Snippage is a free application for Adobe Air which can turn website contents on the computer desktop. Computer users can for instance use this to display the most recent posts of their favorite blogs, new items at their favorite shopping website or new profile pictures of a friend’s Facebook account.
The Adobe Air application comes as a floating window which can be expanded into a basic web browser with an address bar on top. All the computer user needs to do is enter a website url in the address bar to load it. Snippage will then display a transparent rectangle on the screen which can be moved around and resized to fit specific content on the website.
Once the position has been fixed it can be set by the user. This will reduce the window of the application so that only the part that has been selected by the user is shown.
Interaction is possible with the contents that are displayed in the application’s window. Links for example will open in the default web browser. The refresh rate – that is the interval in which the Adobe air application checks for updated content – can be set to never or all 10,30,60 and 180 minutes.
Snippage is an interesting Adobe Air application. The only downside is the computer memory usage of the application which used to be above 70 Megabytes on our test system. Not a problem on modern computer systems with Gigabytes of RAM but surely one for computers with less than that.
Snippage can be downloaded from the developer’s website. It requires Adobe Air and is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac systems. (via Instant Fundas)
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I think future versions of Air will be less demanding, at least I hope the promises in that regard are kept.
I really like the idea but they would have to come down with the memory usage for me to consider using it regularly.