In which I find a better Imgur screenshot uploading application

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… Well not much of a battle really, rather just some comments on my needs of an
Imgur uploader, what I’ve been using historically, and what I’m now going to be
using.

Screenshots are a powerful tool. I take many screenshots every day, to quickly
communicate something I’m working on, or show off something I’ve found, or even
just to share funny pictures of cats.

[IMAGE: https://blog.omgmog.net/images/cloudapp.png]

I used to pay for and use Cloudapp (https://www.getcloudapp.com/), and it was
great. You could use a custom domain, you could browse all of your uploaded
images, life was good. Then they changed their pricing model, this was not good.

[IMAGE: https://blog.omgmog.net/images/dropbox-public.png]

After that, I toyed with the idea of using my Public folder on Dropbox
(https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/16) to host images, but then felt burdened by:
a) not very nice urls, b) all of these transient images stuck on my Dropbox.

For the past 3 years I’ve been using Slingshot
(http://lifehacker.com/5820649/slingshot-makes-taking-screenshots-and-sharing-them-one-key-command-away)
to upload my screenshots to Imgur, and it has worked perfectly.

That is of course, until OS X Yosemite came along with it’s cool black menu bar,
and I found myself with a black system icon on a black bar.

[IMAGE: https://blog.omgmog.net/images/Screen-Shot-2015-09-11-at-13.55.00.png]

As Mavericks brought with it signed applications
(https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html), I
couldn’t simply change the icon resource myself
(even though I created some white icons (https://github.com/omgmog/slingshot-white-icons)),
so I reached out to the developer, but he had since stopped developing
Slingshot, and so wouldn’t be bringing a white icon variant to Slingshot for
Yosemite.

Thankfully, I’ve had Bartender (http://www.macbartender.com/) to help since
then, allowing me to hide the icon while allowing Slingshot to retain entirely
functional (if just a bit ugly).

[IMAGE: https://blog.omgmog.net/images/Screen%20Shot%202015-09-11%20at%2013.56.00.png]

Today I came across mac2imgur (https://github.com/mileswd/mac2imgur), it’s
functionally identical to Slingshot
(in that it watches for screenshots and uploads them, before then copying the URL to your clipboard),
free, open source, and it even features a nice white icon for the black Yosemite
menu bar.

[IMAGE: https://blog.omgmog.net/images/Is%20this%20meta%20or%20what.gif]

So I’m done with Slingshot – viva mac2imgur!

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Published September 11, 2015

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Max Glenister is an interface designer and senior full-stack developer from
Oxfordshire. He writes mostly about front-end development and technology.

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