How to Batch Extract All Website Images with ImageAssistant

Following https://blogmymix.blogspot.com/2022/10/imageassistant-batch-image-downloader.html

To see the Chrome Extension in action 

ImageAssistant Batch Image Downloader

Pullywood ImageAssistant

It Is a chrome extension for sniffing, analyzing and downloading images from web page, 

it's good compatibility allows users to easily extract images loaded by flash or ajax.

You can get it from Chrome App Store:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbjbempljhcmhlfpfacalomonjpalpko

http://www.pullywood.com/ImageAssistant/shortcut.html

Enjoyed by 300K users to this day

currently in Version 1.66.6

Updated July 16, 2022

Size 3.27MiB

It works wonder for bulk downloading pinterest, instagram feeds

and in its basic feature you can restrict the download from a certain size (to avoid getting lower resolution pictures)

ImageAssistant is a browser extension running on chromium (developed in the chrome environment) and its derivative browsers 

the extensions provides a variety of filtering methods to assist users in selecting and bulk downloading pictures from a selected page.

The extension includes 3 extraction modes:

- the basic mode "Extract the picture on this page" (default shortcut key: )

Only for picture labels, label background pictures and pictures loaded in other ways on this page

- the enhanced mode "Prefetch link"

Will prefetch the links in the page on this basis 

- the "Analyze prefetch data", 

To get more this mode will further analyze the prefetched data on the basis of "Prefetch Link" and try to obtain the image data in the DOM (if the link is a web page)

reface, prequel and werbleapp to add fun to your instagram feed

Remember ToonApp? Well, it is old story now

If you want to turbo boost your Instagram with crazy animation, style conversion, and face swap ; there are plenty of fresh apps to do just that, see for yourself and these apps are still free.

werbleapp

Adding some peps on photos, by transforming them into mini looping animation

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg4A4IHJymL/

Pretty amazing result

How much money can you make with patreon?

A formula

https://blog.patreon.com/figuring-out-how-much-you-might-make-on-patreon

How many followers?
From these followers, how many are active?
How many of these followers could convert to patrons?

Let's have an example - Teal Swan:
Current subscriptions on youtube - 589K
15% are active - 88K
7$ by Patrons (on average) - Teal might cash 618K per month!

Jessica Nigri:
Instagram followers : 3.7m (these don't convert easily to Patrons)
only 0.1% of instagram followers in average will convert
Youtube followers: 1.2m
15% are active - 180K
7$ by Patrons (on average) - Jessica might cash 1.2m per month!

Now the actual revenue for Miss Nigri is coming from 2736 Patrons - with an estimate of 19K per month - source: https://www.patreon.com/JessicaNigri

Bonus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ye7Ri8S1t0

Who are the Top Patreon Creators?

https://creatorhype.com/top-patreon-creators/

Bear Warrior on Vimeo

Bear Warrior on Vimeo: Bear clad north man, frost giants, blood and axes... what more could you ask for?

Done in Photoshop with a heavy use of their natural media brushes. Read more about the development of this piece in my blog post: http://blog.denmanrooke.com/2012/01/bear-warrior.html

24h comics

24-Hour Comics Day is an event held around the world which challenges writers and artists to create a full 24-page comic in 24 consecutive hours.

This dare was introduced by Scott Mc Cloud in 1990


More information at 24hourcomicsday

Of course you can do this dare any day you want - but every year (usually in October) there are organized challenges over the World - check twitter.com/24hcdgr  

This Year 2012, it's October, 20th.

Note this dare will push you to the limit (both physically and  mentally) - after you get the topic you'll have to invent a story, write the dialogs, then draw 24 pages continuously -  and to tell the truth in the end, you will feel very shaky, delirious and probably hungry. But the feeling of having made a full 24 pages comics is overwhelming.

Some 24h comics samples :
http://www.sarahgasser.ch/index.php?/comic/24h-comic/
http://herebemongoose.blogspot.com/2010/03/happy-easter-bunnies-story.html
http://letsgetadditives.blogspot.com/2011/10/curse-of-24h-comics.html
http://24hcomicinstudiokamsterdam.blogspot.com/
http://12forever.blogspot.com/2010/03/24h-comics.html
http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=24-Hour%20Comics

A special mention for this guy (Alec Longstreth) - who has made it 10 times!
http://www.lulu.com/shop/alec-longstreth/24x7-a-decade-of-24-hour-comics/paperback/product-6515737.html

Impressive!

Final note it seems that the French have done better ... http://23hbd.com/

3 Ways to create a new font from scratch

More detail on this method at http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/inkscape-dings/

If you don't have Inkscape or find this too difficult then you can use the "quick and easy" Handwriting font creator: "Free online tool to create a vector font from your own handwriting."


Now dedicated for  t the hard core geek there's "FontForge" but Warning! this tool is not really user friendly - but a lot powerful, that is ... if you manage to use it.

