xScope 4 at Mac App Store analyse

Created specifically for designers & developers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts. xScope’s tools float above your desktop windows and can be accessed via a toolbar, menubar and/or hot keys. The ten tools that will help you do your job faster and more accurately include: • Mirror - Remote Viewing – Easily view Photoshop, files or windows on your iOS device, AirPlay, or your wrist. - Templates - Automatically shows icon or wallpaper mockup on iOS - Chromeless UI – No overlaid chrome to get in the way while you work - Security – Toggle user authentication requests on/off via Preferences - Download the xScope Mirror App for iOS at http://xscopeapp.com/ios • Text - New! - Powerful Search – For name or tag in any of the 100,000+ Unicode characters - Decipher Text – Deciphers text entities, encodings, constants, and more! - Convert Format – Output text as a string, entities, URL encoding, and more! - Measure Glyphs – Shows line, character or web layout: including font metrics & CSS - Character Palette – A handy place to collect commonly used Unicode characters • Dimensions - Find the dimensions of anything on screen instantly - Find distance between objects quickly & easily - Create screen shots of any measured element • Rulers - Powerful on-screen rulers for pixel measurements - Two rulers with synchronization for easy on-screen comparison - Hold down control to snap to edges of onscreen content - Fully adjustable horizontal & vertical lengths - Full 360 degree rotation range - Displays deltas for rotated rulers • Overlay - New! - Enhances Your Web Browser – Attaches to window to make development easier - Alignment Marks – Check positioning & distances in px/em/pt and percentages - Mockup Image – A transparent design comp over your HTML and CSS code - Grids with Breakpoints – Grid systems that stay in sync with your media queries - Cycle Breakpoints – Quickly check your design at all sizes used in your CSS - Full-page Screenshot – Get a picture of your whole web page - Works with iOS Simulator – Great for testing in Safari or developing native apps • Screens - Easily see the usable real estate for any screen size - Organized by platform including iOS, Android, Mac, Windows & TV - Pre-defined screen templates or create your own - Displays title and game safe areas for 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio TVs. - Simulate user vision problems including color blindness & presbyopia (old age) - De-retinizer to simulate normal display when using Retina display - Define custom area settings for any OS or browser • Loupe - Magnify any portion of the screen under your mouse - Displays color under your cursor in RGB, HSB, HEX, CSS3 rgb() & HTML - Quick measurement of magnified image using Dimensions - Reference color format: work with a hex color while viewing RGB format - Collect a running list of color swatches with Shift-Cmd-C - Save out or import .ACO color swatch files for easy reference - Simulate user vision problems including color blindness & presbyopia (old age) - Displays co-ordinates of mouse cursor for reference - The content of the window or the mouse position can be locked • Guides - Vertical & horizontal guides that float on top of all else on the screen - Displays guide position in pixels when placed - Displays distance between guides in pixels - Save & load guide positions for later reference - Supports multiple monitors • Frames - Adjustable marker boxes float on top of the screen - Hold down control to snap to edges of onscreen content - Cmd-Shift-5 to shrink a selection around on screen content & create a frame - Display preset grids to help compose frame layouts - Create, move, duplicate & edit frames at will - Save & load frame positions for later reference • Crosshair - Reports the coordinate position of the mouse cursor - Change origin from the upper-left (design work) to lower-left (development work)