Finally got a Skitch Invitation
This morning I received my Skitch invitation. I read about Skitch from one of the new feeds I read daily, and the demo movie looked like it had a lot of nice features for image capture and sharing - though I'd be a lot more interested in the capture than the sharing, but there's stuff to share, and I guess they make their money off the adds they run on the viewing pages. Anyway, this morning I got he email saying I had received an invitation. So I decided to go back to the site and see if I was still interested.
Since I had put in the request many months ago, and I've started using FlySketch more, I wondered if I'd still think it was as "cool" as I did when I asked for the invite. Well... I have to say that it really is an amazing little tool. FlySketch is nice and small, and it can do a lot of things, but the ability to drag from Skitch to an app without saving (they save the image to /tmp and then 'drag' it in) and the ability to do more drawing than FlySketch is capable of makes Skitch a good upgrade from FlySketch.
Then when you look at the ability to put the images on their servers, allowing people to look at your sketches without you having to store them - well, that's just a nice bonus. Now I'm not sure I'd ever really trust a service that's free to keep my important images, but it's a place to throw stuff up there, and then decide if I need to keep a copy on my machine(s) later.
It's integration with OS X is really stunning and the mouse-over help is nice, but I hope as they mature the product it's able to be shut-off in the preferences. It works wonderfully well on my MacBook Pro - fast and snappy. I like the organization of the preferences even if it's a little against the Apple HIG. I have to say they did a nice job. I'll be running this and see where it'll take me.
UPDATE: it's a good idea to not have FlySketch and Skitch running at the same time. I've found some incompatibilities with the snapping in Skitch if you do. Since they both are about the same, I can see this as a limitation. I'm not really happy with it, but I can see it.