Zack Rippy

I’ve always been a fan of Microsoft’s Power Toys applications. They’re quick and dirty productivity or enhancement tools. They are (were) tools by Microsoft developers that were made available “as-is” without official support from Microsoft itself. One of my favorites was the Image Resizer. It offered an easy way to resize images from your right-click menu for email and quick jobs when you don’t want to fool with Photoshop or Gimp and just need to resize a picture. It also allowed you to batch re-size many files at once. Microsoft has not yet released any Power Toys for Vista.

Enter VSO Image Resizer. This great little application does everything its Power Toys counterpart did and more. It offers many more configurable image sizes, lets you choose to overwrite or create copies, choose to keep EXIF information and anything else I need.

It’s not a full-fledged photo application, and that is exactly what I wanted.

It resizes pictures quickly and effortlessly and it has become indispensable to me.

Did I mention that it is free?

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