Sparkbox - the repository of ideas for inspiration

One friend, professionally engaged in web design, asked me the best way to store screenshots of the pages. Over the years, he had taught himself to notice the good solutions, color schemes, user interface elements. First, to store ideas he used Flickr, which, however, quickly grew.

For Mac OS X, there are at least two applications that successfully cope with the task - Sparkbox and Little Snapper. And if they know about the latter, it seems, everything is about the opener should tell in detail.

Sparkbox - relatively new development. For some time, the program is distributed free in the Mac App Store. Now for her asking $ 19.99. That offers Sparkbox for the money:

• convenient storage of screenshots and illustrations. There are folders and tags that allow well-organized collection of inspirational ideas and easily find the most interesting solutions.
• opportunity to assess images on a 5-point system.
• favorites. If you are working on some serious problem, you can add to this section of the decision of colleagues and competitors. Then return to the ideas will be much faster.

In Sparkbox a built-in browser, with which you can make a screenshot of a web page. The developers have also released add-on for Safari. But it works pretty clumsy: simply launches the application and have it proposes to make a screenshot.

Sparkbox browser is also interesting in that it allows not only to make a screenshot of the page, but also to keep all or part of the picture with her. Imagine that hit the gallery of the best design work. It would be nice to save them to your library. With Sparkbox do it easily and quickly.

The most interesting feature Sparkbox - search images by color. To do this, the developers have written a special engine. application to use this feature easily. In the box there is a panel with different colors. Click on some color and the program will show all the pictures with him.

The main drawback Sparkbox - lack of image editing tools. Would be enough to base - the possibility to allocate land, to restore the arrow, etc., but none of that. The maximum that can make user - to add a comment to an image.

Buy Sparkbox possible in Mac App Store, available on the website trial-version with a test period of 15 days.

Download the Mac App Store: Sparkbox
cost of: $19.99
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 and above
Official site: Sparkbox