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The first episode of our new interview / chat style show ‘IMP Chats’ this week featuring Chris Leydon from TinyGrab talking to us about this amazing little screen grab app and MacHeist

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 18:23 — 8.5MB)

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in a chat with a friend, and no matter what you do they don’t just get what you’re telling them about their computer, or vice versa. Put it down if you wouldn’t be able to solve that with a screenshot. The problem with that is getting the screenshot across the chat connection.

TinyGrab is a simple application with a web service attached that cuts out all the work. When you take a screenshot, TinyGrab uploads it to grab.by and copies the link to the clipboard. Unlike some other uploading sites, it doesn’t copy the link to a page with the image and some other content, such as ads. The link is to an image file, so you can (for example) embed it in a webpage or any chat that supports pictures. (more…)