From the idea of Juan Xavier of websnapr I started yesterday to write my own screenshot capture engine, and it is working already very nice. I registered a new domain called thumboo (thumbnails and a cool "oo" as it is in Google or whatever).

With thumboo you are able to create several screenshots. There are four different thumbnails starting at 92x70 pixel. The screenshot is captured at 1024x768 pixel and resized to the smaller version. One screenshot is done at a screen size of 1024x768 pixel, but you will loose the bottom of the web page. For this reason I have added one more screenshot that will show the full page, see these examples below.

I'm open for any idea, bug or missing feature, visit http://www.thumboo.com today!

I will add more features like screenshot history and subscriptions to configure the interval screenshots should be taken. I hope this service will be interesting for anyone who is building web sites.

6 Comments

• Christian said Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:27:00 AM

  This is really cool, can you share some technical info/thoughts?

• gavinjoyce said Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:19:36 PM

  I am currently using thumboo.com on www.dotnetkicks.com. Thanks

• enkafan said Friday, October 27, 2006 4:54:22 PM

  Hey Michael, are you going to be writing up anything on how you did this? I wrote one myself a while ago that was simply a wrapper around Webshot.exe but I became concerned with my server being open for attack points. With webshot being a wrapper around IE that basically opens up your webserver to a whole world of trouble if there are any zero day exploits out there.

• interactive said Friday, November 17, 2006 3:50:08 PM

  @gavinjoyce: yes, you are right. It was using thumboo while WebSnapr was not working... and while I was writing on my post. @enkafan: I was running the application in a trusted environment with less user rights. And I moved it in a virtual machine where I could reset it if necessary. ;) Michael

• Ren said Saturday, November 18, 2006 3:27:12 AM

  Hey.... how's the rest of your code coming along with Thumboo? It looks fantastic! Note the contact and subcribe links on the thumboo site dont work... are you the right person to contact?

• interactive said Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:53:19 AM

  @Ren: yes, you can contact me if you have any question. Michael