For those of us that like to share our favorite treasuries from Etsy, web applications or useful websites with our readers on our blog, Kwout is an online service that will save much time and sanity for you. It allows you to take a screenshot of a particular webpage, crop the page as needed and post it to flickr, mail to an inbox or post anywhere as an embeddable code. The advantage is that this is all done from your browser with no need to save the screenshot to your desktop, or use an image editor to crop the area you want.

Easy to use, just add the little bookmarklet to your browser, and click when needed. Scroll to the bottom of the Kwout main page and chose one of the two bookmarklets (depending on if you would like the screenshot to open in a new window or not when you use it) and drag it to your bookmarks toolbar (or right click and “bookmark this link”). There is also a handy Firefox Extension, if you’re big into those.

When you are on a website you would like to get a screenshot of, go to your bookmarks and chose Kwout. You will then be shown a picture of the webpage with instructions on how to crop to your liking. Once you hit “cut out” you will be taken to the next page of configurable options and posting instructions.

Then post your cropped image. Couldn’t be easier!

I’ve decided that more productive and faster-loading computer programs are not what I want. To hell with efficiency. When would I get in my daydreaming if not while waiting for photoshop to open?

I forgot to blog about it, but a little while ago I added a wimpy player to this site on the right sidebar, mostly for the purpose of being able to access some music and audiobooks of mine over the web, but also to share with you some music and stories I listen to as I create. “What’s your creative soundtrack” is a popular question in art forums, so I thought I’d show rather than tell.  You can listen to the files on your own computer via this site as you work, and I’ll be uploading more soon. I think I’ll concentrate on the audiobooks for now since I am kind of on n audiobook kick right now. I have several full, unabridged books now in the library - just scroll down to the player (the little iPod thingy) and navigate like a real iPod.

If you want to get your own, it is a simple script with a very reasonable price and it’s super-easy to install, skin and upload music. No, they aren’t paying me to write that, I just like the player.

This guy’s brilliant…

I just found this hilarious site via Shelterrific and spent the last hour looking it through from top to bottom. “It’s Lovely, I’ll Take it!” is a site dedicated to some of the more questionable choices home selllers make in photographing and listing their houses, including terrible, blurry pictures that don’t really show anything about the house, evidence of obsessive-compulsive behavior, dirty bathrooms (with the unflushed toilet in the frame) and rooms that have clearly just had a frat party roll in through them. I mean, really, would it take that long to pick up the trash a little before snapping the pic? And what’s with the giant dog?