We love screen shots here at TechCrunch. They can really help readers visualize how a brand new Website looks and feels without actually having to go there. But for those whose appreciation rises to the level of obsession there’s ScrnShots, a Website for uploading, sharing, and talking about screen shots.
Of course, you can upload and share screen shots on plenty o existing services such as Flickr, SlideShare, or Screencast. But ScrnShots is all about creating a community around screen shots specifically. You can go there and see the most recent, the most viewed, and the most commented on screen shots. You can upload your own, and discuss them. It appeals to Website designers primarily (much like Colour Lovers lets them delve deep into colors and patterns), but anyone can upload or chime in.
And every screen shot can also be embedded elsewhere as a widget (click on the one below to be taken to corresponding ScrnShots page). The site doesn’t fill a big need, but it does fill its niche perfectly well.
This is the dumbest fucking shit I’ve ever seen
Is this free?
Wow, what if you could screencast into flash via a fake webcam driver where flash asks you to enable video and it actually enables a video devices that pulls frames from the Desktop window?
Then share all the screencast videos on a site like youtube?
http://www.flic...631793/sizes/l/
What if nobody else could do that forever and ever?
Screenshots are nice, but the web is moving towards video. Again, nice site, there are lots like it. Another one is certainly welcome.
Agreed. I actually had this thought two days ago myself, and have been searching the web for anything like it. Couldn’t find it. The closest I came was your post, describing exactly what I was looking for.
Have you found anything like this?
I noticed the picture of the patent application. What does that mean, exactly?
This could be a good tool for documenting things that happen on websites. For example when controversial items are posted, then quietly removed, the screenshots could be posted here.
Shift+Apple+3?
cool. I’m a big fan of Skitch on the Mac for taking snapshots and sharing them on my blog. Check them out at http://www.skitch.com/ and no I don’t work for them.
I agree with Randy and HIGHLY recommend Skitch…it has become a vital part of my daily workflow and is unparalleled for making visual collaboration almost as easy as being in the same room as someone.
Try it.
It’s a simple concept but very well executed. If they had a firefox extension that allowed you to take pictures of a webpage and automatically add them to your account it would be a fantastic tool for web/ui designers. I was actually thinking about building something like this myself.
I like Shup http://shup.com for the actual uploading of screenshots. The hotkey-based capturing and builtin image editor makes sharing the screenshots quite easy, and then Shup puts the URL into your clipboard so you can paste it straightaway.
Well done.
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cool app, but it has major problems on Vista… They’ve been “working on it” for at least a month now.
@4 continued. I do not have time to implement this fully for Windows.
I am going to do it for Xserver probably.
If there is anybody out there that can sink some money in for a team to figure out how to sign this as a webcam driver w/o Microsoft killing it on an update, please contact me.
It should effect your signing reputation because it’s clean
http://www.flic...002794/sizes/l/
If Microsoft refuses for whatever illegitimate reason, anti-competitiveness could be cited. It will at least work on XP.
That should be, it shouldn’t effect your signing reputation. And I am not looking for investment to get the full patent. I am doing efile on it with drawings from dia, ect…
I am looking for investment to realize the driver on Vista, signed along with the web interface portal for screenshots live with flash.
screencasts live with flash, thx!!
It is really not useful, anyone could do something like that
Nath
http://www.them...rfulcompany.com
This seems to be like http://konigi.com
The biggest difference is that Konigi lets you upload multiple screenshots and it lets you, as the uploader, describe each one individually.
Everyone can comment on the whole group.
To me, it seems a little better than ScrnShots. But, ScrnShots does have a nicer design.
I am not affiliated with either of these companies.
@chris
stop trolling. enough already of your stupid invention. what’s the point of it anyway? screencasts already exist, and for livecast, use simply ultraVNC client/server.
For those interested in investing in my patented screencast youtube idea. 2 points I did not mention.
A. The driver would normally allow any site, be it seesmic, youtube or others that allow live recording or streaming to access the screencast camera driver.
Software would be built to prevent this and to lock them into the preferred website after they install the device.
B. Developers working on this are expensive. Any Yahoo moron can build a website with photoshop and dreamweaver, or with AJAX. Not any moron can build device drivers to bypass what Microsoft considers normal use.
C. If you think you can bypass this invention patent, beware, I will sue you 8 ways broke, no matter what country you are from due to international treaties on intellectual property.
This is by far the largest waste of time I have seen…. This site will be gone in a matter of time unless they somehow get bought out by a conglomerate that keeps it going as a pet project.
Flickr anyone?
BTW, the lightbox scrnshots is using can be found here:
http://www.hudd...ects/lightbox2/
So you can make your own photo effects exactly like theirs. A larger website like Flickr with their own dev team create their own javascript namespaces and libraries FYI. This is some open source thrown together with some photoshop.
Chris, I would like to talk with you about screen recording and sharing thing.
I have been thinking and researching on my screencasting idea, but i stuck in technical stuff. Could not find a way to contact you on sitespaces, only way was after registering.
please drop me a line. thanks
I’ve been using scrnshots since early beta, being a web designer/developer myself, I’ve found it to be a really valuable resource. I’ve yet to find a place, where I can search for “tabs” and get 100 different design approaches, helps a ton in the design phases.
Also, Erick didn’t mention that they have scrnshot tools for uploading seamlessly from screen to site for both mac/pc (though vista is kinda buggy).
@Chris Get your own blog.
(Disclosure: I’m friends with developers behind scrnshots)
I am a part of this website and have been currently sharing a lot of screenshots there. You should join too and see the ScrnShots world. It will really hook you up just like what it had done to me.
The next version of Shup (http://shup.com), due out today or tomorrow, supports uploading directly to your ScrnShots account.
This is an interesting site and it has a good feel; worth checking out to see the creativity of others.