{"id":320,"date":"2007-10-05T13:59:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/?p=320"},"modified":"2007-10-05T15:32:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T20:32:59","slug":"finally-got-a-skitch-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/archives\/320","title":{"rendered":"Finally got a Skitch Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I received my Skitch<\/a> invitation. I read about Skitch<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Since I had put in the request many<\/em> months ago, and I've started using FlySketch<\/a> 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<\/a> is nice and small, and it can do a lot of things, but the ability to drag from Skitch<\/a> 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<\/a> is capable of makes Skitch<\/a> a good upgrade from FlySketch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong> a service that's free to keep my important<\/em> images, but it's a place to throw stuff up there<\/em>, and then decide if I need to keep a copy on my machine(s) later.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> it's a good idea to not<\/em><\/strong> have FlySketch<\/a> and Skitch<\/a> running at the same time. I've found some incompatibilities with the snapping in Skitch<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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