with the slider at the top of the menu in case your original image files are too big (the lower the setting, the smaller the file size will be). |
Google Gives Wearable Tech a Try with 'Android Wear' OS Posted: 18 Mar 2014 11:43 AM PDT |
Column: Bring Back the Decentralized Internet Posted: 18 Mar 2014 11:32 AM PDT Keep the Internet old schoolIt's crazy to think of how this whole Internet age got started. Instead of networking as we know it, you asked a guy named Jon Postel for an address. If you wanted email, you ran a mail server. Angry Birds looked terrible on the PDP-11, but at least it was two-player. Image from reactual.com In those days, you couldn't buy services or watch ads in exchange for access. What that meant was the 'net was social, cooperative, and decentralized. If you wanted to put up ill-thought-out drunken selfies, you had to put up a server to host them, usually with the help of your local geek. It was more work, but it meant you controlled your data. Not Google, Facebook, or the NSA. The Paleonet was a strange place, but it was something we built together. It was a place without click-through agreements or our lives being tracked and tallied in the databases of marketers and governments. It's time to get that back. Between copyright insanity, contracts that turn everyone into felons, and massive spying on service providers, it's time to give up on centralized services and start looking to each other. There is nothing—not a thing—we host elsewhere on the net that we couldn't provide to each other through community server sharing. It's how we all did it before we lost our privacy. It's the only way to get control of our online existence back. It means going in with I've been doing this for 15 years. It's great, knowing that we're a group of friends helping each other. I doubt my buddy M is spying on me on behalf of my government, or Nike. Not so sure about Facebook. |
SteelSeries Sensei Wireless Gaming Mouse Now Available to Pre-Order Posted: 18 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT |
Corsair Blitzes Budget Market with Three Affordable Carbide Cases Posted: 18 Mar 2014 10:33 AM PDT |
Newegg Daily Deals: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit, WD Green 4TB HDD, and More! Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:04 AM PDT Top Deal: Come April 8th, planes will fall out of the sky, street lights will quit working, and it's going to be complete anarchy in the streets! Wait, that was Y2K, and none of that stuff actually happened. Okay, so come April 8th, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP, and depending on who you talk to, it will either be no big deal or a major security crisis. Either way, there are newer, more securer OSes available. Don't want to jump all the way to Windows 8? That's fine and dandy -- today's top deal is for Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit (OEM) for $80 with free shipping (normally $100 - use coupon code: [EMCYTZT58783]). With Windows 7, you can watch the April 8 deadline come and go with a hearty yawn. Other Deals: Acer 27-inch WQHD 6ms (GTG) HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor for $350 with free shipping (normally $400 - use coupon code: [EMCYTZT58789]) EVGA SuperClocked GeForce GTX 760 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 Video Card for $250 with free shipping Kingston DataTraveler Generation 4 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive for $15 with free shipping (normally $20 - use coupon code: [EMCPGWF49]) WD Green 4TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.50-inch Internal Hard Drive for $155 with free shipping (normally $165 - use coupon code: [EMCPGWF29]) |
Micron and Crucial Toss M550 SSD Series into High Speed Storage Market Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:29 AM PDT |
AMD Provides Performance Figures for Thief's Mantle Patch Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:34 AM PDT |
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