Comments on: ThumbStrips: A Filmstrip Of Screenshots

By: Holly @ iLab

Holly @ iLab — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:13:50 +0000

I work at Intuit’s Innovation Lab and wanted to thank you all for the great feedback and ideas on ThumbStrips – keep it coming. We are planning the next versions of TS and are interested in what TS does that you love, and what you wish TS did but it currently doesn’t.

Concrete Stain: I know this isn’t the traditional accounting or tax software you might expect to see from Intuit, but we are interested in solving important problems for people, and looking for innovative ways and areas to do this. TS is an example of that for Intuit.

Mark: We decided to use a standard EULA for all the products on the site – so we can focus on creating innovative products rather than legal docs. With that said, we have heard some feedback and concerns about this, so we’re working with the legal team to streamline the EULA so it makes more sense for the products we have now.

iNeuron: There is a save feature in TS so you can save your session and revisit later, or start recording again from the end of the strip. If you’ve tried that and are still looking for something different, please let us know.

William: The thumbnails are created using the canvas element from Mozilla.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:05:13 +0000

Indeed an extremely practical add-on for Firefox, I already checked it out and I enjoyed it.

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Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:16:15 +0000

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By: Micah Laaker

Micah Laaker — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:23:50 +0000

Interesting plugin… will check it out for my PC at work.

Don’t know if you’ve seen this before, but Smile On My Mac has made “BrowseBack,” a Mac app that sits in the background snapping PDF captures of every page visited in Safari + Firefox + IE + Opera + Camino, etc., available for at least a year. It got a MacWorld Best in Show award in 2006.

It’s available for $30 at “http://www.smileonmymac.com/browseback/”

Even better, you can get it as part of the current MacHeist bundle on top of the MacUpdate application bundle: “http://www.mupromo.com/?buy=heist”

8 apps for $49: Little Snitch, GraphicConverter, Fetch, iWOW, GarageSale, Cocktail, ProfCast, and Amadeus Pro + BrowseBack, Exces, Linkinus + more.

By: Michael Vu

Michael Vu — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:07:09 +0000

The only problem with these firefox extensions is that too many of them + greasemonky = slow.

I like this one though, going to give it a shot.

By: aandarian

aandarian — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:20:06 +0000

Good work guys! Wayyy cool. Its on my browser as we speak.

By: PHR

PHR — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:59:52 +0000

The concept looks somewhat similar to the stacking feature introduced by Cooliris Previews for Firefox. Both serve as “temporary bookmarks”.

See http://ventureb...ews-and-stacks/

By: SlickDealer

SlickDealer — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:50:01 +0000

Pretty slick. Wish there was a way to show the different tabs I had open at the time.

By: website copywriter

website copywriter — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:16:38 +0000

Yeah, viewing history from a week back at least could’ve been better, but I love the concept anyway.

By: iNuron

iNuron — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:43:06 +0000

I’m a bit disapointed; it doesn’t save screenshots for your entire history.. so it’s only usefull for one session. Still, nicely executed and works really will!

By: Yezidi

Yezidi — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:25:18 +0000

This is pretty cool. I like the ability to perform a search across screenshots.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:01:31 +0000

Yeah looks great;

-wonder where this fits in at intuit

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:26:21 +0000

That’s a great idea, just for navigation. I’m definitely going to give it a shot.

-Chris
http://www.nerdcouncil.com

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:53:09 +0000

It looks great. I will definitely give it a try.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:38:07 +0000

The extension uses the firefox canvas functionality. The only downside to this is that plugins don’t render on the canvas, which means that youtube videos and flash won’t appear in the thumbnails.

By: William

William — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:44:04 +0000

Great extension, which thumbnail service is being used? (in house developed or external software)

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:20:49 +0000

Oh, if you don’t want to “check to agree” the terms and conditions (which seem a bit lengthy for a ff add-on), goto http://innovati...trips-1.0.2.xpi

By: Johnson

Johnson — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:18:20 +0000

I guess it can have some use for some people but it sounds like it could be pretty raw software and that Intuit is eventually going to charge for the final product.

Me I use the tab feature in FF to remember what I need. Everything else goes into my Favorites. I have 81 tabs open in FF right now. These are things I want to review or follow [lol].

By: Larry Chiang

Larry Chiang — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:15:03 +0000

anything that keeps a person from a) thinking or b) reading is good. Screenshots sequential is *genius*

p.s. I am reading Evelyn Wood SRP… Anyone wanna be in the club?

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:21:33 +0000

I can see that being useful, I would download it only for some reason firefox runs slower than safari so I’ve been sticking to safari.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:04:41 +0000

Riddle
to be totally correct in Firefox speak it’s an Add-on, but they’re all plugins to me

By: Paul Daniel

Paul Daniel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:42:46 +0000

Well you brought it to my attention, so “Thanks”.

By: Riddle

Riddle — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:40:59 +0000

Thanks for the news, Duncan – I’m really gonna use it.

However this is not a plugin, but extension. Plugin = QuickTime in Firefox for example.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:26:59 +0000

Vinod
It was pitched to us in the last 24 hours. If it’s been covered elsewhere so be it, I haven’t seen it before and others may not have…and it’s a pretty nifty plugin.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:25:48 +0000

The licence is scary:

1.2. Testing of Health Care-Related Software

(i) Tester hereby acknowledges and agrees that information Tester may provide to Intuit or its affiliates or that Tester may obtain from any health plan, or that is obtained on Tester’s behalf, through use of the Pre-Release Software, including but not limited to any health information (collectively, “Personal information”), once provided to Intuit or obtained by Tester or on Tester’s behalf, shall not be considered to be “Protected Health Information” for the purposes of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-191). Tester agrees that any such Personal Information may be used by Intuit or its affiliates in support of testing activities.