Tag: SNAP

Windows 7 includes a whole slew of new built-in hotkeys. One set I find myself using quite a bit are the Aero Snap keys -- win + up, down, left, and right -- to quickly reposition application windows on my desktop. If you happen to use a Mac and you want the same functionality, Shift It can provide it. Launch the app, and it sits up in your status bar waiting for hotkeys to be pressed. ...

I admit it. I'm a little jealous of people who have an eye for design, and the patience to actually use it. For example, Twitter allows you to customize your homepage's wallpaper and the colors of various aspects of the page, but I've never bothered, even though I wish it looked as nice as some other people's. Well, as of today that's changed. A new tool from COLOURlovers called themeleon ...

Sometimes you want to look at several programs on your Windows desktop at the same time. So you resize Firefox, Word, Excel, and whatever else it is you're using, and then spend about 5 minutes trying to line them up to maximize your screen real estate. The whole process would be a lot easier if programs would just sort of snap together at the edges, wouldn't it? AllSnap is a utility that lets you ...

Snap is launching a new advertising platform today based on the company's popular Snap Shot service. Blogs and other websites using Snap Shots have a little icon next to all outgoing links on the page. Hover your mouse over the icon and you can see a preview of the destination page or media from sites like YouTube an Flickr. In other words, Snap Shots help you decide whether a link is worth ...

iReader lets users preview a links content before clicking on it. Unlike the somewhat annoying Snap, iReader is a browser extension that can be turned on and off by the user. Site previews can be really helpful in speeding up web surfing, and this application helps simplify them. iReader can give a list of text when links are moused over. Weeding out the good sites from the bad ones that you ...

If you've seen them, you've probably been annoyed by them. I'm talking about Snap's "Preview Anywhere," a little gizmo people can stick on their web site or blog that, when the visitor rolls the mouse over any link, will pop up a big bubble with a thumbnail image in it, giving them a preview of the destination site. Sounds kinda cool, right? Yeah, in theory. In practice, however, Snap Preview ...