Does anyone have opinions or a link to this?

[Ron May]

Below is a description from "Completely Free Software" newsletter.

Shell Extension -- Win9x/ME/XP (5 doves)

Shell Extension is a right-click context menu (shell) extension that
displays, converts & prints images directly from Windows Explorer. It
features support for 15 file formats (GIF, JPG, BMP, TIF, PNG, TGA, PSD,
PCX, PBM, PGM, PPM, PCD, BW, RGB & SGI), requires no resources unless
used, and more. This is a terrific little utility for easy thumbnail
access to your images, and is specially useful if you have a digital
camera. Right click on any supported image through Explorer and a
thumbnail of the image appears. You are then given an option to convert
it to another file format or to print it. We did find that some GIF
images did not display correctly and, when this happened, the corrupted
display also rolled over into the conversion and printing commands when
the same corrupted file was converted and/or printed. It does not
support animated GIF images. However, in the 99 percent of cases where
is does produce a legible thumbnail, Shell Extension does a credible job
of both printing it (at its fullsize) and converting it. There are no
controls offered for JPG compression, or for any quality/size variations
in any format but, even with this limitation, it does a remarkable job
and is well worth adding to your toolkit. Shell Extension is a "must
have" utility for anyone with a digital camera who has lots of images on
their hard drive that don't have descriptive filenames (DSCF0001.JPG,
DSCF0002.JPG, DSCF0003.JPG, etc). Grab a copy, you won't regret it!
Access this 962kB download from:

<SUBSCRIBER LINK ONLY>

<RANT> I've been getting the CFS newsletter for years, and it was a
major source of freeware info for me. When the website went to a paid
subscription only, I thought it was the height of hypocrisy on the
part of the site owner, and I couldn't reward that tactic. </RANT>

Obviously, I tried "Googling" for it for it first (as I usually do if
a CFS description sounds interesting,) but that resulted in no matches
(If too specific,) thousands of matches (using the most relevant
keywords in the description,) or a few irrelevant matches (using
things like "Shell Extension" and "962k" - That DID get the CFS link,
but everything else was off the mark.)

If anyone knows where the file might be found, or if they've tried it
and have opinions on it, I'd appreciate the feedback.

Ron M.

 

[Steven Burn]

If anyone knows where the file might be found, or if they've tried it
and have opinions on it, I'd appreciate the feedback.

http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Ron May]

http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/

Thanks!

Actually, I feel a bit sheepish. Soon after posting, I did a search
on "shell" at Pricelessware home and found the title without a space.
(Shoulda tried it as one word on Google but didn't. Firmtools.com came
up as the first listing! - DOH!)

Ron M.