They say imitation is the best form of flattery and, quite honestly, how many of us come up with a brand new innovative idea? As web designers we tend to take note of other websites and take other sites as inspiration when we put forward designs for our new homepage. This happens at every company. They look around at various sites, gain inspiration, take a bit here, a bit from there and then collate these design ideas to create their own site. The end result is something that looks fairly independent, but not a departure from what's already available across the Internet.

LittleSnapper 1.0.2 is a handy Mac-based commercial tool that you can use to grab websites as you browse the Internet. It simply grabs an image or thumbnail of each site or page and then enables you to store for references purposes, so you can go back later and re-examine. Of course, if you're just an individual, you could use LittleSnapper as an elaborate and well-designed visual bookmarks manager.

LittleSnapper link.

25 Mar 2009