Great stuff! I’ve been thinking of a similar application myself. Any chance that you’ll share the source with the community or make it available for sale? I can think of a few derivate works I might make based on this outstanding start…

Thanks Amador,
1) Currently, only GET forms are supported for external linking. Forcing POST forms to open in external windows is a bit trickier but I’ll look into it.
2) I set the shortest refresh timer to 10 min because I didn’t want people using this app to hammer on sites. But I guess there’s plenty of other ways to do that. I’ll add the 5 min option to the next release.
3) Tabbed or multi-page snips kinda go against the “At a Glance” functionality I was originally going for with Snippage. But I feel your pain. My desktop is currently covered with snips so I might need to come up with some way of managing them. Maybe a snip docking system?

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Hi, firstly, it’s great AIR app, congrats. Next, i got 1 bug report… when you set your “snippet” with scollbars usage (use scrollbars to find you area), after refresh positions of scrollbars are not remembered. it refresh area but scrollbars position is 0 (page is in 0,0 pos) I hope you know what I mean

Once more, great app Gabo

I was intrested in researching this tool and you plug-in but when I went to install System Access: lists as unrestricted: This application may access your file system and the internet, which may put your computer at risk.

I work internet security for a living and this level of access is concerning. I’ve been trying to find if there are any tools to change this security concern?

Just posting this to reiterate Liwenzhi’s and Franto’s comments before me. I just would like to know when this is going to be fixed or if ever…:) Great tool btw! Love it.

@Gabo re TekQ
It is indeed something you will see with any AIR based application install. The message is deliberately slightly scary – this is a desktop application you are installing, and so is not constrained by the same security sandbox model that is apparent in browser based Flash Player content. The warning is there to make that explicit. As with *any* desktop application, if you don;t trust the publisher, don’t install it. Application built on AIR *are* potentially malicious, or rather, if the auther were malicious, they would be able to compromise your security. Hence also the ability to have the application signed by a certificate from VerisSign.

Best

Pete

I made some snippets, and saved those to the desktop as a .snipset file.
I assumed when I double-clicked that, the snips would be opened.
However, I am getting the default Snippage brown screen, am I missing something?

I would not want to reconfigure snips every time I start the snippage app, and for a number of reasons, i do not want the snippage app running continuously on my desk.

Raj

Hello Just provide me how can make a desktop widget?

Great jobe done! Congratulations!
Some issues:

When i request the update to 10 minutes or any other time, during the refresh it opens a insntance of firefox the same way.

Always open the firefox browser every refresh…

Something you can tell about that, theres a way to fix it?

btw: gooooood job!

Doesn’t work (doesn’t refresh forum’s pages)

Excellent application. However, I’m experiencing problems with cyrillic encoding.

Great product…If i snip my enterprise wiki home page, no problems with security? My password?

Thanks

Hello
what’s the font of the “snippage” app title here?
the app is nice..

I am looking at your app and find it ‘potentially’ useful.

Unfortunately my use for it requires a smaller refresh interval.
I understand your stance on ‘not hammering websites’ but you said you were going to make the minimum 5 min…

And you said that like a year ago.

I was wondering if you intend to install that function in the near future or if you have in ways moved on to bigger better things…

Just curious.

no flash or java?

great app, not so sure if i’m using it for productivity but hey what is the internet for anways! lol. anyways a quick “thingy”, is there a way to embed the app into my desktop? reason being is am a huge fan of the show desktop button, but it effectively minimizes the snipped page as well, and its a bit tricky to bring back up. any suggestions?

Thanks!

THANK’S A LOT!
VERY NICE APPLICATION!
Several questions:
1. I can’t find Snippage in the taskbar. So any new snip only accessible from desktop. It’ll very useful to have it in the taskbar and also have the list of snips in the Snippage icon in the same taskbar.
2. Can I save the snip stand-alone?

