2010
From the Tips Box: Xbox Controller Hacks, High-Res iTunes Artwork, and Healthier Popcorn
by maxxymeGrab iTunes Artwork for Music, Movies, and TV Shows
Photo by Photo Mojo
Matthew wote in with a roundabout way to retrieve blocked high-res iTunes artwork:
It’s been a real drag not being able to get at the high-resolution artwork since Apple blocked our attempts (Ex: The Josher Method). But there is a new found way that is available to anyone that owns an Apple TV or possibly a regular Mac! While browsing my Apple TV, I noticed that when a movie, TV show, or song is selected, there is a high-res image of the album/cover art displayed to the left. This got me thinking, it has to be stored somewhere for it to show it. I did some digging and found a folder in the file system for just that purpose. Full-sized art in unencrypted jpg format is “cached” in separate folders on the hard drive.
With a SSH or FTP-enabled Apple TV, navigate to /mnt/Scratch/private/tmp/Front Row/Images
There, folders contain the cover art of all music/TV shows/movies that was selected in the last browsing session!
There will also be the low-res images there, but ignore them. The high-res images will be named original.jpg.
2006
FGWndGrab | Redllar's software
by lz00zl (via)FGWndGrab
A seemingly simple screengrabber utility, with just the right amount of advanced options. The settings dialog says it all, really.
Features include 98, 2K, and XP support, 6 kinds of grabbing (control, client area, window, desktop, virtual screen, and rectangular area), save to clipboard, save to file (multiple image file types supported), multi-monitor awareness, thumbnailing, watermarking, image tagging, image uploading, and a small resources footprint.
And for your skin shots there's automatic background filling, either with the color of your choice or with "transparent pixels":
2005
Pearl Crescent Page Saver
by lz00zl & 29 others (via)Pearl Crescent Page Saver is a free extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you save an image of a web page to a file in PNG format. Options let you control whether images are saved at full size or scaled down to a smaller size (by default, images are saved at 25% of the original page size). The Page Saver extension uses the new canvas feature that was introduced in Firefox 1.5.
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