Web Sites – Thumbshots

WebSite: www.thumbshots.org

This site enables you to embed a thumbnail image of a website. Rather cool, except there must be some level of caching for new website requests. This page at the time of saving doesn’t show the thumbshot of the official site.

Below is an example output from website that I got the idea from:

Tagged with: Cool Tools General Web Sites

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