Review from Geekissimo. LightShot, scattare degli screenshot e caricarli direttamente online.

La condivisione è alla portata di qualsiasi computer connesso alla rete (affermazione leggermente imprecisa). Chiunque può scambiare informazioni sottoforma di testo, immagini, e video, anche se nell’ultimo caso, le cose si complicano leggermente.

Ultimamente, c’è da dire, le video conferenze sono più guardabili rispetto a quelle che si facevano solamente un paio d’anni fa. Ciò è anche dovuto all’aumento della velocità dell’ADSL. Sempre in campo video, la condivisione che da ancora problemi è quella del desktop. Personalmente, non sono ancora riuscito ad intrattenere una condivisione normale con qualche amico. Troppo lenta, e troppo macchinosa, di certo non è un buon sistema per scambiare informazioni con un utente della rete.

Capità però di dover far vedere ad un nostro amico ciò che noi stiamo osservando al computer. In questi casi, una semplice condivisione di screenshot potrebbe rivelarsi la strada più semplice e veloce da seguire. Esistono una miriade di programmi che consentono di scattare foto del monitor e salvarle. Non dovremo far’altro che inviare poi l’immagine grazie ad un qualsiasi software IM.
Ma oggi voglio presentarvi un programma che vi permetterà di saltare qualche passaggio. Infatti, non dovrete salvare l’immagine sul computer, ma otterrete un link da poter condividere con chiunque. Il software freeware si chiama Light Shot ed è disponibile in 3 versioni (per firefox, per explorer, e per il desktop). Io ho usato quella Standalone.
Dopo averlo scaricato ed installato, vedrete una piccola icona a forma di piuma accanto all’orologio. per avviare il programma dovrete cliccare il tasto “Stamp” (sulla tastiera). Ora scegliete la sezione che vi interessa condividere e cliccate il tasto con la freccia verso l’alto. In questo modo otterrete un link diretto all’immagine.
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Stáhnout LightShot 1.3.0. From Stahuj.cz

Volně šiřitelná aplikace LightShot je nástroj pro pořizování snímků vybraných částí obrazovky. Program poskytuje přehledné a snadno ovladatelné uživatelské rozhraní. Vytvořený snímek je možné nejen kopírovat do schránky nebo uložit do souboru, ale snímek je možné uložit také na server a tím získat jeho URL adresu. Díle je možné snímek opravit v online editoru nebo snadno sdílet na některé ze sociálních sítí Twitter, Facebook, nebo Digg. LightShot.

Hlavní vlastnosti:

• Pořizování snímků vybraných částí obrazovky
• Kopírování snímků do schránky nebo ukládání do souborů PNG, JPG, GIF
• Upload snímků na server a získání krátké URL adresy
• Sdílení snímků prostřednictvím Twitter, Facebook, nebo Digg. LightShot
• Ovládání pomocí klávesových zkratek
• A další

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LightShot, The Fastest Way To Do A Customizable Screenshot. Review from TechSkipper.com

Review from Tech Skipper – the Technology Navigator
Today I came across this simple tool of taking snaps of the selected portion of the desktop. After the installation was over, I tried to use it and guess what? I didn’t know how to move on with it. I found a purple leaf icon on my taskbar and I knew that’s certainly ‘LightShot’ as that was the newly added one. So, I right click the icon but it showed no more than “About” and “Exit” options. I tried “About” but showed no information how to operate it.

By chance, I tried “Print Screen” button and my desktop screen became dark and my cursor showed a little text information, below it, saying: ‘Click and Drag’. I selected the portion of my desktop to be copied and it gave me the store options as mentioned in detail below:

Edit:
It will take you to Light Shot website where you can play with the image using Photoshop all from your browser. A cool option for Photoshop lovers.

Upload:
It uploads the image to the Light Shot website and gives you back a quick URL for accessing it directly through web.
Full Screen:
It selects the entire screen
Copy:
It copies a selected image which you can paste it in paint or anywhere else where you like
Save:
It gives you options to save it as .png or .jpeg or .bmp on the drive.
Close:
It cancels the snap taking process.

The software also comes as a Firefox/IE addon which means it will integrate with your browser and will appear as a purple leaf on the right side of the address bar. You can click the leaf icon to select the portion of the website and do the above mentioned operations on the selected image.

In summary, it is an easiest tool which we have right now for copying selected screen unless you don’t know that it all starts with a ‘Print Screen’ button.

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Skillbrains Deploying System

Software deploying process involves several actions: delivering to end user, installing, updating. First two actions are typically done by users. Keeping applications fresh however is software responsibility. Check out modern browsers’ updating systems (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox) for instance. Those systems will keep browsers up to date with minimal user interaction.
So we decide to have our own software updating system. Our goal was to make highly universal, not annoying updater with minimal system memory and processor time consumption.

