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xScopeSoftware

by Iconfactory

Who uses, recommends or left xScope, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

3 people

Joe Hewitt
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
loved

I use and love IconFactory's xScope for close inspection of user interfaces I am developing.

His written "Uses This" interview, from his Facebook iPhone-app years.

2009-06-28·usesthis.com ↗

Brent Simmons
Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.
uses

I regularly use Safari, NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Colloquy, iChat, Twitter for OS X, Instruments, iCal, xScope, LaunchBar, Keynote, Growl, FileMerge, Versions, iTunes, FastScripts, Transmit, OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, and LiveView Screencaster.

His written "Uses This" interview, from his Glassboard years.

2012-02-17·usesthis.com ↗

Dan Cederholm
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
uses

The apps I rely on every day are: Coda for all my coding and development needs, Photoshop CS3 (I haven't upgraded yet), Tweetie (both on the Mac and iPhone), xScope for primarily checking "eyeballed" grids in web layouts,

His Uses This interview, on a minimalist Mac web-design setup.

2010-01-07·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.