Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Screenshot Sharing

Good day.

One of the very common tasks in development process is communication. While you can easily mail someone or even call with Skype, visual representation is priceless.
Bugs, cross-browser testing, any other information that have visual representation must be seen as is, not just described.

You can share your desktop with teamviewer or something similar, but it's not useful when you need to take a look at your application error message after some time or something like that.
So we come back to - - - SCREENSHOTS!

Screenshot sharing is very important part of communication in development process. So faster screenshot sharing can save your time.

I prefer to use some tool named Grabilla to share my screenshots.
It can instantly grab a part of screen, upload it its server and provide you with link to this picture. And all this with single click!
There's a lot of other applications like this, but for my screenshot sharing I use Grabilla.
It has other useful features like dropping an image on shortcut to upload it to server, capturing active application window, etc.
And most valuable part to me is that no registration or configuration required. You can share screenshots in a minute, right out of box. Launch it, select area - get a link to send to someone. No FTP, no accounts, no glitches.

Other important option is ability to record screencast - video capture of your screen. You can record entire desktop or just part of it and make a voice comments to things that happens. This can be very useful when you want to show how to reproduce an error when testing application, or to show your application's features to someone.

Really, Grabilla saves me a lot of time, so I want to show my appreciation to these guys and write this review.

1 comment:

  1. offshore software development

    Thanks, I have been searching for details about this topic for ages and yours is the best I have discovered so far.

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