After a dramatic 26 hours and 12 minutes, my website and blog are finally back alive. Thanks for your patience everyone while that unscheduled downtime happened. Believe me...I was just as lost without my own blog as you all were. I got on my computer and stared at it blankly, lost without the comfort of my own site to share my thoughts and photos. I was doing some simple domain name things with my host company which I had not expected would impact the hosting of THIS website, thought it would only affect an old website of mine. BUT, Murphy's Law prevailed. Anyways, to celebrate the rebirth...I'm going to share a secret. There is this program called Skitch that is one of my favorite things of all time. I have been using it for about 8 months or so. Of course, this is only for Mac users because we are, after all, better than everyone else (ok, little joke there). But, seriously this is not for Windows users. Skitch is this little program that allows you to do screen captures on a Mac in a simple click. You just drag and click...voila...instant jpg. How do I use it? For everything. If I see something online that I want to send someone on email quickly...I skitch it. If I want to send a screen shot to a friend on iChat, I skitch it and it goes in a second. If you frequent forums where you post images, you can use Skitch to not only capture your screen image...but skitch even uploads it with the click of one button and hosts it for you to post elsewhere. This is especially cool for bloggers!!! You can skitch anything you see online and easily make reference back to it in your blog.

AND IT IS FREE!!! no spam, no fees. i love skitch.

So, if you click on the image below (which yes, was skitched from skitch's website) you too can get addicted. Now, don't share this secret with everyone. It is something special. Only give this link to people who you owe favors to, or want to kiss up to.

I have to give credit to Pete Lawrence for originally sharing this program with me. Thanks Pete!