WindowClippings And Skitch

I don’t know if if you know Skitch, but it’s a tool to share images from your desktop with people online. It’s sort of a fancy screenshot tool with the ability to post to the web (there’s more to it, but that’s all that matters for now). Pretty handy, but the problem is that it’s Mac only.

I use a similar tool on my Vista installation: WindowClippings by Kenny Kerr. Basically a fancy screenshot maker, but it’s a lot better than the standard tools in Vista, so I use it quite a lot. The best part is: it supports addins.

And so I decided to create a “Send To Skitch” addin for WindowClippings. Skitch has a maildrop function: send a mail with an image to a specific skitch.com mail address and it appears in your skitch stream. It’s currently the only way for non-Mac users to have the Skitch experience. But combine the Skitch maildrop functionality with the SendTo addin function of WindowClippings and we’ve got magic:

You have to provide some settings, of course: first of all the email address of the skitch maildrop (you can lookup this up in the maildrop section of your skitch settings) and secondly the hostname of the smtpserver to use to send the mail. There’s no way to find this out automatically easily, and it works for me for now,  so I’ll leave it at that. I might create a webservice that sends the mail for me, so that I don’t have to bother with the smtp server, but that’s maybe something for a next version. You can set both settings in the “Add-In Settings” of the Skitch addin. There’s no checking if these are actually correct, so when you’re not getting uploads in your skitch stream, the values you provided might be wrong.

Anyway, you can download the DLL here. Place it in the same folder as WindowClippings.exe, choose “Register Addin” in the Addins tab, select the SendToSkitchAddIn.dll. The Addin should now appear. It’ll say: inactive, because you didn’t provide any email+server combination. Fill those in (using the Add-In settings button) and you’re set.