TOKI WOKI. 

Back in 2008 I would spend some of my Sat­ur­day after­noons sit­ting in a Laun­dro­mat, wait­ing for my clothes to smell good. I quickly real­ized these moments were per­fect to bring my lap­top with me and code. One of the first AIR apps I wrote was Shrink O’Matic, now you know where the name comes from.

It quickly became suc­cess­ful. It now has been down­loaded 168,000+ times, a best-seller of sorts. Except it’s free.

But with suc­cess comes feed­back, and with feed­back comes fea­ture sug­ges­tions. Most of them were included through updates, some of them didn’t make the cut. Prob­a­bly because of me being lazy or because of AIR’s limitations.

Then AIR 2 came out, then I learnt Robot­legs… So I re-wrote it from scratch! Intro­duc­ing Shrink O’Matic 2, the same quick and sim­ple app but with more fea­tures and a nicer theme.

Here’s what’s fresh off the oven:

• Drop fold­ers onto the app: every image in it (or in its sub-folders) will be shrinked.
• New “Rota­tion” set­tings pane: either use a spe­cific angle or let the app read your images’ EXIF data and decide what to do.
• Cus­tom name option: choose exactly what the out­put name will be using your own pat­tern and inject­ing the orig­i­nal file’s name (using $name) and/or its posi­tion in the queue (using $num).
• PNG files now keep their trans­parency when shrinked.
• Water­mark: water­mark your images, even choose where to place the overlay.
• Drop files onto the app while it’s pro­cess­ing, no problemo!
• No more dimen­sion limits.
• Shiny new theme!

But! I decided some fea­tures had to go. I removed the “name pre­view” that used to be in the sta­tus bar. I also removed the abil­ity to drop images from web pages. If you need these fea­tures and want them back, make sure to drop a com­ment and let me know!

That’s it, go get it!

Remem­ber Shrink O’Matic, the “oh, so easy to use” image shrinker for Win­dows, Mac and Linux? Intro­duc­ing Shrink O’Mobile, the “oh, so easy to use” image shrinker for Android!

Because cam­eras on phones take big pic­tures and because you might want to send smaller/lighter versions, Shrink O’Mobile is here to help out. Just launch the app, choose the way you want your image to be shrunk, pick your image and BOOM! Your fresh, smaller, new ver­sion is instantly stored in your cam­era roll. Easy as pie.

And did I men­tion the app is free? It is.

Done.

My 3 week trip with the trans-siberian and trans-mongolian is now over. I’ve seen many places, done many things and met a lot of peo­ple… But I’m not good at story-telling so I’ll let these pic­tures talk for me.

Call me lazy.

That was cool.

Want to see more of it?

By the way

The hack­ing has now been fixed and every­thing should be exactly as it was. Also, I’ve updated Boks’ javascript files (thanks to a com­ment and e-mails by Dar­rell Fos­ter Kir­sop), but you prob­a­bly don’t care anyway.