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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by wang_li on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:29PM (#44303590)
On the classic macs they’re was a program called DropDisk. You could drag a disk image to it and it auto mounted it. That suggests a tool for you. Make a desktop app that you can drag and drop images on that converts them to jpeg and saves them in a folder.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by msephton on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:21PM (#44305047)
You can create this using Automator in a minute.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by jamiek88 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @08:38PM (#44305541)
thumbsup app does exactly this.
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