So why haven’t I been using TinyGrab? That was the question I had for myself this afternoon when I came upon this marvelous piece of software.
Blew me away.
Till today I genuinely thought I had the fastest method of snapping and sharing screenshots. I has been using Quicksilver to take a screenshot, and then dragging the image to Dockdrop, an app sat in my dock. That is fast, trust me. Takes less than 5 seconds.
With TinyGrab however, it’s less than that, maybe no more than a second depending on how fast your internet connection is.
So here’s how it works: Press command-shift-4 (on a Mac, not sure what it is for a PC), grab the area of the screen you want to share. Done.
The screenshot is uploaded to TinyGrab with a short URL automatically copied to your clipboard to share in an email, IM message, or Twitter. If you’re a premium user (costs £10), you can enter ftp settings and upload to your own server.
If you find yourself frequently sharing images or screenshots (yes, you can share images too rather than just screenshots) on Twitter – I can’t recommend trying TinyGrab enough.
yep. my favorite by far!. wish they had also flickr sharing built in
It’s easily the most useful small piece of software I use.
I prefer Skitch. Have you been using Skitch?
sure, but no where near as fast.
http://pokit.etf.ba/ is basically the same thing, but you just have to check it out. I’m using it for two months now and I’m totally in love :)
Have you tried Voila?
I’m an ex-PC Snagit user and Voila is pretty darn close.
It was one of the last pieces to the puzzle in my PC to Mac conversion.
The jing app from the jingproject does this also with video..
but again, just not as fast – but it is no doubt very very awesome Jing
Omg, Zee thank you…. this saves me tons of time!
Signed up to TinyGrab about an hour ago, just didn’t receive an email for my password.
I used to use GrabUp to do the exact same, but sadly it seems the service is no longer supported. TinyGrab or Droplr are both great alternatives. Super fast!
Aye, I used to use GrabUp too was fantastic, shame it changed hands and went down hill.
You can also drag and drop an image file onto the menubar icon to upload directly. Pretty neat.
Hi, check out SnagIt by TechSmith. It's in beta for the Mac now. This is the ONLY application that I required to make full Mac transition. It's way more than just a screen capture/sharing app. If that's all you need, there are *many* that do that. What SnagIt does is capture long web pages, and being in the web building business, this is critical. It can then do all of the editing, annotating, and lots of other things – things you don't need PhotoShop or some lesser other software product to do. I've turned hundreds of folks onto this program and all of them are thrilled.