Microsoft PowerToys has an Image Resizer that allows you to simply select one or more images and then Right Click > Resize.  Bydefault, the program will even create copies so as to not mess with the originals!  How awesome!

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Combine this with my favorite batch image renaming application Namexif and you’re good to go.

Also,  I just found out this little pearl of wisdom about native Windows Image Renaming

Every time I do this I remember why I didn’t go in to tech (per se).  Managing a network is bad enough, but I can’t imagine going back to having a room full of dead white boxes trying to bring them back from the dead.

All this empty drive space allows me to do some regular backups, though.  The friend didn’t lose anythinig crucial on the failed drive, but next time we won’t take chances.  It’ll be redundant thanks to MS SyncToy and a couple other items.

Anyways, if you’re curious, going from XP Pro SP1 to Pro SP3 requires 148 updates and counting, plus the SP2 and SP3 downloads.  FUN TIMES.

All my Google searches for how to edit the default list yielded nadda for Windows, so I did it myself.

1. Make sure PS is closed.
2. Navigate to Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CSx/Required
3. Make a duplicate of “Default New Doc Sizes.txt” so it says “Copy of Default New Doc Sizes.txt” – Safety step so you don’t foul up.
4. Open the file “Default New Doc Sizes.txt” in your best text editor, preferably something like Notepad++.  Windows Notepad will screw it up.
5. In my case, I copied from line 33-38 and pasted a copy of this on line 40, changing “Default screen sizes” to “banners” and changing the sizes accordingly.
6. Save, close, and then restart Photoshop! See your new sizes listed!

1. Simplified User Management and Permissions
2. Public, Private, or User’s Choice for files & folders
3. Easy User Server Space Setup – Default Layout for
4. Server Queue – groupthink files, tag clouds, general shared resources
5. Disk Imaging built in

My business has 14 employees, 2 laptops, 3 terminals, and 1 Windows Business server in the closet. We use this network for the following things:

• QuickBooks – running our relatively large QB Pro database on a server instead of a end-user terminal means that in the busiest billing time of the day that we don’t have one persons computer slow to a crawl. QuickBooks says they support “servers” but what they really mean is “one persons computer can act as the QB server”. We completely floored the Tech Support people on their staff by using the term “server” as it is meant to be used, not as their typical moron customer. QB does not offer any semblance of a server-side service or application. Period. We pay for one extra license to have this service. This means the server has to be up, logged in QB loaded, and locked out.
• DentLab for QuickBooks – this is a case-management software package for our lab. We purchased this because of the low cost, only to find out at the point-of-purchase that we have to pay an additional $250/month to receive ANY tech support (phone or email or otherwise) or to get any of the software updates. Beyond that, this is a symbiotic program that runs congruent with QuickBooks. It also runs on our server. See, any instance of this program running on any computer has to at least reference the primary instance running alongside QB. So, we have an extra license of this as well. If you’re reading this to find out info about DentaLab for QB, then don’t buy it.
• Storage – we have every intent of using this as a storage space for every person in the lab – but we can’t manage permissions without a degree in Computer Science. For example, I am an Administrator, and I have an account name. I have a folder on the server. For permissions on that folder, I added ALL SUPERVISORS and ME and made Read/Write/Change the option of choice – still can’t access it when I’m logged in from somewhere else.

In my opinion, the ideal small business server solution would be a simplified permissions scheme that allows the admin (or any admin) to quickly log in (remotely if necessary) and add news users, the new users default folder, disk storage quota, and email (if necessary). Then, the user should be given the choice of storing files on the server, where, and whether they’re publicly available.

Secondly, there should be a public queue system that allows specified members of whatever group to assign files to the group, tag them, search them, index them, etc… quickly and easily find collaborative information.

Finally, there should be automatic scheduling of imaging of groups, files, folders, or the whole disk.

That’s my two cents.