[Waterluvian]

One of the most powerful things in the mid 00s was having this app that automatically uploaded any screenshot on my Mac and put a URL in my clipboard. This also combined with the feature of the Mac to screenshot a specific area of the screen.

This was before the UX of sending images was trivial and the UX of this was so amazing that others asked me to help them set it up.

Mind you this was high school and university so it was for what are now called memes as well as homework related stuff. So no real fear of uploading work secrets or whatnot.

The other killer feature was turning on this ability to zoom in the whole screen with hot keys + mouse wheel. I used it CONSTANTLY. It was just a habit to zoom to the width of the actual website content, for example.

[lstamour]

Pretty sure the app was Skitch. https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/skitch-for-mac I used to love it for that feature too.

On Windows a similar app was Jing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jing_(software) but the Skitch app could also really easily add text, and had a neat way of dragging and dropping the tab containing the filename to save a file to a particular location or send it somewhere that you rarely see today. It wasn’t intuitive but it was easy once you knew how, like dragging the file icon from the window title bar (a hidden feature of only some document-based macOS apps).

Turning on zooming likely refers to https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT210978 which was a feature added to Snow Leopard (maybe) where you could hold the control key and use the mouse wheel or Magic Mouse to zoom in.

[perryizgr8]

> automatically uploaded any screenshot on my Mac and put a URL in my clipboard

This is built into windows nowadays and it's just so helpful. I cannot believe macos doesn't do it natively. I always have to browse to the desktop and the use the image. It's just Ctrl V on windows.

[Waterluvian]

A URL to a web hosted copy you can share with others?

For OSX you’ve always been able to screenshot right to clipboard.