I've posted before about LittleSnapper, a screen capture utility for the Mac. I've just downloaded their latest version, which includes some very strong improvements. I especially like the ability to automatically sort the captures in your library by type: Screenshot, Websnap, Photo, Illustration, Mockup, iSight (camera capture), iPhone (screen capture), and other; the ability to create collections, save searches, maintain smart search folders; and I also like the enhanced tagging features.
Additionally, the new online Ember operability enhancements are awesome! Who ever would have thought about building social networks around screen capture?! Well, they did. You also have flickr upload and ftp upload capacity. They have also added some helpful screencasts on tips for use.
LittleSnapper is a great app for managing your computer and iPhone screen captures!
NetNewsWire for the Mac and FeedDemon for the PC are undoing a big transition. I'm not sure I am all that enthusiastic about this as I will lose two functions I use a lot: embedding live blog rolls on blogs and being able to create clippings folders that generate their own RSS feeds to which others can subscribe.
The stated reason for the change: the new feed readers will now sync with Google Reader instead of NewsGator's online service, which will only continue to exist for their enterprise clients. Newsgator claims this was their most requested feature. Hmm...
And, just for fun, using Little Snapper to capture the web address for "the connected scale" by Withings, I present the ultimate humiliation: a beautiful, elegant bathroom scale that is WiFi enabled, talks to your iPhone, and publishes you weight and body fat index (BMI) to the web and your iPhone. It will automatically recognize up to eight users and generates detailed graphs.
I predict we are going to see an onslaught of very personal and practical technological convergence over the next few years: embedding microchips in any- and everything and connecting it to the web. Your scale will just be the beginning.
Patientslikeme and similar services will begin to connect patients and medical machinery to other patients and their doctors' iPhones. Don't sneer, one such system has already been FDA approved allowing physicians to monitor your well being while you are connected to medical contraptions in intensive care no matter what dinner party they are attending.
Will the San Francisco parking grid will tell your iPhone where the nearest empty parking place is to where you currently are? Maybe soon it will also issue a ticket if you stay past the metered time.
An electric motorcycle is in development that uses the iPhone as a snap-in dashboard.
Use your iPhone to monitor your baby and send you an SMS when the child wakes up or becomes noisy.
iPhoto sports a rather astounding level of accuracy with facial recognition technology. Soon every photo will actually be able to tag itself by identifying the people in the photo while knowing exactly where you were when you took it.
Just this week a stolen iPhone was identified as the "alleged" thief was walking with it down the street. The police just followed the pulsing dot on the computer screen until they identified the very pocket it was in and the teenager with that pocket.
Collect and then pile all of the data together online, mash it up this way and then that, and we can know everything about you without even knowing you at all. Won't that just be grand!