UNetbootin

Tired of burning cd or dvd for a Linux live CD ?!
Have a look at UnetBootin - this little tool will install your Linux iso file on any USB key (assuming you have enough free space and you're ready to format it) - you will save a cd and it will be faster and less noisy ... what you've got to lose ?!

Work for Windows and Linux  : UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads

Installing mint-x "Julia" on an USB stick

I'm currently using Linux Mint Helena 8 on my laptop ; and since Linux Mint Julia 10 RC is now available , the idea grew to install Julia on a spare 4GB usb stick I had in my drawer.... Here's how it went :

• Downloaded the Linux Mint 10 32bit iso torrent file at 10h30
• Burned the cd 
• booted on the CD - this distros is absolutely gorgeous - so I tried various applications and finally decided it worth a shot.
• selected install from the Live CD
• selected destination as the /dev/sdb 3.8GB filesystem showed by the installer 
• around 70% I noticed an update grub event happened
• the installation was completed at 11h09

I rebooted - then press F10 and selected in the laptop bios a restart from USB Hard drive and ... 

I was very disappointed to have a black screen while the fan were blowing like crazy, I waited 5Mn ... it was no help.

Then I ejected the usb stick, planning to reboot on my old  Linux Mint Helena 8, but then something worse happened, there was a grub rescue error - also in text mode, requesting a missing filesystem.

I re-insterted the usb stick and reboot - and there it was a grub loader offering to boot either from 2.6.35 Julia on the /dev/sdb or to boot from Helena 2.6.31 on /dev/sda ... and it worked just fine.

The USB stick isn't flagged as bootable, and the grub loader was modified on the existing Linux Mint Helena - and I can't help but to wonder why ?! 

But nevertheless Linux Mint 10 "Julia" is absolutely gorgeous, the "brushed steel" is perfect, all the icons are like little gems (especially the firefox icon) - the overall experience is absolutely outstanding, I'm currently running it from my 4GB USB key - and still have about 1.1GB of free space available ...

What is "BlogThis!" (a great bookmarklet)

Today I'll share a little secret on how I write my blog.

In the past I used to bookmark links I wanted to post about using delicious.com and then came back later and start posting about it... the main problem was that usually when I had some spare time to write a post I completely forgot many links and or couldn't find them back in my delicious account (which tend to be a mess) and when I finally found or remembered it the "hot news" wasn't hot anymore ...

Now, Thanks to a bookmarklet found on the "blogger help" I can basically bookmark link directly to a blogger draft, and therefor the first step of hot-linking to a "hot news" or a typing a few word on the spot is done. And that ... really makes my blogging experience a lot more efficient.

What is BlogThis! ?

deviantART muro

Not the first attempt at offering a drawing platform using Flash - deviantART muro is the new kid on the block and it may actually be a good bet from DeviantArt - because of their strong community of talented artists.

check for yourself :
http://fav.me/d2vx5sb
http://fav.me/d2ypkch
http://fav.me/d2ykx35

A nice tutorial is available

Maybe the fact that some brushes or advanced features have to be purchased is a bit disapointing.

Similar attempts already mentioned in this blog includes :
http://blogmymix.blogspot.com/2009/09/odosketch.html
or the defunct (!?) http://sketchory.com/

De-duplicate with Fslint (little review)

When free space starts to shrink - you can either erase some files, or compress them or archive them on cd, dvd - or use fslint (Author: Padraig Brady) - a very cool tool (for Linux) that will scan your hd and track duplicate files.

I was a bit suspicious before using this tool - because usually I know where my files are etc ... but I decide to make a test with my external HD (used for backups)

To make the test more interesting I noted the free space before launching fslint and it shows 8.1 GB free.

Here below is the "fslint-gui" main screen - on the top is shown the search path - and below are the various options - by default it looks for "duplicates" now press the Find button (below)

The search process is pretty long, checking all the files with various methods - to make sure there are really duplicates files.

It took around 20-30 mn in my example.








When all "duplicate files" are finally displayed - you can delete extra files, right click and open them - to have a look, save the list of duplicate files and ... the cool feature "Merge" them - which mean fslint will keep multiple version of the same files - but hardlink them - so the space is used only once.

Tip : Now the funny thing with Merge is that the feature is a bit counter intuitive - because if you select 2 files to be "Merged" - these 2 files will actually be excluded for the Merge ... so make sure you toggle your selection before "Merging"









Result is pretty impressive, after "Merging" all my duplicates - see below my Free space jumped to almost 19GB (remember I had only 8GB to begin with) - pretty cool stuff!

You can find other reviews for fslint here and there.

"Jackson Pollock" simulator

With a flash application (made in 2003) below you can happily move your mouse around the screen, leaving a trail of paint, and left click to change colors, ... the result is an abstract paint that looks a lot like what Jackson Pollock was painting during "The Springs period".

Paint like J. Pollock From the website jacksonpollock.org