Voila is not just a Screen Capturing and Editing tool that also lets you share your work, but an application that allows you to neatly organize your images and videos. That’s what the rule-based Smart Collections and Collections are for. Using these you can organize related images and videos, allowing you to easily access your files when you need them and know where to find them.

As you glean through the Voila interface, you will find a few Smart Collections created by default. A Collection will appear as soon as one is created.

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Smart Collections:

As mentioned earlier, Smart Collections are rule-based folders. That is, you can assign specific rules for the kind of images or videos you want to be placed there. Thus, any file that satisfies either one or all the rules of a specific Smart Collection is automatically placed there. This is a great feature that lets you organize your files without you having to specifically drag and drop the files there. This lets you smartly organize related tasks and helps you focus more on your work. To create a rule-based smart collection, hit the Add symbol at the bottom of the app and select Create New Smart Collection. Now you can assign more than one rule to the kind of files you want placed there.

For example, I wanted to create a folder containing all the screenshots I have created for say, a UI re-work. We followed a particular naming convention, assigned the rules and created a Smart Collection. This was when we were planning the re-vamp of the Camera Plus Pro UI. We received a couple of screenshots from our designers and were required to provide our comments. Using Voila it was much easier to put in our comments using the Annotations and organizing them in a single folder. All the files satisfying the rules assigned, would automatically be placed in this folder, making it easier to track the screenshots too.

Creating a rule-based Smart Collection/Collection:

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Assigning the rules in case of a Smart Collection:

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Information Panel showing the contents that satisfy the rules of the Smart Collection:

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Of course, there is another way to organize your screenshots or screen-casts. You can create a Collection. The steps to create a Collection are similar to the Smart Collections, but without the rules. This means you must manually move the files that you wish to place in this folder.

I’m sure you’ll find more uses with this feature. Explore it further and do let us know how you make use of it.

Voila is a comprehensive Screen Capturing app that lets you capture still shots and videos of your desktop. Not just that, you can also edit and annotate your still shots with Callouts, Text, Filters, Arrows and more to make them more meaningful. The built-in organizer lets you manage your files smartly and also lets you share your work instantly via YouTube, Flickr, FTP, SFTP and Mail.

And you even have a better reason to try Voila. Celebrating the 1st Anniversary of the release of Voila v3 we have slashed the price of Voila by almost 17%! That’s right! You can grab your copy of Voila from our Global Delight Store, or the Mac App Store at just $24.99 for a limited period. Hurry!

You’re reading the 5th post in our series, Voila Tips 101: a list that will cover features in Voila, both known and lesser known, that can help you in your work and lets you enjoy all the features of the app. Read the entire list here.

-Vaishnavi

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Capturing a web page in its entirety is one of the special features of Voila. Sure we have provided you with options to capture a web page from your favorite browsers such as Safari, Firefox and Chrome, but with Voila we went a step ahead and provided an additional option, that is, the ability to capture a web page from the Voila browser.

To capture a web page from the Voila browser, you must choose the Web capture mode and select either the Snap from Voila Browser or Open current URL in Voila option. Choosing the latter option will open the current URL from the active browser in the Voila browser. Selecting the first option launches the Voila browser, after which you can enter the URL of the web page you want to capture.

You must be wondering why you would need a built-in browser for the purpose of capturing a web page. Apart from functioning as a normal browser and letting you capture the entire web page, the Voila browser also lets you perform two very interesting and useful functions.

Snap Scrolling Region: A very useful feature that lets you select and capture an area on the web page. Most of the time you would only want to capture the relevant portion of a web page, such as an article on the latest OS X update, a movie review or any thing interesting. With this feature you can select only that portion of the article, thus getting a neat capture without the unwanted information such as the ads running on that site or anything irrelevant.

Snap DOM elements: Another feature is the ability to capture DOM elements. Using the Snap DOM elements function, you can quickly and easily capture the multiple DOM elements of a web page.

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Although in both the functions only a portion of the web page is captured, all the important metadata such as page URL, description, tags, etc. is retained in the info panel. Thus you can always re-visit the web page or refer the source.

I’m sure you’ll find more uses with this feature. Explore it further and do let us know how you make use of it.

Voila is a comprehensive Screen Capturing app that lets you capture still shots and videos of your desktop. Not just that, you can also edit and annotate your still shots with Callouts, Text, Filters, Arrows and more to make them more meaningful. The built-in organizer lets you manage your files smartly and also lets you share your work instantly via YouTube, Flickr, FTP, SFTP and Mail.

And you even have a better reason to try Voila. Celebrating the 1st Anniversary of the release of Voila v3 we have slashed the price of Voila by almost 33%! That’s right! You can grab your copy of Voila from our Global Delight Store, or the Mac App Store at just $19.99 for a limited period. Hurry!

