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TinyGrab Review

6 Comments 07 November 2009

Tinygrab is an application that uploads your screenshots. If that sounds simple, that’s because it is.
You simply run the app in the background, and when you take a screenshot, the normal way (cmd+shift+4)it uploads it; either to grab.by or your own custom FTP server!

It’s extremely simple to use, and has a Windows counterpart, and an iPhone companion in the works.
It also allows you to upload images that aren’t screenshots. You can either drag the image into the dock icon, if you have it enabled, or click on the menubar icon, and then click Upload Image. Very useful if you want to quickly share images.


I think the big feature that lots of people will find useful, is the custom FTP.
You can have TinyGrab point to your own FTP server! Say you had one like “http://amuse.me/” and you pointed TinyGrab toward your FTP server, it would upload it to the server, and then (should you select it in the Preferences) copy it to your clipboard.

You can also tell it to do one of these three things after uploading:

  • Move it to the trash
  • Move to… *select*
  • Do Nothing
  • ..which is extraordinarily useful, as with screenshots you used to always have clutter on your desktop, or on the destination you can choose via Terminal. I thought, seeing as it’s related to TinyGrab screenshots, I would tell you how to do this.
    Open Terminal and type this:

    defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/"

    (obviously change where appropriate)
    Then log out, and log in again.


    Anyway, back to TinyGrab.

    There’s an online control panel, just go to tinygrab.com And click Control Panel. Then Sign In. From here you can edit your Grabs (url’s, descriptions, name, disable/enable short url), change your account info, get an Overview, see your grabs, and (if you have Premium) Search through them.
    It’s a very well organised online Control Panel.

    The speeds of TinyGrab are insane. You could upload a 1280 x 800 .png within 10 seconds. It’s blazing fast!

    TinyGrab runs on an account system, rather than a Serial Number system.

  • A Free account is, unbelievably, free; but is limited. You get 10 uploads a day, not unlimited,  and you can’t organise them online, upload to FTP servers, or search through grabs.
  • Premium has unlimited images a day, Unlimited image uploads forever, upload to custom FTP server, and you can search through grabs.
  • Now normally this would be £10, but if you go to MacHeist their FREE bundle of 6 apps, NanoBundle, includes TinyGrab! And you get a Premium account forever!
    Even at £10 it’s most definitely worth it.
    So what are you waiting for? Go and get this shining beauty of an app!

    Your Comments

    6 Comments so far

    1. I'd love to know what you thought of the review!

    2. It isn't a very bad review at all. Pretty neat application, by the way. Although I think you guys at TechXav really have to get a gallery plugin or something similar that I have at LaptopMemo. It would also be good it you could all watermark your shots, like I do.

    3. Christian says:

      What screen capture do you guys use? :)

    4. I used TinyGrab :) Just did CMD + SHFT + 4 and then pressed Space (it then captures windows)
      I hope I helped!
      Matt.

    5. Christian says:

      Thanks for your quick reply :) Actually, TinyGrab is really2x awesome. I also tried it, and thanks for the nice review!

    6. Christian says:

      Thanks for your quick reply :) Actually, TinyGrab is really2x awesome. I also tried it, and thanks for the nice review!


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    This post was written by Matthew Lowery who has written 6 posts on TechXav.

    Matt is a 13-year-old tech-addict from England. He spends a lot of his time on Twitter, creating designs in Photoshop, or coding websites in Espresso.

     

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