Apr 20 2010

Have You Gone Skitch Mad Yet?

Category: Business & Marketing, Technology Insights, Workflow & DAMEthan G. Salwen @ 9:55 am

AfterCapture_Blog_100420_Skitch_aAt the risk of beating a dead horse — that’s a truly creepy visual that I never really thought about — I’m once again going to highlight Skitch, straight-out begging all you Mac users to download this amazingly useful, fun (and free!) app.

Just play with Skitch for a few minutes and you’ll be hooked — seriously hooked.

You’ll see that as fun as Skitch is, it’s an truly amazing tool for photographers.

I tried to hard sell you on Skitch with a my show-don’t-tell Skitch post. Then I tried to soft sell you with another post highlighting Skitch. And yet I’m back at it. Why? Because I’m using this brilliant little app almost every day, and it continues to blow me away.

Just now I sent off this Skitch-made graphic in an email to a friend as part of a digital workflow question. Less than three minutes to create — from start to “send.”

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This is a hell of a lot better than a long, confusing email in which I try to explain this file structure, don’t ya think?

(Keep Going: There’s a Skitch Dead Horse Surprise at end of this post!)

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Dec 01 2009

The Magic Mouse IS Magic!

Category: Technology Insights, ViewpointEthan G. Salwen @ 12:31 pm

ACOF_091201_1_magic_whywireless_20091020“Buy Apple’s new Magic Mouse,” Jason Nunes said to me after I complained of wanting (oh so bad) a mouse for my Mac that would allow give me the beautiful power of my MacBook trackpad.

Nunes wasn’t sure of the Magic Mouse’s exact magical powers — he seems to do most of his excessive computing from his iPhone — but I allowed myself to be hopeful. Still, I had no idea. None.

If you are a Mac user and you want two-button mouse functionality + wireless functionality + the ability (and this is the best) to scroll with that same finger + (can you believe there’s more?) to do a two-finger swipe (to advance and retreat through Web pages), then you’ve just got to pick up the Magic Mouse.

And at only $69!

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