Apps and Web Services – Share & resize your photos
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GreenCloud printer is the latest ObviousIdea’s app, and we are proud of it. The green pdf software is available to download since the end of December. Therefore, we have at least one full month ( january 2012 ) to make a first list of the statistic data.
GreenCloud printer usage In January 2012 :
‘k’ means you need to multiply by 1000 to get the exact total.
116k pages printed. In average, the printed document has 2,7 pages
15k pages not printed
2k pages sent by email
8k users ran the software 1 time
5,6k users used the software several times in the month.
91% of print jobs are really printed to a physical printer
7% of print jobs are saved as PDF format.
59% of sessions are 1-page-only job, but it represents only 24% of the volume of total paper printed.
The documents of more than 10 pages represents 28% of pages
11% only of sessions are forced in Black&White
10% of sessions use the n-up ( print several pages side by side on the same face of the sheet papers )
Despite nearly 60% of printers reports to be able to do 2-side printing, only 6% of people select this option.
General Data conversion ( things you need to know to convert the data into more “real world” unit)
Average cost of a printed sheet with inkjet printer : 0.12€
A typical paper rearm in real world conversion.
1 Paper Rearm = 500 sheets of paper = 2,5 Kg = cost in paper 4€ = Cost in ink 60€ = Cost in Tree 6% = 10L of water to produce it
Source Easytri , LesNumériques
Conclusion
It’s only the first month, but there is already interesting trends. Some options aren’t used a lot ( 2-side, B&W ) despite it is activable in 1 click in the main screen. It means some ergonomic maniac could find some tips to improve this over the time and the next version. The software hasnt been heavely promoted yet, and hasn’t yet promoted by French organization such as ADEME
Continue to discuss about it and see some tips in our forum
Happy New year 2012
ObviousIdea’s team and myself wish you all the best for 2012, starting with health, love and inspiration. We want to thank all the users and providers which have helped the company to serve you.
ObviousIdea 2011 data in a glance
It’s a special year for ObviousIdea as the company has been created in March 2011. We didn’t start from scratch as we got the ownership of known software like VSO Image Resizer and PhotoOnWeb, and we got a lot of source code we didn’t promote yet.
We have started and released complete new products, like PhotoLikr, GreenCloud pdf printer, QRCode Magic , and more are coming
in 2012 we will continue to create new products and service for desktop and mobile. We will more actively promote the existing service, and try to engage more users and find talent developers. Our challenge is to get feedback from users, to understand what we need to change and improve, to get more ideas about what to implement. Each comment, even the worst insult is important for us, as it shows we need to work again and again.
Once again, happy new year 🙂
Fabrice Meuwissen, CEO ObviousIdea
That’s what our users think about Light Image Resizer, your opinion is valuable for us
Please add your own testimonial at the bottom of this page
Posted on Facebook wall, December 28th 2011
i like the image resizer….the last years i worked with fotosizer….now i deleted fotosizer….thanks…..
Ulf Gruber
Received by email, February 3rd, 2012
a nice tool to re-size multiple images quick and easily with multiple options for deciding the final output from the defaults built in and being able manually adjust the sizes as required in either percent, pixels, or inches. makes the task of resizing photos for email quick and painless task. also like the additional features to tweak the image colors with the sepia effect and having the options to easily apply custom watermarks and borders to my images.
John O. S, Cork, Ireland
Received by email, March 17th, 2012
I already use the VSO Image Resice since a long time ago. I use this to optimice the size of the images of all my webs and economice a lot of space and bandwith.
My webs have literaly millons of hits, then a simply one kB of size can economice you GB of Bandwith every mont.
Only the top right corner of the web (a image of 800 bytes) use 1 Gb of bandwich every month. Then Optimice the size of the images of you web is a Very Very Importante Point to make the web Quick and to Save your money in the Bandwith.
A Big Hug!
Rev. Dr. Ignacio Glez.
Another great use by Schoolzine clients from Australia, Nick Aitkin, Head of production, received the 23rd of February 2012
The light image resizer has been a valuable tool for over 200 Schoolzine clients. We required a program that could process batches of images easily to specific dimensions with out compromising the images quality. The user friendly interface allows our users with minimal computer knowledge to process large amounts of images with a few simple clicks.
Received by email, April 19th 2012
Thanks for an awesome product! I had to purchase simply to support it’s development 🙂
It’s about the quickest and simplest tool I’ve used for image resizing and compression. We are a photography business, and as such each photo shoot is uploaded to personal galleries for our clients. Light Image Resizer is already saving us over 8-10 minutes per job over our previous workflow. THANKS!
PS I found you through a Google search for ‘Image Resizer’.
All the best, and thanks again 🙂
Grant – Operations Manager – Angela Hawkey Photography – Brisbane, Australia – www.angelahawkey.com
GreenCloud Printer is our new product, it’s a eco-friendly driver for your printer. It works with all the printers of the market, and you can save paper, ink, and trees by previewing with always the same dialog your printing job.
it’s also a PDF creating tool to replace your existing solution. You can choose in 1 click each page you need to print or not, but it also detects automatically the page with no contents (like when you print a web page, or an email and don’t need the footer and ads following the real content)
but it’s not finished ! it is also a cloud uploader, so you could send directly your new doc to Google Docs, Dropbox, Minus.com or by email using the internal PDF virtual driver.
it’s a new software, so we need feedback to improve it. you can download and check the video of GreenCloud printer
It’s free and available now !
Here is the page to answer all your questions about Light Image Resizer
and you can post your question in the comments
Today we have been featured on the most popular Nikon Digital camera users community
http://blog.nikonians.org/archives/2011/03/obvidea-fb-free.html
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The unexpected result of this post, is the request about a mac OS version of Light Image Resizer, and no unfortunately we don’t have or plan for the immediate future an apple mac OS version, while ObviousIdea will be active on iPad and iPhone application to enjoy your pictures.