Making screenshots can be fun. But that’s not all. As a blogger, designer or anyone who shares his ideas and experiences on the web, you know how useful they can be in terms of showing the others what was just happening on your screen when you were writing that awesome article about whatever it should be instead of trying to describe the process in writing. Unless you decide a screencast would be the most suitable way of demonstration, screenshots get the job done well. Does the possibility of storing them online right from your desktop and having them ready for use on your website sound tempting to you?
If so, meet an interesting start-up called ScrnShots. Besides having a fancy 2.0 name it provides you with a few effective tools for keeping the screenshots you take in order and for ease of linking to them and embedding them into a web page. One of such tools would definitely be tagging that can be applied on each image to make it easier for you to find your way to it later on. The function allowing the user to view existing screenshots in an orderly manner through the web interface surely comes in handy too but the thing I find most useful about this service is that it prepares a few links to various sizes of the picture for you to simply copy&paste these into your site to have the pictures embedded as links which take you to the host upon clicking them. Here, viewers can leave comments on your screenshots and view them in full size. One last thing especially addicted screenshotters could appreciate is getting a personal RSS feed updating anyone who should be interested in new shots you take and a partly customizable widget made up of 1 up to 10 thumbnails of your latest “artwork”.
ScrnShots preview:
All this would be kind of clumsy if you had to use ScrnShots’ online uploader every time you want to share a screenshot. Fortunately there’s a very lightweight (5 files) desktop version of the uploader available for download from here that makes it possible to snap certain area on your screen and tag/describe the image before uploading it. There are versions for both Windows and Mac, however, I got an error message when trying to run it on my system. Hopefully that only happened on account of the application being a 0.7Beta and the new version to come will be working properly. If you do give it a try, please let me know whether the desktop uploader worked for you or not.
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This seems like a very cool tool, but I hesitate to put my website screenshots on other servers because if their server has problems my images won’t show.
The Windows version of the desktop app has a rather major bug right now where any screenshot you take using the app includes the white masking that should obscure anything outside of the screenshot area (I hope that made sense). They claim to be working on it, but that was also roughly a month ago when they acknowledged the issue. If they get it working this combination of desktop app and website could be handy (at least until Skitch releases a Windows version of their app).
Hey Tobey! Thanks for the write up. I’m interested in what kind of error you received while setting up ScrnShots Desktop (I’m assuming on a PC). If you have a free moment, email me and I can try to get it sorted. Also it would help us to make sure that the next release works perfectly.
Thx and see ya on ScrnShots!
Desktop uploader works fine for me, using version 0.7
Thanks for the replies.
@Daniel: You’re right about that, unavailability of a vital online service like this might cause some troubles. That’s unfortunately an issue related to all services like that. We shall hope they reckon their responsibility to their users and keep their servers up as much as possible or.. not use such services at all. Your choice :)
@xxdesmus: Thanks for the report of the fault, hope they solve it soon..
@Greg Bell: I’ll get in touch with you asap.
@dus: You seem to be a rather lucky person then :D