Reference: Preferences

General Preferences

The General Preferences allow you to configure LittleSnapper's application-wide settings.

• Status Item: Launch at Login
  The status item 'Launch at Login' option is enabled by default to ensure that global shortcuts are always available for you to use and subsequent screenshots are added to your library automatically.

• Status Item: Quit when quitting LittleSnapper
  If left disabled the LittleSnapper status item will continue to run after you have quit the main application.

• Before Snapping Hide Main Window
  This option allows you to choose whether LittleSnapper should hide its main window whenever you launch one of the capture tools.

• After Snapping...
  Whenever you take a snap, you can choose to have LittleSnapper stay hidden, open in Icon view to view your library or open the current snap in Edit mode. You can also choose whether to show LittleSnapper or not.

• View image in / View source in
  LittleSnapper allows you to send snaps to external editors. These options allow you to configure which image and HTML editors are used to open saved snaps.

Figure 1: The General Preferences Window

Snapping

• Full Screen Snapping
  Use this preference to choose whether or not you would like to include the cursor in your snaps when you use full-screen snapping.

• Window Snapping
  By enabling this option you can easily include a drop-shadow in your window snapping.

• When Snapping Websites Play "Snapshot" Sound
  When using the LittleSnapper browser, you can turn on or off the snapshot sound played when a page is captured.

• Resolution
  The Snapping preferences also allows you to configure the resolution that LittleSnapper should use when capturing webpages using the 'Snap Web Address from Safari' browser option. A list of recent Mac models and their resolutions are included for easy reference, however if you wish to specify a custom resolution simply choose 'Custom' from the drop-down menu and enter the required dimensions.

• Enable LittleSnapper Browser Editing Use this preference to enable basic editing options in the browser that allow you to change text and other elements on the page.

Figure 2: The Snapping Preferences Window

Sidebar

With the Sidebar tab you can customise the sidebar to display which snap types you would like to display. You can also select the Small Icons checkbox to reduce the size of the icons in the sidebar as well as selecting how many Recent Searches you would like displayed.

Figure 3: The Sidebar Preferences Window

Shortcuts

The LittleSnapper preferences allow you to customise the global keyboard shortcuts for the options found in LittleSnapper's menu item. You can find a list of defaults at the end of this manual. If at any time you need to reset the keyboard shortcuts to the defaults that ship with the application, simply click the 'Reset Shortcuts' button.

Figure 4: The Global Keyboard Shortcuts Preferences Window

Publishing

The Publishing tab is where you set up and configure your account details for webservices you wish to publish to. Any accounts added here appear in the Share menus found in the Icon and Edit views.

LittleSnapper supports Ember, Flickr, FTP and SFTP accounts. To setup an account, simply click the [+] button, select the type of account you wish to add and follow the steps for each service type. You can add an unlimited number of sharing accounts. Remove accounts simply by using the '-' button, a dialogue will appear to confirm that you would like to remove the account and that the action can not be reversed.

You can also use the checkbox in these preferences to enable LittleSnapper to copy a recently uploaded URL to your clipboard, should you wish to use your URL in quick reference.

FTP Uploading

When setting up FTP accounts, be sure to enter a fully-formed web address including the http:// into the Web Address box. The Web Address should be the publicly-accessible location of the folder that LittleSnapper is uploading to, and is used to generate the web address of any images you upload.

Updates

To ensure you're always running the newest version of LittleSnapper, we strongly advise users to let the application check for new versions when you launch it. Sending Anonymous System Information is optional, however this provides us with useful information on which Mac models, and versions of Mac OS X our users are running. No personally-identifiable information is sent to Realmac Software when the anonymous system information option is checked.

Figure 5: The Updates Preferences Window

Advanced

The Advanced options allow you to customise your LittleSnapper library. LittleSnapper stores libraries in a '.lslibrary' file-format.

• Moving Your Library
  Use the relocate button to change the location of your LittleSnapper library. By default your library is stored in the ~/Library/Application Support/LittleSnapper/ folder with a Username.lslibrary filename, but it can be relocated to anywhere on your Mac (or to a shared location such as Dropbox).

• Creating a New Library
  You can create as many libraries as you would like by selecting this button. Each time you create a new library LittleSnapper will automatically choose the newly created library. In doing this LittleSnapper will prompt you that it needs to relaunch the application in order to load the new library.

• Opening An Existing Library
  Click 'Choose' to point LittleSnapper to the location of a different library other than the one that is currently loaded. In addition to this you can also drag libraries onto the LittleSnapper dock icon to open them.

  You will need to restart LittleSnapper in order for the change of library to be applied.

Figure 6: The Advanced Preferences Window