Friday Pick: CloudApp

CloudApp is an awesome application, aimed at taking away  all of the dislikes of sharing links, images, music, videos and other files. What dislikes could there be, you ask? Let’s look at one easy example.

Say you are working with a client or coworker on an image design. You’re past the draft phase and have moved on to the pixel tweaks needed to get the job done. This involves reading your email, making the change, saving the image, grabbing the image in Finder, uploading it somewhere, obtaining a link, copy/pasting that link in an email and hitting send. Pretty easy, right?

Well, with CloudApp it is even easier! On a Mac (with the Screenshots Raindrop), you simply take a screengrab the way you normally would using ⌘+⇧+4 (Command + Shift + 4), select your image, wait a second for a ding (that’s CloudApp’s signal that the file has been saved, uploaded, and has copied a shortened URL to your clipboard), and then paste inside an email. Now that is a LOT easier.

Some of the coolest features are it’s ease of use, it’s URL shortening, keyboard shortcuts, drag-n-drop support, the archiving of all your drops, and a count of how many times those links have been clicked. It even has an API for you to use in your own applications. I also use Stratus, a pretty sweet CloudApp, um, app.

I’m still not completely sure how to use CloudApp to it’s fullest advantage, but I love how easy it is. I almost want it to do more, but I can’t think of what I would have it do…

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