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Measure Anything On The Screen In Windows With ScreenRuler

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It can often be quite hard to think of the online world as a physical entity. For one thing, it isn't tangible, but it’s still eerie how holding up a ruler to measure something on your screen can blur that distinction momentarily. This, by the way, brings me to an old bone I've had to pick with Windows for some time now; how come we don’t have a native solution to onscreen measurement? Holding out your thumb or fingers just isn't feasible when you want to quantify a window’s dimensions or calibrate the distance between two objects. Well, you could try ScreenRuler to give you some sense of onscreen scale. Let's find out more about this helpful little utility after the jump. Read More

Snap Guides To Measure Website Elements With Tape For Chrome

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Good web design relies on several factors, one of which is the right placement of every element. Tape is a Chrome extension to help web designers with this by allowing you to add rulers to a web page. Tape goes beyond what common pixel-measuring extensions offer; it doesn’t just tell you the area occupied by a particular element in pixels, but also lets you add as many rulers to the browser interface as you want, to measure and outline the relative distance of different elements from each other. You can add rulers both horizontally and vertically, define origin points (yes, more than one), and set the pointer to automatically snap to different elements in a web page as you move over them, much like in Photoshop. Tape is enabled on a webpage through a button and is controlled solely through your keyboard. Obviously, the web page itself does not remain functional while Tape is enabled, so you won’t miss the normal key functionality. Read More

WndSizer Helps You Resize A Window To Your Required Dimensions

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Consider yourself in a situation where you are taking screenshots of a resizable desktop window and the publication where they are to be posted has strict dimension requirements such as a blog post, a book, a presentation, a website etc. If you are taking the screenshot of a non-resizable window, there’s not much you can do other than scaling down the whole image or just taking the screenshot of a certain portion but in case of a resizable window, taking that perfect screenshot can be a bit tricky, as you don't really have a visual cue on how much to resize before taking the screenshot. Instead of going through the hassle of resizing the Window again and again, and repeatedly taking screenshots till you get the perfect size, what if you had a tool that helped you resize the Window to the right dimensions? WndSizer is a simple, but very useful tool for Windows that acts as a scale for anything on your computer, coming especially handy in resizing windows to the required size. It’s a translucent window that can be resized both vertically and horizontally and dragged anywhere on the screen freely, while displaying its current size in the center. Read More

Map Ruler Touch: Trace Over A Map To Measure Distances [iPhone, iPad]

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Maps are great for finding your way around and with smartphone map apps, things get even more interesting, as you can interact with the map of the entire world in different ways. While most maps apps (including the hugely popular Google Maps) do have a scale to indicate distances, at times you just need to measure them your way. Map Ruler Touch lets you do just that on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. For more details, continue reading. Read More

MagicPlan For iPhone Can Automatically Estimate A Room’s Dimensions & Generate Its Floor Plan

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If you are an Architect, an Engineering student, or just like making little tweaks here in there in your house every once in a while, you must be familiar with the complexities involved in drawing up even a rough floor plan for a room, or simply estimating its dimensions. Well, if you own an iOS device, you won't have to worry about such matters ever again, thanks to the truly magical MagicPlan. This app automatically generates the floor plan of any enclosed space. What does one have to do to make the app perform this magical feat, you ask? You just have to stand in the middle of the room, point the device’s camera at each corner and that’s it! The app takes every door, cabinet or any other piece of furniture into account, and provides you with a surprisingly accurate measurement of the room. Read More

iAngle Meter: Measure The Angle Or Slope Of Any Surface With Your iPhone

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Being able to use your iPhone in real life situations is what makes it a "smart" phone in every sense of the word. You can use it as a camera; you can use it as a means to organize yourself, and it is even possible to use it as a replacement for many measurement tools. There are a lot of iOS apps that let you perform measurements using the sensors in iDevices. iAngle Meter is one such app, and it has two main purposes. Users can measure angles with the app, both from within images and by comparing the device’s orientation against an object. The second function of the app is to see if a surface is completely level or not. iAngle Meter has options to check the level of both single and dual axes. Read More

Map Measure: Find Out Area & Distance Between Any Two Places [iOS]

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Many people use maps pretty regularly on their iPhone, but it is always nice to have something out of the ordinary in your daily routine. While commuting to work or travelling to any new place, have you ever wondered how long will it take to get there? You can do that by plotting the route in the stock Maps app in iOS, but that’s where its ability to measure ends. In fact, there are many other things that maps can tell us, just if you have the right kind of app. Map Measure is one such app. This stock maps alternative will let you find out the exact distance between two points on the map, as well as the area of any polygon you define on the map, all of that in units of your choice. Read More

PixelWindow: Measure The Dimensions Of Any Onscreen Object [Mac]

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Web developers and designers are often plagued with measuring elements either on web pages or their desktops. It isn't the most fun part of the job, but is often necessary to get the dimensions and balance of things just right. Sometimes, you need to know how much space you have left, or if you can fit another element in the what little room you have. Advanced graphic design apps support rulers and grids that let you do all this easily, but when you want to measure an object outside your favorite app, you have no easy way of doing it. PixelWindow is a free Mac app that gives you an onscreen box for measuring dimensions in pixels. You can set the box to any measurement and move it over different elements to see the difference, or you can fit it over an element to find its width and height. Read More

Snap Rule Turns iPhone Into Adjustable Scale For Length Measurements

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Personally, I have not been a huge fan of apps that let you do stuff which can easily be performed with instruments made specially for that purpose. One such example of this genre of iOS apps include those that turn your $400 iPhone into a one dollar scale for measuring lengths! However, every category in the App Store does have some good apps in it, and Snap Rule comes across as one such app. The task performed by Snap Rule is essentially the same as performed by many other apps, but it comes with a slightly favorable twist; the scale offered by this app is highly adjustable. This means that you can conjure the ruler out of thin air, and then resize it according to the size of the object to be measured. Read More

Measure Note For WP7: Add Annotations To Building Plans And Maps

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If you are an engineer, geologists, architects, or are related to construction work in any way, then most likely your days are spent handling maps and scribbling measurement notes on them. Measure Note is an app for Windows Phone 7 which aims to make the whole process of taking measurement annotations over photos much more easier. If you use this app, you won’t have to worry about keeping track of all the slips of papers on which you made the notes, and in addition to that, Measure Note will also calculate the angles for you all by itself. Measure Note can be considered a perfect combination of a technical note-taking app, and a geometrical calculator that is based on augmented reality. Read More

How To Check FPS(Frames Per Seconds) And Take Screenshots While Playing Video Games On Your PC

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If you ever wanted to know how much frames per seconds your graphic card renders, then you would definitely want to know about FRAPS. It is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form, FRAPS shows frames Per Second (FPS) in a corner of your screen and also take a screenshot with the press of a key while playing your favorite games.

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