About the new LittleSnapper Menu Item
With yesterday's release of LittleSnapper 1.5.2 we totally re-worked how the LittleSnapper menu-item works. Sure, it looks the same and works in almost the same way as the last release of LittleSnapper. But it's not! The new menu item in version 1.5.2 is an entirely separate mini-application (known at Realmac HQ as NanoSnapper) that is able to run all the time, capture snaps and save them to your library without the main application itself running!
To set up the menu item to launch at login, make sure you're running LittleSnapper 1.5.2 (and that you don't have more than one copy on your system!). Simply open the LittleSnapper General Preferences (shown above) and ensure that you check the Status Item: Launch at Login option. If you previously added LittleSnapper to your startup items in the System Preferences -> User Accounts pane, you can now remove LittleSnapper from the list - though be sure to leave NanoSnapper if it's listed.
As you're probably aware, it's simply not possible for us to include a true dockless mode for LittleSnapper. However, feedback from users showed that most wanted to hide the dock icon and simply have the capture tools available - which this shiny-new menu item offers. Enjoy!
LittleSnapper 1.5.2 is now available!
We've been busy at work on updates to LittleSnapper and RapidWeaver, and today we're making LittleSnapper 1.5.2 available! There's plenty of small tweaks and improvements - as well as an all-new menu item that allows you to use LittleSnapper's capture tools (and keyboard shortcuts) without the main application being open.
The 1.5.2 update is available now through LittleSnapper's software update system, as well as via the Realmac Software downloads page.
A New Member of the Realmac Family
We're thrilled to announce today that Realmac Software has acquired EventBox from developers The Cosmic Machine! If you're not familiar with the application, EventBox brings all your social networks together into one convenient place. Supporting Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Google Reader and a host of other services, EventBox is a great product for keeping in touch with your contacts around the world.
We've long been fans of The Cosmic Machine's vision for the application, and want to build on EventBox's great start to make it rock even more. When we ship EventBox 1.0 in November, the application will be a Realmac Software product - and have a new name too: Socialite.
We're hard at work on getting Socialite ready for its big 1.0 debut, however if you want to find out more about the acquisition be sure to visit our product page or follow @SocialiteApp on Twitter for all the latest news!
Introducing the LittleSnapper Bookmarklet
If you've been paying close attention to Ember, you'll notice there's an option on all websnaps to 'Snap URL in LittleSnapper'. This option (which you can try out on this image) allows you to snap a fresh copy of the website instead of importing the copy that's shown on Ember. The new feature, which arrived in the LittleSnapper 1.5 update lets the Ember site launch LittleSnapper, and tells the application to snap the URL of the webpage.
As you can imagine, there's another handy use for this feature: a bookmarklet that lets you launch LittleSnapper and snap a page from within your browser! To install the bookmarklet, simply drag the link below to the bookmarks bar in your web browser.
Whilst we've got LittleSnapper open all the time here at Realmac HQ, we know that some people prefer not to have it running all the time and this little addition (along with another change that you'll be seeing in version 1.5.2) should make it just a little quicker to save pages to your LittleSnapper library regardless of how you run the application.