I’ve been posting a few screen shots lately from Del.icio.us and other services on the web. I generated these screen shots using an awesome program called “SnagIt”:2 which is written by the folks at “TechSmith”:1. I’ve been using SnagIt for years now, and it keeps getting better and better with each release.

SnagIt can capture images, text, web pages, video and printer output (although I just use it for image capture). In addition, it has a basic image editor and browser and can do batch conversions. Heck, they even have a Firefox “extension”:3 for SnagIt.

Overall, it’s very easy to use — even its more advanced features (like edge effects) are super simple to use. If you’re looking for a great screen capture utility, I highly recommend TechSmith’s SnagIt.

[3(SnagIt Firefox extension)]http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/firefox.asp

[2(SnagIt home page)]http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp

[1(TechSmith home page)]http://www.techsmith.com/

Categories on blogs are totally useless. If you create a reasonable number — say like 10 or so so they’ll fit in the “sidebar”:10 — sooner or later all of your categories are going to be full of *LOTS* of posts. For example, in my “old blog”:1 I had one category (”Biz - Internet”) that already had 48 posts in it — _in only four months_! So when you click on the link to “Biz - Internet”:2 you get a page back with *48* posts. Useless!

I want tags… as in some “folksonomy”:3. I want to *tag* my posts, _not_ categorize my posts. I want a page like “this”:4, except specific to my posts. Kind of like “Del.ici.ous”:5, but for posts instead of bookmarks.

Come on Yahoo!, you bought Flickr… make this happen in your “blogging”:6 effort. It’d be cool. The “WordPress”:7 people should make this happen too. Oh, and “Typepad”:8 and “MSN”:9. Come on!

So, gin up some UI and some cool post tagging “bookmarklets”:11 and “giddy up”:12!

[1 (Link to old MovableType blog)]http://www.zoinger.com/old_blog.html

[2 (Zoinger Biz Internet archive)]http://www.zoinger.com/archives/biz_internet/

[3 (Wikipedia folksonomy link)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy

[4 (Flickr popular tags page)]http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/

[5 (Link to Del.icio.us -- tagging for your bookmarks)]http://del.icio.us
[6 (Yahoo! 360 -- A good name)]http://360.yahoo.com

[7 (WordPress -- Totally cool blogging software)]http://www.wordpress.org

[8 (Typepad -- Totally cool, turnkey blogging service)]http://www.typepad.com

[9 (MSN Spaces -- Millions served daily!)]http://spaces.msn.com

[10 (Wikipedia -- Sidebars explained)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidebar

[11 (Del.icio.us -- About page with some bookmarklets)]http://del.icio.us/doc/about

[12 (Hum... that early 90s sitcom)]http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10002000/10002122.jpg