Why the name “Scrammit?” Admittedly using “Scrammit.com” as a URL may not have been the best of choices – not descriptive – even meaningless in reference to what the site offers, but the answer is “Scrammit” is one of my first creations and it happens to be an encryption program. Scrammit is actually short (not by much) for “scramble it.” The program used to be called “Scramit,” but someone beat me to registering that domain so now its actually short for “scramble it” with a “damn it” thrown in the middle.
Whats with the two eggs in the logo? As mentioned above scrammit.com is named after an encryption program I wrote. I was actually going to use scrambled eggs as the logo but what do scrambled eggs look like anyway? So instead I just went with sunnyside up - there's no mistaking two sunnyside up eggs. Now you know. So any program you see written by Scrammit will have these two distinctive eggs in the upper-left corner. No mistaken that either.
What is Scrammit.com all about? Basically its one individual who spends a lot of time writing software to make whatever “There’s got to be a simpler way” task he set out to achieve…and what pleasure is in achieving something if there’s no one to share it with? It seems somewhere along the line that the software engineers in their race to create the most sophisticated software ever know to man, forgot about the end users. Nothing is more frustrating than practically having to take a training course to achieve what seems should be a simple, quick task - for example, resizing images. There are so many programs out there with countless bells and whistles that can make your photos look like everything from sketches, to water, to steam. Somewhere buried in all the works is the ability to resize an image, but by the time you find it and figure it out, half the day is often wasted. Sure all the features are great if you need them, but most are seldom used and its overkill for the majority of tasks. Its like taking a 747 from the bedroom to the kitchen. Picture Girdle is a program I wrote specifically to resize / resample images. You just drag and drop the image onto the “Open” button and that’s it. It automatically resizes the image to whatever size you specified and places it in the same folder as the original with an underscore_ after the name. Simple. |
