Adam Merrifield

I am one of those guys that, because of the industry I am in, need to be connected at all times. At any given moment you'll find me posting on a forum, updating with twitter, Digging things worthy of attention, uploading pictures, or tagging cool sites.

here i am

seyDoggy Systems:
This is home base, the corporate headquarters, the hub, if you will, seyDoggy.com.

seyDesign news:
these are the RapidWeaver related posts that originally appear in the seyDesign.com blog

delicious.com/seydoggy:
these are the websites I want to share or revisit later on. I just tag them on delicious.com.

Skitch – Snap, Draw, Share

August 13, 2007 Filed in: Geeky

How many of you Mac users out there have heard of Skitch? If your a much a geek as me then you know about Skitch and chances you even have your beta copy and are sending out invites. For those of you that are… er… a little more normal, here is what Skitch is; Snap, Draw, Share! That’s it in a nutshell. A screen grabbing app with so much more.

There is no shortage of ways to dump your screen into a screen shot on a mac, from built in hot keys to native apps like the Grab.app found in the Applications > Utilities folder, to 3rd party apps like SnapZ ProX or SnapNDrag. But what all of these methods lack is a way annotating, marking up and sharing these screen shots. Never has it been so easy to snap draw and share screen shots and pictures before.

So lets put this app into working perspective which I will do from the perspective of a web designer, because… that’s what I know. I use this a lot to communicate with my customers and show them marked up designs, pointing area that I think need changing or explaining what I mean with certain terminology. It’s an indispensable tool for that purpose.

In the above example, I might snap a shot of the design I am working on, add some remarks and comments and then email it to my client, or perhaps post it on a server of my choice. You can even post it to your own mySkitch account if you don’t have any servers of your own. The brilliant part is Skitch will add the date and time to each image name so that you will never overwrite any image on upload and you will always know which image is the most current one. Then at the click of a button you can copy the URL or HTML code that Skitch generates to use in an email or website, etc…

I am serious when I say that it has never been easier to share desktop ideas.

[tags]Skitch, screen capture, screen grab, screen shot, OS X[/tags]

Tags: app, apple, code, design, designer, geek, html, ideas, javascript, mac, nutmac, os x, php, picture, pictures, rw, screen capture, screen grab, screen shot, Skitch, software, web

| Trackback

Comments are closed.

About Adam

I was born in Barry, Ontario and raised, for the most part, in Kitchener, Ontario. I finished high school in the early 90's and college in the mid 90's. Married in 2000 and am currently enjoying the family life with 3 kids.

After nearly a decade in the automotive industry, I started to formulate my entrepreneurial plans. I made my move to web design / theme development in 2005, making it my full time career by 2006.

About seyDoggy

seyDoggy is a small and efficient theme, code and design outfit based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Since mid 2005 seyDoggy has been turning out top notch websites, graphics and RapidWeaver themes.

Owner and operator, Adam Merrifield, keeps a tight ship making sure that seyDoggy keeps up to speed with the latest trends in design. Always abreast of the latest coding standards and techniques, seyDoggy is never caught looking the other way.

About RapidWeaver

RapidWeaver is about the most exiting thing to happen to web development on the Mac platform. Without so much as the knowledge to spell "HTML" let alone know any, the average human being can publish a gorgeous website to the internet.

Adam Merrifield has been developing themes and templates for the RapidWeaver platform since mid 2005 and professionally since the fall of 2005.

Adam Merrifield { the collective }