Hot Shots For Mac

Hot Shots is a user-friendly OS X application designed as an easy-to-use desktop client for the Dribble artwork sharing website. It provides an elegant image browser and allows you to preview, download or like images from different categories.

The client comes with a Cover Flow type of image browser where you can browse uploaded artwork on Dribble as thumbnails in a vertical or horizontal layout.

Above thumbnails you can preview the selected image in a smaller format that the original. It also displays its name, number of views, likes and comments, uploader name and more.

Although you can preview artwork in a smaller format, users can press Space (or click on View > Quick Look) to view the image in its full size using OS X’s integrated QuickLook function. Pictures can be easily downloaded with the help of a toolbar icon to the folder you have specified in the preferences.

Images can be browsed by several default categories: everyone, popular, debut, following or likes. Thus, you can also view pictures from the uploaders you are following and your liked pictures. This, of course, requires that you log into your Dribble account (from the preferences).

Another salient feature is the ability to browse dribble.com in a mobile-like version from a hide-able sidebar, called the Dribble Drawer. This allows you to view more details about the picture (such as tags and comments). The Drawer also provides access to extra categories of shots.

The Preferences window allows you to configure quite a few options. For instance, you can change the update interval, choose to play sound when a download is complete, display unseen shots count in the Dock icon, allow animated GIFs, change the thumbnail size and more. Also, you can clear the cache and configure notifications.

To conclude, Hot Shots is a well-designed OS X desktop client for the popular dribble.com artwork sharing site for designers and developers. It brings most of the website features to the desktop in an easy-to-use app with numerous configuration options.