Skitch

As a blogger here on TUAW I probably take an unusually high number of scree hots. I always have Grab and ImageWell ru ing, so I can ag some pics of we ites or of a in action. That is, I always had Grab/ImageWell ru ing, until I visited Plasq's booth on the Macworld showfloor.

Move over ImageWell: I have a new love, and its name is Skitch. Skitch is currently in a very private beta (we're talking single digit users at the moment), but the good folks at Plasq a ure me that more info will be available next week. Skitch simplifies the way you take scree hots on your Mac. Think of it as a WYSIWYG scree hot taker (that's What You See Is What You Get) with the added bonus of making uploading those pics to a remote server (via FTP, SFTP, .Mac, or Flickr to name a few) dead simple. And it doe 't stop there; Skitch can also take pictures using your iSight and allows you to add text, doodles, and arrows to those images (and each of those elements is i erted onto its own layer, but Skitch handles all that... you need not interact directly with the layers).

Read on for a scree hot, though it really doe 't tell the whole story of this i ovative UI.

As you can see, Skitch won't make you look any better, but it does have a great interface (and notice those very cool arrows). I'll be writing more about this clever a in the near future (when Plasq has more info for public co umption) but I can say this is the coolest thing I have seen at Macworld that i 't an iPhone.