Let’s take a look about our main points

• “The updater will be fully extruded to stand alone application”
It is the first point that we have postulated. That’s mean that we can add auto update feature to any application we want to. There are no special requirements to application that we want to keep fresh.
• “Updater will be ran by Windows Scheduler”
It is another major point. That’s mean updater will not resident in system memory all the time and consume processor time in background. It wills only running few seconds a day to check software status.
• “User will not be interrupted even if he works with application being updating”
And this one is the most important. Even if you are working with application in the very same moment when updater is updating it there would be no inconvenient. Update package will be downloaded and installed. Next time application will runs with fresh binaries.

Brief description how it works

There is separation between updater and application to update, as was mentioned before. So we have to maintain two installers one for application and one for updater. They are actually bundled together it requires little bit more size but much more handy for you.
Once updater is installed in the system it could be found at “{Program Files\Skillbrains\Updater}” directory. Also there will be couple of scheduler tasks created in Windows Task Scheduler one for updating per-user installed products and one for updating per-machine installed products.
Any future installations of any Skillbrains products will looks for updater presence and register themselves in it.

What if you don’t want your software to be updated?

Any time updater could be uninstalled from your box. That’s really simple you should open your windows “Programs and Features” wizard either via “Control Panel” or by running “appwiz.cpl” from command line. Look for “updater-1.3.0.10” there and uninstall it. That’s all.

It is easy to shutdown auto updates but please consider that auto updating is great way to keep your software fresh. We are rapidly adding new features our users asks as for and pushing them to users via update system.
Our updater is running via Windows Scheduler and do not consume process time or system memory all the time like other such systems, so it will not make your box even a bit slower.

Please post your comments so we can improve this system and make it better for you.

ShortURL in LightShot upload

LightShot is now even more useful! We are glad to present you prntscr.com short urls. Your screenshots will have short and nice URLs such as http://prntscr.com/25p6. They could be easily twitted and you still will have 117 symbols, or even 124 with http:// comitted. Let’s take a look.

I’ve found a great browser game and want to share it with my Twitter followers. Firstly I have to select an area for shooting:

Lightshot provides me with nice short url:

Next I opened this page and clicked by “Share via Twitter” link.

That’s all! Add some words and Twit it!

Prntscr.com also allows you to edit screenshot taken. You can do it by clicking such link or just add “/edit” to url like this http://prntscr.com/25p6/edit.

Easy area screenshot with LightShot for Firefox

Sometimes surfing the internet you need to make a screenshot of a webpage or a special area of it. Yes, you can just hit PrtSc and edit the screenshot to get what you finally need. But the thing is that you should spend much time doing boring editing work to get an area of the screenshot that you need. Why shouldn’t it be on your fingertips?

Yes, there are a lot of different Firefox extensions with huge variety of features for making screenshots. But I want to tell you about new FF addon that was developed with one main principle – to be as easy and intuitive as it possible and let a user to make screenshot when they want and how they want. This is the LightShot for Firefox.

With the LightShot you can easily get a screenshot from a webpage or a special selected area of it by clicking an icon or a hotkey (Alt+T). Once you perform one of these actions the screen becomes darker and you can select an area for taking a screenshot from:

Once you have selected the area you’ll see special buttons appeared near it:

With these buttons you can easily perform further actions with your screenshot.

From left to right: Edit screenshot, Upload it to server, Fullscreen, Copy to clipboard, Save to file, Close.

Edit screenshot

Clicking this button you’ll open online image editor bunch of powerfull options very similar to photoshop:

Upload screenshot

You can easily upload the screenshot to ImageShack server by clicking this button. It will show you upload progress:

And then in the same window you’ll get a short link to screenshot you’ve just uploaded that is very convenient:

So, you can share this link with your friends; paste it to chat, share on Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed… anywhere and easily, because it is short!

Fullscreen

Just hit this button and you’ll get all screen selected!

Copy to clipboard

One click and your screenshot is copied to the clipboard. But there is one trick, you can just hit Ctrl+C and your screenshot will automatically go to the clipboard without clicking any buttons.

Save to

With this button you can save your screenshot to one of three formats *.jpg, *png or *.gif. Moreover, you shouldn’t check the file format every time you save your screenshot. It will be saved automatically to the last format you’ve saved a screenshot before and it will be placed to the last folder you’ve saved a screenshot to last time. Plus, you can set a default format value in Lightshot addon options in Firefox:

Close

It will discard the process of screenshoting and bring you back to the initial view.

This addon don’t need any registration to start using options for editing and uploading screenshots. If you were searching for simple solution, you are welcome to use the LightShot!