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Snippage Turns Any Site Into a Desktop Widget

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Andrew Incarnadine in Software

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Snippage is a desktop widget application designed on the Adobe Air platform that “snips” any portion of a website and places the clipping as an unobtrusive application on your desktop. Snippage quickly and easily enables access to your favorite information on the web, from news and weather to email and to-do lists.

Getting Started

The first step in acquiring Snippage is to download the 15.12mb Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) installer. AIR is provided free of charge by Adobe, the trusted makers of Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe Shockwave Player. AIR is available for both Windows and Macintosh.

Then, you must download the tiny 112kb Snippage installer package from the developer’s site. Upon opening Snippage, you will be faced with a simple screen directing you to click the arrow in the upper right hand corner of the Snippage application.

Using Snippage

Click the waiting arrow. Next, you are prompted to enter a URL, just as you do in a web browser. Enter the web address of your desired site.

To select a specific portion of the page, simply drag the Snipmark box around using the orange directional box in its top left hand corner. Notice that the rest of the page darkens and the segment about to be snipped is highlighted. The Snipmark box can also be increased or decreased in size with the orange box in its bottom right hand corner. Once you have selected your desired portion of the web site, click the scissors icon in the top right hand corner of the Snipmark box to snip the information.

The brown title bar above the snip remains for only a few seconds before kindly disappearing into the background. The title bar will only reappear if you hover over the snip with your mouse. There are several reasons you may wish to access the snip’s title bar.

• To make a new snip, simply click the + icon on the snip title bar. This is a quick and easy way to create a new snip without reopening the program.
• To force all links in your snip to open in a new window, click the circle to the right of the +.
• The refresh icon allows you to force the snip to refresh at a set interval of 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, or 3 hours. By default the snip is not set to automatically refresh.
• To expand the snip to browser view and view the site from which the snip originated, click the arrow icon at the far right of the snip’s title bar. Once in browser view, the snip can also be closed by clicking the “x” icon in the far right corner of the browser view title bar.

Developer Recommendations

Snippage can be used to save any portion of a website your heart desires. The developer makes two suggestions for Snippage’s use:

1.  Snip your favorite news site and keep up to date from the ease of your computer’s desktop.

2.  Access your favorite search engine from the convenience of your desktop.

Conclusion

Snippage makes it easy to take your favorite parts of the web and bring them to your desktop.  What would you bring to your desktop?

Article By Andrew Incarnadine, a Christian technophile who also authors The Incarnadine.

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Tags: adobe air, adobe air application, air, Snippage, widgets