{"id":329,"date":"2006-03-28T00:43:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T00:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/28\/UsefulSoftwareAGreatToolForWebOrSoftwareUIDesigners.aspx"},"modified":"2006-03-28T00:43:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T00:43:17","slug":"useful-software-a-great-tool-for-web-or-software-ui-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/28\/useful-software-a-great-tool-for-web-or-software-ui-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful software: A great tool for web or software UI designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Have you ever had to:<BR>a.&nbsp;take a screen shot of just part of your screen<BR>b.&nbsp;try to match your web page color to something on your screen<BR>c.&nbsp;figure out how wide to make a div or table cell<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Working as a program manager at Microsoft typically means you take a lot of screen shots.&nbsp; Screen shots of web pages, screen shots of application prototypes and (yes) screen shots of screen shots.&nbsp; There are a ton of tools out there that do a number of these functions, some free, some not.&nbsp; My current favorite tool happens to also have my current favorite price.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.bayden.com\/mezer\/\">Mezer Tools from Bayden Systems<\/A> is a free little app with a very appropriate icon: a Swiss Army knife.&nbsp; This great, multi-purpose tool has widgets for measuring linear pixel dimensions and capturing arbitrary rectangles.&nbsp; The dialog box also has additional tools for converting to and from Hex and for grabbing colors from anywhere on the screen.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/61838802-M.jpg\"><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/61838802-Ti.jpg\" align=baseline border=0><\/A>&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/61838803-M.jpg\"><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/61838803-Ti.jpg\" align=baseline border=0><\/A><BR><EM><FONT size=1>Screenshots (made with Mezer, of course), click for a closer look.<\/FONT><\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Here&#8217;s a list of some of the cool stuff you can do:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Double-click the edge of a window to grow to the edge of the screen (not maximize)<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Capture a target window or just an arbitrary section of screen<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Capture screen to clipboard or directly to .JPG or .BMP<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Flag screen captures with arrows or scribbles<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Copy arbitrary string lengths to clipboard<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Measure the number of characters in the clipboard<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Grab the hex and RGB values from any location on the screen<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Convert from hex to decimal and back<\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had to:a.&nbsp;take a screen shot of just part of your screenb.&nbsp;try to match your web page color to something on your screenc.&nbsp;figure out how wide to make a div or table cell Working as a program manager at Microsoft typically means you take a lot of screen shots.&nbsp; Screen shots of web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usefulsoftware","tag-useful-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}