Hands-on: LittleSnapper becomes Ember, with powerful collection features
The word “scrapbooking” may conjure visions of arts-and-crafts sessions for children with paper, scissors, and glue. But if you’ve ever done research for a project that required you to save data like images, videos, and webpages from different sources, you’re already familiar with the adult version of this activity.
To that end, Realmac Software on Tuesday released Ember (Mac App Store link), a $50 app aimed squarely at professional users who need to build a library with all sorts of digital information.
Quite the lineage
Ember is the successor to LittleSnapper, which has been around for many years and developed quite a following; true to its past, the app continues to allow you to take screenshots and annotate them with drawings or text; you can also rotate and crop the screenshots you take to make sure that the information you actually want to highlight is front and center.
In addition, the app also allows you to capture and store entire webpages, either directly through a built-in Web browser, or by subscribing to a site’s RSS feed. Once inside the app, the pages are treated like every other image, and can be manipulated by the same means. If you’ve ever done any kind of Web design work, the ability to just scribble and type some text on a document is going to be of great use—particularly when coupled with the app’s sharing features, which allow you to send any piece of data to a friend or colleague using a variety of methods.
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