an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message tinygrab genre image hosting service founded april 2009 founder chris leydon area served worldwide parent keyone productions website tinygrab.com tinygrab is a simple screenshot sharing tool for windows mac and ios . the tool allows the user to take a screenshot and automatically upload it to their servers . the url is passed directly to the user s clipboard allowing them to paste the link in an email blog post on twitter or any instant messaging application . the service is tiered with the free accounts limited to ten grabs a day and paid accounts giving unlimited grabs and the ability to use file transfer protocol to upload to custom servers . 1 contents 1 history 2 references 3 footnotes 4 external links history edit tinygrab was envisioned in april 2009 by former british student chris leydon whilst at staffordshire university in the united kingdom . 2 the first version of tinygrab was limited to run only on the mac os x operating system . soon after tinygrab expanded upon this by releasing an application that allowed users of microsoft windows to use the service . tinygrab for iphone was released on 26 may 2010 and is now available in the itunes app store . 3 tinygrab was one of the original applications featured in the macheist nanobundle in november 2009 and offered as a free download for a limited time . the inclusion in the nanobundle is speculated to be the primary reason for tinygrab s mass uptake in users in a short period of time . in march 2010 tinygrab was profiled in macworld magazine . 4 in may 2010 tinygrab appealed to its users for help with funding the project in order to keep it alive . 5 in 2011 tinygrab s servers were hacked . this compromised the products code base and led to speculation about the developer s financial future . 6 7 in july 2011 tinygrab announced they had been purchased by us developers company 52 and claimed that the product was now secure . 8 date event june 2009 mac version goes into public beta testing july 2009 mac version launches september 2009 iphone version is announced october 2009 windows version launches april 2010 tinygrab 2.0 is announced may 2010 iphone version launches september 2010 tinygrab 2.0 beta announced april 2011 tinygrab gets hacked and is forced to prematurely launch tinygrab 2.0 july 2011 chris leydon sells tinygrab to company 52 . december 2011 tinygrab launches a redesigned grab page references edit xavier lur . tinygrab a simple but impressive screenshot sharing app for macs . techxav . simon mackie . tinygrab makes sharing screenshots simple . tinygrab crunchbase profile . footnotes edit jason fitzpatrick . tinygrab captures and shares your screen . chris leydon . a tiny application a big audience to grab . http tinygrab.com iphone karl hodge . tinygrab review digital lifestyle macworld uk . tinygrab appeal . a developers worst nightmare the tinygrab story . cocoacoding 3 april 2011 chris leydon . tinygrab . tinygrab has new owners and is now stable . tinygrab blog july 27th 2011 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tinygrab & oldid 698959137 categories image hostinghidden categories pages using duplicate arguments in template callsarticles with a promotional tone from july 2012all articles with a promotional tonepages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 january 2016 at 09 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view