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Skitch made a couple of big announcements today, one of which is a spanking-new logo. Gone is that pink heart we know and love, and in its place are the feathers of an arrow that signify stabilized flight and direction. As if to emphasize that point, the company also unveiled a version 3 update for its iOS app that promises even faster image capture and annotation than before. As soon as you launch it, you’ll be presented with Quick Shot mode, which should let you snap a photo, annotate it with an arrow and send it off to the cloud in seconds. You may add further captions to an image, share Skitched pics to all attendees in a calendar meeting, sync them via AirDrop or simply save them to Evernote. It’s also updated the overall interface with new tools and style bars for better use of real estate and to match the stylings of iOS 7. It looks like the new logo hasn’t rolled out to the App Store just yet, but the updated app certainly has. So go on and hit the appropriate link in the source to have a peek at the all-new Skitch.

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Source: Evernote Blog, Skitch (App Store)

There’s a double dose of good news for Evernote users on Android this morning: both the Evernote and Skitch apps have been updated with several new features. On the Evernote side, users will now be able to edit attached Office documents (previously they could only be viewed) using the OfficeSuite app, and the homescreen widget now offers list view for notes, quick reminders and support for Jelly Bean’s lockscreen.

For the more visually oriented Skitch app, the update brings Premium users the ability to annotate attached PDFs — a feature that’s already available on the Mac version. Notably, all Skitch users will get a 30-day previews of the PDF mark-up functionality; all the better to make the switch to Premium more appealing, we imagine. More productivity features are pretty much always a good thing, so Android users will definitely want to download the latest versions via the respective source links below.

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Source: Evernote (Google Play), Skitch (Google Play), Evernote Blog

It’s only been a few short months since the last Skitch for Windows 8 update, but before you can say “spring equinox,” it’s time for another one. Release 2.0 boasts a number of improvements over its predecessor that include an improved and streamlined layout which showcases the Capture menu, enhanced sharing with services like Twitter and Facebook, and a snappier performance overall. It’s available today from Evernote.com or you can wait to snag one from the Windows Store in a few days.

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Source: Evernote Blog

Not stopping with its recent update for Android, Evernote gave Skitch for Windows 8 some new features on Monday. Software version 2.0.1128 adds multiple bug fixes and portrait mode support for tablets with x86, x64 and ARM processors. In addition to these enhancements, the new Skitch app for Windows 8 features faster syncing and sharing options for image files up to 25MB, which should hopefully appease the appetite of photogs who crave hi-res imagery. Whether you’re looking to label your vacation’s next destination on a map, or draw silly mustaches on pictures of your friends and family, Windows 8 users now have a new weapon to add to their growing arsenal of applications.

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Source: Evernote, Windows Store

They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but no one ever focuses on how quickly it fell. Skitch can’t exactly be compared to an empire, but with some ten million users globally, there were a lot of voices shouting a lot of various things when the upstart jumped in bed with Evernote and upgraded itself to version 2.0. Not surprisingly, members of our own staff as well as vocal readers have been forced to look for alternative options after v2.0 yanked and / or maimed some of our favorite features from the original. Truth be told, there’s really no alternative that doesn’t also come with a severe compromise, but the Skitch team knows full well that said scenario could change if rivals are given enough time.

Today, the company’s chief designer Keith Lang is clearing the air on what happened, what’s happening, and where his program is going in the future. For starters, he mentions that his team was so heads-down on managing the product, that they failed to actually take into account “how deeply ingrained Skitch had become into many people’s daily workflows and how disruptive even small changes could be.” The good news, however, is that he’s vowing to “fix it.” He notes that version 1.0 was held together with many years of duct tape, and to ever truly move forward, a new program would have to be built from the ground-up. That new program, of course, was met with near-universal hatred from the prior user base, but it looks as if those in the passionate camp are fixing to be addressed.

In updates due to hit between now and sometime soon, Skitch will be regaining Menubar Extra support, FTP / sFTP capabilities, short URLs, direct hosting of Skitch images (!), multiple fonts and custom colors, as well as streamlined cropping and resizing. Aside from bringing v2.0 back up to where v1.0 left off, Keith is promising “really amazing stuff” in the future. We’ll be anxious to give the new builds a try — hopefully, they’ll bring back some good memories.

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Source: Evernote Blog