Thumbpress - a better way to get a screengrab

Last night, after we finished recording G'Day World, Michael Bailey skyped me and told me he had a new idea he wanted to run past me. What if he built a service that would make it easy to get a screengrab of a website? I said "hell yeah, that'd rock", as I often go through the laborious process of CTRL-PRTSCN, then find an image program to dump it into, export as jpeg, upload to flickr, and FINALLY you have a URL to post into a blog.

Well 12 hours later and Michael has it built. He's called it THUMBPRESS.

Here's an example of the TPN website.

Comments

[Grant]

Hi Cameron - I can't access the Thumbpress site yet. But another app for Mac OS X that does the same basic function (then some) is Paparazzi:
http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/

Will check out Thumbpress once it's back up.

Grant

[Michael Bailey]

Thanks Cameron, yeah, typically once an idea, which I think might be beneficial to someone else, enters my head that's pretty much all I focus on.

Grant,

I took a quick look at the Paparazzi site -
ThumbPress is a web-based service - you might not have been able to get to it, as I just registered the domain name a few hours before I finished developing the site.

There may still be a few issues with one of the components which I used - it was from a French company, I don't speak French, and they seem to be very slow to respond.

We'll see how it goes with them, and if they can't live up to their product, I'll just take a day and code my own component to replace theirs.

Michael B

[Des Paroz]

Got it working now. It took several goes, as the site just timed out. Interesting idea.

[Michael Bailey]

Good to hear Des - I had just put a new rendering engine in place to day - so far so good, hopefully it lasts forever.

Michael B

[Mick]

Nice. For normal screen shots I use Screen Hunter. Works great for me.

http://zapr.typepad.com/michael/2006/01/screen_grab_sav.html