You’re reading the 4th post in our series, Voila Tips 101: a list that will cover features in Voila, both known and lesser known, that can help you in your work and lets you enjoy all the features of the app. Read the entire list here.

-Vaishnavi

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While all of you have been busy thinking of something witty to win a code or two, our developers have been really busy getting the next update of Voila Mac Screen Capture Tool out. Voila has been your constant companion, capturing everything and anything you have liked to capture on your desktop, helping you record an interesting video, or apply some great annotations to your captures and send it across instantly to your clients or friends!

So what does Voila v3.0.4 have for you?

I can call this version, your version, since it contains inclusion of features requested and a few bug fixes reported by you. Most of you have wanted the flexibility to choose your web cam for the iSight Capture feature. In this version, we have allowed you to do the same. You can choose the web cam of your choice from the drop-down provided in the Voila Capture Preferences.

Another cool feature is the option to save the web page archive in Voila. This means you can now save the web page archive along with the web snap, thus saving it both as an image and a web page. To do so, you have to select the ‘Save Web Archive’ option in the Voila General Preferences.

To open the web snap directly within the app, select ‘Open Web Archive’ from the Voila Capture Menu. Selecting this option opens the saved web page in the Voila Browser.

This version also has a few bug fixes. Some of you had an issue where the Mail app was not being recognized by Voila and thus would put up an error message stating ‘Mail not configured’. For someone trying to get a multi-colored text using Voila, they were unable to save it. One of you also had a problem where you couldn’t capture a web page using Firefox on a system running Parallels. We have fixed all these issues, thanks to those who reported it and helped us in troubleshooting it. Your co-operation has helped a great deal in understanding the issues and providing the required solutions.

Existing users, grab your free update now and tell us what you like the most in Voila and feel free to give us your feedback and suggestions. And for those who haven’t tried Voila yet, do it today! You can try the 15-days trial version first to see for yourself what Voila has to offer you.

-Vaishnavi

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Hope you guys had a wonderful start to the Green Day! It’s time for me to announce the winners of our St. Patrick’s Day Giveaway Contest. We had a tough time picking up the winners because a lot of you came up with reeeeeal witty captions. So after much thought, here are the lucky ones who have struck the pot o’ gold.

Camera Plus Pro
STReekie
Carlos Velez

Photo Delight for iPad
Florian Taltavull
Nathan Liu

Boom
nowever
Keith M. Sedor
Howard Friedman (We have a third contender because we just couldn’t resist his cheesy caption )

Voila Free Code
Veronica H
Michael Mkceever

Voila Discount Coupon - It will give you a discount of $20 for one copy of Voila, so you just have to pay $9.99 instead of the original $29.99.
Daniel McGill
slimushot

All the winners have been contacted via mail. Please respond to them as soon as you can!

Congrats to all the winners and thanks to all of you for participating with such fun and enthusiasm. We hope you enjoyed taking part in the contest as much as we did going through your captions. We have many more interesting contests planned for this year. Just keep a watch over this space or better yet sign up for our Newsletter to get the news delivered straight to your inbox. We will be careful not to flood it.

Those of you who have missed out on the chance to grab our products, you might like to check out the trial version of our Mac apps Boom Volume Booster for your Mac and Music, and  Voila Mac Screen Capture Tool. Browse through the features of Camera Plus Pro All-in-one iPhoneography Solution and Photo Delight for iPad to know more about them and perhaps buy them as well. Have a great weekend, folks!

-Neha

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You don’t have to be Irish to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! It’s for everyone to celebrate, so spread some holiday cheer and try to find a four-leaf clover, wear something green (otherwise - consider yourself virtually pinched!), kiss the blarney stone,  catch a Leprechaun if you can, try a bit of Irish cooking and of course take part in our Giveaway Contest!

Keeping with the spirit of this day, in our Giveaway Contest, we will be giving away a few discount codes of Voila, in addition to that, you can also win two free codes each of our most popular apps.

Voila, All-in-One Screen Capture Tool for your Mac

Boom, Volume Booster App for your Mac

Camera Plus Pro, End-to-End Mobile Photography App for your iPhone

Photo Delight, Color Splash App for your iPad

So let’s see how lucky you are this day! All you have to do is decide which product’s code you would like to win and tell us why you should get it.

For example, “I would like a code for Camera Plus Pro ‘cos I’m a leprechaun“

Okay, that wasn’t the wittiest, but then if it were,  I’d win a code! The wittiest caption gets a code of their choice! You can post your captions here or on our Facebook or Twitter page. Hurry, the contest ends on 18th March, 12:00 AM PDT!

P.S.: Want to know when one of our next amazing giveaways is going to be? Why don’t you subscribe to our newsletter to be the first one to know?

UPDATE: The contest has come to an end. Thanks for taking part and sending in your entries. The winners will be announced soon!

-Vaishnavi

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