PixelStick: Concise Screen Measurement

I struggled a bit with this article, trying to come up with some fancy explanation of PixelStick, but the truth is that there’s not much fancy about it. Like many of the other apps I love and have reviewed here, it’s a simple and free app that fills a particular niche and does it very well. In this case, it’s screen measurement.

PixelStick takes the idea of many paid-for measuring apps like xScope and boils it down to the simplest functions that most people need. It is little more than a tiny window with numbers in it and some lines overlaid on the screen. Using these lines and numbers, you can measure pretty much anything that can be measured – horizontal, vertical, at an angle, a circle, whatever. For example, I can tell you that the text box I’m writing this article in is exactly 989 pixels wide, 368 pixels tall, and about 1055 pixels on the horizontal. Scintillating, isn’t it?

Okay, so I don’t make PixelStick sound all that spectacular – but the truth is, it’s not one of those whizz-bang apps that wows you at first sight. Again, it picks a task, sticks to it, and excels at it. For meausring screen elements without having to fuss with anything too complicated, PixelStick is quick, easy, and free. Get it here.

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