Hi, can you elaborate a bit about how you created snippage – did you do it with flex, html or flash? and how did you go about making the awesome animations?

thanks

Hey,

Thanks for the great app. I spent almost the whole day looking for a windows alternative to the Macintosh Leopard web clips dashboard. I’m really surprised there wasn’t a gadget for Google Desktop / Vista Sidebar.
Anyway, I would love it if you added a minimize button, or even better, add it as a gadget, or at least have a command (like double shift with Google Desktop) so you can hide everything.

Love your work.

Thanks.

I tried it with WoW’s realm status page and it just doesn’t load. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmstatus/?rhtml=y

Very good idea, love it already. A couple of comments:
1) When someone clicks the + – make new snip, they have to click one more time to get to the full browser view needed to browse to the page they want to “snip”. If I have understoodthis right, it might be a good idea to open the “make new snip” in browser view directly, thus saving that one little click that either is just a click OR a complicating feature making Snippage a little more difficult for firsttime users. (I know it says “Click me!”, but why not do it for them?:-)
2) Maye the “close this snip could be shown in snip view?
3) If users have a lot of snips, as you also comment, maybe a sniplist where you can minimize snips be an idea? If you have 3 snips useful at work and 3 other snips you use at home, you could “switch” by minimizing and snip-showing depending on your mode.

Keep up the good work!

It will be great if refresh time can be self-defined

This is a excellent app. Would be handy if users could resize there images. Something like you use to be able to do with active desktop. Looking forward to see how this program progresses. Thanks!!!

im wonder if there are any bowser work like Snippage…
btw, my Snippage cannot work with Flash,
i want my Snippage show the following link in my desktop:
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/show

any suggestion? thanks

Useful, I installed, but there is a little bit, not very good, has cut the scope of surveillance can not be fixed, will be rolling and moving with the mouse, but also need to re-select, what range of options after they fixed, that is, do not scroll with the mouse while mobile?
Principle is very simple, that is, the establishment of an active desktop page Bale
Thank you, very good invention, looking forward to an updated version of the emergence

Hi, I have by mistake placed the Snippage program at the very bottom of the desktop. When the titlebar then auto hides the program disappears below lower most view, and seems to be lost.
Anybody knows a way of “finding” the program again ?

Thanks

Brgds
Søren

this is great! i use it to keep my Google Task list on my desktop at all times – i’ve gotten SO MANY questions about how i do it, i can’t count! keep up the good work.

I think I already know the answer to this, but will it run with the 64bit (default) sidebar.exe in Windows 7 64bit?

If not, is there any way we can get a version that is coded in something other than Adobe Air?

I love the idea, and thanks for writing it.

I think i discovered a bug. I have the snip on 10 min refresh, and that’s fine. and when it refreshes, it goes back to the right part of the page, however the “open in new window” button reverts back to “open in snip” every refresh. Maybe not a bug, but weird nontheless.

Otherwise, great app! I like the idea and implementation very much. Thanks.

I downloaded this…tried to make a snippet for desktop, ended up way too big…but question is…how do you delete one of these snippets? HELP…it’s covering 1/4 of my screen.

Not sure if this has been covered, but is it possible to add a “mute” button to the snipped window? It sure would be handy. thanks for your effort, this is great.

I love Snippage on first inspection but can someone help me with this please: After 30 minutes of figuring out how to make a snip (I couldn’t find any INSTRUCTIONS!) I successfully made one on my desktop – COOL! But after clicking on the link in the snip the site opens GREAT but after closing the site the snip has shifted a little so that I can only open the site by first expanding the snip because the link has shifted off of the snip. Is there a way to keep the snip exactly how I cut it off of the page and not “shifting” a little? And are there any instructions for using Snippage somewhere. And one last thing – What is the refresh or auto refresh feature and what does that do for the user? Can someone give me a little advise. Snippage is an application that looks really USEFUL and a great time saver but I’m not clear on how to use it. THANKS so much in advance for any help.