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ipod shuffle software update? — #9

yeha, i had lot's of problems with my shuffle. ( i returned it a week later ) what happened was, after i pressed play, it would only play about 4 or 5 songs and it wouldn't play an…
MacNN Troubleshooting by ApplCmptrDood

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #1

Up until now, I've been pretty happy maintaining two directories for my website locally (/images/ and /thumbnails/). AppleScript has made the process even easier for batch-process …
MacNN Troubleshooting by selowitch

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #2

I've got a slightly different version of that scheme deployed on one site, which uses GD to resize a photo on upload and generate a thumbnail that's stored elsewhere. (It's a slowe…
MacNN Troubleshooting by Meijin

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #3

I wouldn't do this if I were you, to be honest. At the absolute least I wouldn't have them generated on the fly every time; scaling images is usually very processor-intensive and s…
MacNN Troubleshooting by Millennium

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #4

Is it possible to use GD to resize a thumbnail, and save this thumbnail to a directory? It's funny and convenient this thread exists, because I was just about to look into this mys…
MacNN Troubleshooting by besson3c

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #5

Quote: Originally Posted by besson3c Is it possible to use GD to resize a thumbnail, and save this thumbnail to a directory? It's funny and convenient this thread exists, becaus…
MacNN Troubleshooting by Meijin

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #6

Fascinating. I think for my purposes I'm persuaded that the best approach is to auto-generate the thumbnails when the images are first uploaded. But would that entail triggering s…
MacNN Troubleshooting by selowitch

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #7

Quote: Originally Posted by selowitch BTW, a bit of tangent: I like to put the /images/ and /thumbnails/ directories on the same level, so that my code can infer the location o…
MacNN Troubleshooting by Meijin

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #8

I have a script that uses GD to pull it off. And I use multiviews to pass variables to the script. So I don't actually have an images directory, but rather images.php which handl…
MacNN Troubleshooting by registered_user

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #9

A lot of content management systems use a form for uploading an image that calls the creation of thumbnails. You could also simply have an administrative page with a call to search…
MacNN Troubleshooting by bluedog

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #10

I'll throw in a vote for ImageMagick (convert). its on most servers and is easy to call from php. this is especially useful if you are not the one uploading images but have say a c…
MacNN Troubleshooting by mania

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #11

I actually have a image asset management system that I wrote, The best on the fly thumbnailer is by far phpthumb. you can apply it directly in your code, have images resized, water…
MacNN Troubleshooting by inkhead

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #12

What I suppose I'm still unclear on is when does all of this occur? Does it happen every time an image is uploaded? If so, how is it triggered? Or, is it done occasionally—e.g., wh…
MacNN Troubleshooting by selowitch

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #13

If your form is handled by a php script, you'd need something in that script to handle the images that are passed with the form data. The image is passed in its own $_FILES array.…
MacNN Troubleshooting by registered_user

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #14

This might serve as an example -- http://minigal.dk/ This is a little php script. You upload full-size images to a folder and the script presents them as a webpage. It's really pr…
MacNN Troubleshooting by tomrock

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #15

Quote: Originally Posted by tomrock Maybe you could look at their code and see how they build the thumbnails? I'm sure I could. But I prefer to work backwards, starting with …
MacNN Troubleshooting by selowitch

Thumbnails on the Fly? — #16

You could write a script called thumb.php. So a request for thumb.php?file=mypic.jpg will serve up mypic.jpg in thumbnail form. You can take that a step further too. You can use…
MacNN Troubleshooting by registered_user

tiger won't install on ibook g3? — #1

Hello all. I recently purchased a used iBook G3 for $300 on ebay to have as a second computer. Every time I try to install Tiger it freezes during the second installation screen, r…
MacNN Troubleshooting by gloglo

tiger won't install on ibook g3? — #2

Hi..I have a ibook g3/366 firewire Clamshell with Tiger runnig well...startup from the installer disk and run Disk Utility (FILE - DISK UTILITY) and repair permissions on the targ…
MacNN Troubleshooting by marcelog4

tiger won't install on ibook g3? — #5

How much RAM is in the iBook? While you might be able to install Tiger––especially over firewire––it won't boot with less than 256 MB. (Panther will boot with 128 MB, but not Tig…
MacNN Troubleshooting by Dave B

iPod default headphones — #1

My headphones that came with my iPod were kind of destroyed...doesn't matter how I bought the in-ear headphones to replace them, but was disapointed with the lack of bass, and o…
MacNN Troubleshooting by Flatline
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