Kenny Kerr

Feedback Forum for Window Clippings

Window Clippings has always been very much driven by the feedback I receive from the community. Up till now I have received that feedback primarily via email and comments on my blog.

As I work on version 3 I thought I should try and make this a bit more manageable and open so I’ve set up a Feedback Forum for Window Clippings. I’ve also seeded it with a few suggestions. I still need to go through all my emails and comments and add various other suggestions that I’ve received but hopefully this is enough to get things started as far as the forum is concerned. I obviously can’t guarantee that every suggestion will turn into a product feature but you can bet that popular suggestions will seriously be considered for inclusion.

Please add suggestions and vote!

Back to the Future... Please

A new day and a new job as a technology consultant in London. I think this screenshot says it all:

Can you tell what those applications are? I know it’s been a while so let me help you. First up is Visual Studio 2003 sporting the .NET Framework version 1.1. That’s before such fundamentals as TryParse, generics and 64 bit support.  Then there’s Visual C++ 6, released in 1998 if I remember correctly. Finally there’s Internet Explorer 6, as witnessed by the lack of PNG alpha blending (and tabbed browsing). This lovely collection of software is running on Windows XP SP2, released somewhere around 2004.

Just so we’re clear: as I write this it’s nearing the fall of 2008.  Can you feel my pain?  :)

Window Clippings v3 Sneak Peek – New Options Window

I’m hoping to get Window Clippings version 3 released before the end of the year but being an evenings and weekends project it’s hard to say for sure. What I did want to start doing is give you a sneak peek of where I’m heading and get your feedback along the way. To kick things off here are some screenshots of the new Options window. In subsequent posts I’ll talk more about the individual features but you can probably guess at a lot of what’s coming up based on what’s in these screenshots. These screenshots are taken on a high resolution screen at 120 DPI so they may appear a bit larger than usual if you’re using the default scaling.

As you can see I’ve finally decided to drop the property sheet as the number of new tabs was becoming overbearing. I hope you like the new layout.

The new window is also resizable to make it easier to manage the growing collection of add-ins:

Please keep in mind that the UI will likely change as I get closer to release and of course the official set of add-ins that will be included with v3 has not yet been finalized.

What do you think?

Send your Window Clippings to ImageShack

Maximilian Krauß recently sent me an add-in he wrote for uploading images to ImageShack. I’d never heard of the ImageShack service before but it turns out you can upload and host images for free and without needing to create an account. As you can see, the add-in itself provides no settings:

After the image is captured the add-in immediately proceeds to upload the image:

On completion it presents a window with links that you can use to refer to the uploaded image:

You can download it here. 

Thanks Maximilian!

ActionFTP for Window Clippings

Sorry for the lack of updates again. I have a pile of posts in the queue but I just haven’t had the time polish them enough for publishing. Anyway... 

Fred Taylor-Young recently released the ActionFTP add-in for Window Clippings. This is meant to be an improvement over the original FTP add-in that Ari Glaizel wrote. As with the original add-in, ActionFTP is a “Send To” add-in for uploading images to an FTP server. It however adds the ability to edit the image before it is uploaded by passing it to the program of your choice.

You can download it here. While you’re there you can admire his awesome array of monitors. :)

Windows Vista Performance Tuning

Microsoft recently published a document entitled Windows Vista Performance and Tuning. It collects much of the “common knowledge” about optimizing the performance of Windows Vista into a single document. This is a great reference if you’re not that familiar with Vista and want some ideas on how to improve its performance. It’s by no means a complete list but hits on some of the most effective and easily adjusted settings.

If only they used Window Clippings to take their screenshots...