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chucksense started following the question "Problems with Drobo Freezing up Mac OS X 10.5.7" in Hawkeye Trader.

chucksense shared an idea in Poll Everywhere on May 14, 2009 13:46:

Any plans to make a voting iPhone app?

I think an iPhone app would be a really neat way for users to interact with Poll Everywhere.

chucksense started following the question "iphone app?" in lala.

chucksense replied on April 09, 2009 20:11 to the idea "Could you add enabled/disabled icons for the menu bar?" in RescueTime:

Woohoo, 2.0 has this. Happy days are here!

chucksense started following the idea "Could you add enabled/disabled icons for the menu bar?" in RescueTime.

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chucksense shared an idea in Savvy Circle on March 23, 2009 16:39:

Add B&H

Please add B&H to your list of stores.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

chucksense started following the idea "Screenshots of Web Pages (full length)" in plasq.

chucksense marked one of Jaymis' replies in plasq as useful. Jaymis replied to the problem "Skitch is really slow and using 98-99 under CPU in Activity Monitor".

chucksense replied on February 13, 2009 18:48 to the problem "Skitch is really slow and using 98-99 under CPU in Activity Monitor" in plasq:

Clicking away from the Pictures folder fixed this instantly.

Holy cow, clicking off of Aperture in the photos menu (onto iPhoto instead, which has hardly anything) makes the performance of Skitch bearable again! It's still chugging along with a ton of CPU usage, but at least it's usable again.

Thank you Jaymis! Plasq: any ideas about when this might be fixed?

chucksense replied on January 12, 2009 19:13 to the problem "Skitch is really slow and using 98-99 under CPU in Activity Monitor" in plasq:

Ugh, the problem has returned a week later. Is there another way to fix this without trashing prefs files? I don't want to have to reconfigure Skitch every week.

chucksense replied on January 05, 2009 19:36 to the problem "Skitch is really slow and using 98-99 under CPU in Activity Monitor" in plasq:

Yep this did the trick and I also didn't lose my history. Well done, Keith, and thanks!

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hi Chuck, sorry we managed to overlook your note here. :-(

Perhaps try re-downloading Skitch.app and deleting any copies of Skitch you have on your system (sometimes they can hang around the downloads folder, etc).

If that doesn't work, it could be a corrupted preferences file.

1. Quit skitch
2. Find the the file "com.plasq.skitch.plist" in your user account>Library>Preferences and compress it by right-clicking and choosing compress from the menu, This way you'll always have a copy.
3. Now, delete the original and try re-launching Skitch. You'll need to re-enter your Skitch account details so be sure to have them handy.

Hope that helps!

chucksense replied on November 17, 2008 16:53 to the idea "I'd like to get links to MySkitch upload page without opening browser" in plasq:

When doing webpost via ftp/sftp, the "WebPost" button becomes a "Copy URL" button. Seems like the behavior should be the same for MySkitch.

chucksense replied on November 17, 2008 16:46 to the problem "Skitch is really slow and using 98-99 under CPU in Activity Monitor" in plasq:

Bueller? Bueller?

Darn, I really preferred Skitch. Jing is just not up to par, but I guess I'm forced to use it.

chucksense started following the question "exif" in plasq.

chucksense replied on October 31, 2008 16:12 to the problem "Skitch is really slow and using 98-99 under CPU in Activity Monitor" in plasq:

Any thoughts?

chucksense replied on October 19, 2008 18:31 to the problem "Skitch is really slow and using 98-99 under CPU in Activity Monitor" in plasq:

An additional note about this: I use Aperture as my photo management software. I noticed that in the "Photos" menu, Aperture is listed as (Loading...) for a very long time now. Hope this is relevant or helps in some way!

chucksense replied on October 16, 2008 21:13 to the discussion "Love to know what you 'always' and 'never' do with Skitch?" in plasq:

More now that I have a little more time...

Always (or often)

• Use CMD-Shift-5 to capture (then either use selection or click window)


• Use arrows and boxes


• Use "Add shadow..." (as mentioned above)


• Either use Webpost (to my own domain), drag to finder, or drag to Word


• Use the "Copy Link" button after Web posting (Best... Feature... EVER!)


• Use the PNG format


• If Skitching a photo, use the Photos button as it's WAY faster than firing up Aperture

Never

• Use the "snap" button


• Use the Circle tool


• Use Mail this Image, Send to Bluetooth, Print, Re-Snap, Frame snapshot, Flip, or Rotate


• Webpost to flickr, skitch.com, or anywhere else except my own domain


• Have Skitch in my Dock

Cheers,
-Chuck

chucksense reported a problem in plasq on October 16, 2008 17:41:

Skitch is really slow and using 98-99 under CPU in Activity Monitor

For the last few days, Skitch has become "impossible-to-use" slow. It is using 98-99 under the CPU column in Activity monitor. I've tried restarting my computer a few times, no dice.

Running:
Skitch 1.0b7 (v77)
MacBook Pro / MacOSX 10.5.5

The slowness occurs from the very start of Skitch--I've had to disable loading it on login because it was slowing my machine way down. It makes taking snaps painful, all animations of Skitch appearing and disappearing are now taking nearly a minute, and it's affecting the overall performance of my machine.

The strange thing is that I upgrade to this latest version when it came out (I think a couple of weeks ago now?), yet the problem only appeared in the last couple of days.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
-Chuck