One of our users, Matt Varone (aka: sksmatt), wrote a ScrnShots Plugin For Wordpress!
It boasts easy setup and configuration via an admin panel, as well as cache support, “allowing you to save thumbnails on your own server.”
The cache support is pretty freaking cool, so check this nice little tool out!
Thanks Matt!
Desktop Integration: these two words have been floating around our office a lot in the last few weeks, and now that we have officially released ScrnShots Desktop, they have finally become a reality!
Our hope is that ScrnShots Desktop will eliminate the barriers to uploading and sharing your screenshots, making the process of taking and uploading screenshots much easier and faster.
Here are the features:
This is a beta release, so please post any feedback or bugs to our Forums. We have lots more functionality in the works for both desktop apps and look forward to getting them up to a 1.0 release with your help!
Search ScrnShots
For all you inspiration hunter and gatherers out there, you can now search ScrnShots for inspiration!
You can search according to the following criteria:
Public API
This one’s for the developers. We have released the beta version of our Public API.
If you want to create your own tool to integrate with ScrnShots, this documentation contains the info that you will need.
Currently, we are still working on the full API for ScrnShots.com. However, any API methods that are documented within this document will be considered to be stable and will be supported by ScrnShots.
Firefox Plugin Coming Soon!
We are going to be releasing a Firefox Plugin in the very near future!
Check back religiously for the most recent news and features.
Greg and I have decided to interview a ScrnShots user once a week or so. We will be selecting featured users according to number of uploads, comments and celebrity status. If you are interested in being featured, upload tons of screenshots and comment on others screenshots… trust me, we will notice you.
Some other ways you might go about being featured, is by blogging about ScrnShots, telling us how awesome we are or hassling us on twitter.
Our first featured ScrnShots user is Ryan Townsend. Ryan has been uploading, commenting, and giving great feedback since launch. I had the pleasure of talking to Ryan last week about what he does, and how ScrnShots is changing the way he works.
Derek: What is your profession?
Ryan: I am a part-time Lead Web Designer / Developer at a small ICT company in the Midlands, UK, and a full-time student studying Internet Computing at Manchester University, UK - as you can imagine time management is rather complicated! I have been developing websites professionally for 5 years now and in the past year I have moved on to web applications.
Derek: What does a day at work look like for you?
Ryan: Well as everyone knows, students cannot physically wake up until at least 11am, however I only have this luxury during term when I work remotely, work at the office starts at 9. Either way, first port of call is my RSS feeds, podcasts and emails, to see what is happening in the world. Next I set about my usual routine of working on layouts for website projects we have, and switching to coding web applications when I am less inspired. I believe the balance between artist design and technical development keeps me enthusiastic and driven. I make sure I have at least five minutes away from the computer an hour, so during that time I often plan things on my whiteboard, which I reckon is one of the most important tools for any developer (and you can pick one up for around £20 these days - bargain).
Derek: What are some things that you are working on right now?
Ryan: I have numerous web applications in the works at the moment, most of which I cannot release details for, but keep an eye on my Scrnshots feed (scrnshots.com/users/ryan) for sneak-peaks. For those of you interested in Ruby On Rails development I am also running a screencast tutorial site over at ThinkRefresh.com.
Derek: How does ScrnShots fit into your workflow?
Ryan: Well as I mentioned earlier, the first thing I do in the morning is check my RSS feeds, which used to be full of web design galleries, I’d look through all the new entries screenshot-ing the sites I like and sort them into folders based on the site’s style. This process has now been totally replaced by getting my inspiration from select user’s RSS feeds on Scrnshots, and either favorite-ing their uploads, or visiting the site personally and capturing the area I like using the desktop tool (currently in beta). The tagging really helps, as OS X doesn’t let you tag your documents (to my knowledge), so Scrnshots is much more organized when it comes to revisiting the images.
Derek: What do you use ScrnShots for?
Ryan: Besides storing my own personal inspiration, many of my friends also follow my feed for aiding their own projects. I release sneak-peaks of my applications, so people can provide me with valuable feedback, I also enjoy reciprocating and providing advice to other users too.
Derek: This is your time to shine, what else would you like to say?
Ryan: To be the best you can as a designer / developer, you must constantly look at what others are doing to stay in the game, otherwise you’ll quickly be left behind. You should also be critical of your own work, so getting feedback from others can be really useful. Scrnshots is a brilliant place for both of these things, so get signed up.
Hey ScrnShot-ites,
Day 1 was a huge success! We are happy to welcome just under 500 new users to the ScrnShots community!
We ended off the day with just under 10,000 page views, and 720 screenshots uploaded!
We want to thank everyone who signed up and contributed yesterday. It’s really exciting for us to see people using ScrnShots!
I would like to thank Sarah Perez and all the folks at ReadWriteWeb, for the flattering review of ScrnShots.
Here is Sarah’s take on ScrnShots:
Scrnshots, currently in private beta, is meant to serve as a community for designers to share their screenshots of interesting or beautiful designs. However, the service, which allows you to upload shots which others can use via an embed code, has the potential to be more than just a niche community for artistic types.
At first glance, ScrnShots appears to be a takeoff on sites like FFFFOUND! or We Heart It (our coverage). Those sites let you “favorite” pictures from the web as inspiring, interesting, artistic, and so on. ScrnShots takes it a step further, encouraging you to take a screenshot of the image and then upload it to their service.
She makes a few good points about ScrnShots being more than just a “niche community” for designers. She mentions the potential use for bloggers who need a place to host screenshots that are simply not important enough to take up space on your computer. These are exactly the ways in which we would love to see ScrnShots grow; users coming up with their own uses for our system.
Sarah touches on the fact that the uploading process is simply too long: “As it is right now, screenshots have to be uploaded one-by-one, a tedious process that simply takes to long for anyone to become a heavy user of the service.”
We, here at ScrnShots have two answers for this:
Once again, thank you to Sarah and ReadWriteWeb!! We really appreciate it!