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Big Things Happening in ScrnShots Land! Jun 4th

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:

  • Application lives in the menu bar, which means that it’s out of the way, but always there when you need to snap a quick screenshot
  • Take screenshots of a section or an entire window
  • Upload screenshots from existing files on your computer
  • Auto-completion of tags based on your existing ScrnShots tags (Mac version)

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:

  • All screenshots
  • Your screenshots
  • Your favorites
  • Your contacts’ screenshots
  • Users

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.

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Posted in Announcements | 1 Comment » | June 4th, 2008 by Derek Kehler

ReadWriteWeb Reviews ScrnShots!! May 1st

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:

  1. We’re working on a few uploading tools right now that should make integration with your desktop quite seemless. You can check out a video preview of the ScrnShots mac desktop application here: http://blog.scrnshots.com/2008/04/09/screencast-mac-desktop-app-preview/
  2. We are also going to be releasing the API to the public a few weeks after launch, which will enable developers to build their own tools to share with the community.

Once again, thank you to Sarah and ReadWriteWeb!! We really appreciate it!

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Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments » | May 1st, 2008 by Derek Kehler