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

Tue Apr 27 12:25:41 EST 2010

But of course if you were using Ubuntu it's built in to the desktop; 
right click and resize images!
LOL
Brett

Mark KELLY wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>
>     ________________________________
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>     From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au
>     <mailto: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
>
>
>     --
>     Mark Kelly
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> Mark Kelly
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> McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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