It hasn't taken long for Skitch to become part of our team's kit-bag and vocabulary - so much that we've even coined a term for when skitch gets used to shame someone into fixing problems with their work.
I proposed the following definition, backed up with examples on our internal blog recently:
(v) skitchslap: the act of denigrating something by annotating a screenshot or image of it, using skitch. "Man, my CSS didn't work in IE7 - got majorly skitchslapped for it".For example, this
was an attempt to vent my frustration at ThePlugin not telling me why it couldn't connect to Crucible.Sometimes a skitchslap requires the arrow tool to help over emphasize the point
or my personal favourite:
A couple of well placed circles over a shot:
is often enough to leave a developer feeling like they've just been 'Barry Halled':
Skitchslapping is by no means, nor should it be limited to our own software. Charles has already taken a lead here with this little gem:
In posting this, I knew I'd receive at least a bit of skitchslapping, but wasn't quite prepared for what did ensue:
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Barry Hall, skitchslapping and meta skitching.
So glad to have found your secret blog hideout Sir Pellow.
By Tim Lucas at April 23, 2008 1:54 AM
:)) I enjoy your humour!
By Nanda Firdausi at April 23, 2008 12:44 PM
Thanks for the blogpost Nick! - Always great to see realworld usage of Skitch in the developer world.. we made it to solve this exact problem for ourselves :-)
Do you guys use it with the Skitch.com service or your own ftp or .Mac or a mix?
Cheerio from Canberra (some of the team is in Melbourne and Tassie too.. as well as the US, Norway, France, Brazil...!)
/Keith
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By Keith Lang at April 24, 2008 12:50 AM
Hi Keith,
We are primarily using it with Skitch.com . I wasn't aware it could be used with FTP, until now.
After investigating this, I see you can also Skitch to WebDAV! Internally, we've toyed with writing a JIRA-Plugin for Skitch. Maybe a Skitch-Plugin for JIRA would be a nicer way to go!
Thanks for an awesome tool!
Cheers,
Nick
By Nick Pellow
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April 24, 2008 1:07 AM
Shameless plug: you can now do the same sort of annotated screenshotting on Windows - I have created an app called Mazio (http://code.google.com/p/mazio/) for this. Try it, it is free!
By Janusz Gorycki at August 14, 2008 4:18 AM