[Year 12 IT Apps] R.I.P. Floppy

[Mark KELLY]

hehehe.  Dog bless people with digital cameras factory-set to 10 megapixels
by default, and they don't know how to read the instruction manual to change
it...

You need a utility like XNVIEW, which is free and brilliant.  It lets you do
batch operations easily, like resize to a fixed size, a percentage of the
original size etc. IT can process thousands of images in minutes. Visit
http://xnview.com/.

I can't live without it. It also does neat jobs like create a page of
thumbnailed images linked to the big image, and batch-apply watermarks to
images.

Cheers
Mark

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Biggins, Leanne D <
biggins.leanne.d at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi, since Mark mentions storage space, this comes to mind.  In a junior
> class, we have an assignment that requires students to access a bank of
> school produced photos on a particular topic, and copy 10 or so to their
> work.  The problem is that the teacher that took these photos did so with
> his new whiz bang camera, and he saved them (134) as bigger than 3 MB images
> EACH.  The photos are taking ages to download even as thumbnails and then 10
> or so need to be selected and copied to the student's work.  This is a
> painfully slow process.  The teacher of the class has asked if there is an
> easy way for him to access the images, then re save them IN BULK as a
> smaller file size.  I don't know the answer.  Please help.
> Leanne Biggins
> Heathmont College
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark KELLY
> Sent: Tue 27/04/2010 7:54 AM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] R.I.P. Floppy
>
>
> "Fully 12 years after the original G3 iMac dropped support for the 3.5-inch
> floppy disk, Sony has finally decided to stop making them. The reason is a
> lack of demand. The surprise is that it took so long.
>
> If you still rely on the massive 1.44MB of space to move files quickly
> around between far-flung computers, don't worry: Sony will keep the
> production lines running until March 2011, giving you a year to stockpile
> the things. You won't be alone. Apparently, "lack of demand" is somewhat
> relative, and Sony sold a jaw-dropping 12 million floppies in Japan during
> 2009."
>
> Read More
> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/sony-announces-the-death-of-the-floppy-disk/#ixzz0mFIZeePW
>
>
> --
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-- 
Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085
School Phone +613 8520 9000
School Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au

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