The DesktopTweet application was designed to be a small utility for your PC that lets you take snapshots of your computer screen and then automatically tweet them to Twitter, all within a matter of seconds!
Normally, if you wanted to upload a picture of your screen onto Twitter, you'd have to take the picture manually, crop it up in a program like Photoshop, save it out to a file, and then manually upload it to a Twitter picture service. Given the average length/lifespan of a standard tweet, this seems like quite a bit of effort!
DesktopTweet makes this process a little easier by automating pretty much everything I said above there! All you have to do is draw out a box of the part of the screen you want to snap, and then write out a tweet to accompany it. DesktopTweet will handle the rest.
DesktopTweet was an idea I had while working on a project on my PC. I was building a 3D model in LightWave, and thought it would be cool to post a quick WIP shot onto my Twitter account. However, given I had to fire up Photoshop, and then log into the TwitPic homepage before I could even start to upload it, by the time it was actually online, I had already completely lost my train of thought with my model!
So, since the whole point of Twitter is to quickly and easily post small tidbits of info quickly, I figured that there must be an easier way to upload screencaps than doing all of that stuff manually each and every time. So with that in mind, I laid down the code framework of what eventually became DesktopTweet.
Here are some key features of "DesktopTweet":
· Lets you capture portions of the screen using a drag and drop box to define the region. (You can also choose to snap the whole screen)
· Conversely, it can also upload any JPEG, GIF or PNG on your hard drive.
· Uploads your pictures directly to your account on an online Twitter picture service! (Current services are TweetPhoto, TwitrPix, Twitgoo, TwitPic, yfrog, Pikchur and Posterous)
· Saves snapped pictures to either your computer or the clipboard.
· Gives the choice of uploading pictures to the service, but not posting a tweet at the same time.
· Option to override 'Printscreen' and 'Alt-Printscreen' hotkeys to send their pictures to DesktopTweet.
· Uses multithreaded architecture to quickly and quietly upload your pictures in the background
· Option to save pictures to your computer in the event the upload fails.
· Lets you set DesktopTweet to start-up on Windows boot.
Requirements:
· .NET Framework 2.0
· Twitter account
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Support for the TweetPhoto and TwitrPix image services (Taking the total number up to 7 now).
· Ability to also choose to tweet the whole screen, or an image from your hard drive (JPEG/GIF/PNG).
· 2 new hotkeys for the above commands.
· The option to override the ‘Printscreen’ and ‘Alt-Printscreen’ key commands so they get sent to DesktopTweet.
· While writing the tweet, images can be saved to file as PNG, or copied to the clipboard.
· There is now a choice of having images uploaded, but not posting a tweet link on Twitter.
· If the upload unexpectedly fails, a choice for saving the picture to disk will appear.
· Tied up some loose odds and ends in the code.
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