DeskDoodle: Screen Drawing Tool

2/20/06I had a need today to be able to draw on a screenshot, saved on a stickies note. I remembered trying this shareware out some time back, but couldn’t think of a good use. I’m trying DeskDoodle again with this update for Tiger.

Update 6/8/06. I got back to evaluating DeskDoodle today, and found the software had gone kaplooey somehow since that day last month when I used it once. I deleted the prefs file and was able to get it going again, but in the meantime I took a fresh look at FlySketch, from Flying Meat software (the VoodooPad folks). What a cool product is that? It does most of what DeskDoodle can (it doesn’t do stamps), and a whole lot more. Alignment, shadows, preformatted screen sizes, PDF workflow options, variable transparency, a multitude of drawing tools, for starters. I do think I’ll have to fork over $25 for FlySketch. It’s just one of those Macintosh apps that proves the superiority of the platform. (I’ll be very interested to hear if there’s anything like it for Windows.) It’s $15 more than DeskDoodle, but in the “drawing on your screen” category, I do think it’s a better overall value. In any case, I’m putting DeskDoodle back in the reject bin.