Top Tool Tips
Do you write proposals? do bug testing? or write books? post blogs? or just need screen shots to help explain what you mean?
If Yes then you need the latest version of SnagIt by TechSmith. In it’s version 9 release SnagIt has moved from being just a good screen capture applet to being a fantastic, indispensable application that every good developer, author, tester etc etc should have installed.
It’s only when you start to use the new features without noticing you realise what a great piece of software you are using. Having installed the V9 release a few weeks ago I initially liked the OneClick pop-up that made switching capture modes a breeze, but what I have found most useful is how SnagIt now keeps all my captures for me – no more having to save/or losing that key image.
The Library view showing this weeks captures. Whats really cool is any annotations are all stored and can be edited. No more saving as a PNG and then having to fudge the text using Paint.
Tags
I only found this today, the ability to Tag captures using simple icons and allowing you to get find them quickly.
Whilst we’re on the subject of tools
Writing this blog post it suddenly dawned on me how many tools (all by different creators) I was using to bring this post to you.
To capture the screen shots. I have tweaked this slightly and added another Program to the SnagIt Send to that allows me to send captures directly to Flickr Uploadr.
Making uploading images to Flickr just that little bit easier. Why upload to Flickr you may ask, well I user Windows Live Writer to author my blog posts
This is one of the best bits of software anyone could install if they are serious about blogging. The ability to link to multiple blogs, be able to recall existing blog posts for editing and correcting (yes it does happen).
Here you can see me authoring this very blog post.
But wait wasn’t I telling you why I used Flickr? Yes, and if you look closely at the right hand menu you will see some nice Insert options, one of which is Insert Flickr Image.
This neat plug in allows you to insert Flickr images directly from Flickr, normally this is defaulted to my account but you can also insert others.
There are many more tools that I use day to day, some more aimed at development some at just getting things done. Hopefully this Top Tool Tips post will help you become a better blogger 
