ThomasNet knows that their advertisers are hands-on marketers. So are their engineering-type users. So here is a cool desktop thingy they have released for free: The ThomasNet Toolbox. Screenshot:
It does just enough for a marketer to be useful. And as it hangs out in a normally dead zone of your screen (the very top), its not in the way.
- The screen capture lets you select the part of the screen to capture. Saves me a step cropping, especially if doing the same shot repeatedly. (Good for engineers making instructions, too.)
- Color palette tool picks colors off your screen and gives you coding. I forgot about this feature and was doing things the hard way this morning, copy-and-pasting Hex color numbers from a CSS to see what color they really were.
- The rulers help you measure items on your screen … again helpful for marketers and engineers. (I do have a cool Firefox plug-in that does this, as well.)
- Who-knows when the magnifier may come in handy. I know Windows has one, but couldn’t tell you how to call it up.
- I normally hate post-it desktop tools, but who knows, I may use this one since it is attached to these other useful items.
- You are stuck looking at “ThomasNet.com” all day in your header area. If it pays off, people will use the first item in the toolbox, which is a link to their site.
I’ve picked on TN for posting other web-stuff that didn’t really do the job, but this one is a winner.