This week on the Free Apps Roundup: Hurry up! Apple let one slip though: a MAME emulator. For real. But that’s not all. LogMeIn released a free app to keep your desktop within reach whenever you have an internet connection. And there’s Skitch, a new Zenonia, and a whole slew of limited time freebies just more »

I love Skitch. I’ve been using the screenshot/image editing application (in beta) for two years, and it’s become an indispensable part of my online life, allowing me to do screenshot and snap webcam photos as well as edit, annotate, upload and share them. It’s one of those applications that does the things I need to do so elegantly that I keep waiting for Apple to buy it and include it as system software.

Since Twitter sprang from the idea of sending text updates from a cell phone, why not also post pictures? While there are several ways (and services) to do this, the two easiest I’ve found are TwitPic and Skitch, both currently free, and can be used from a browser or cell phone. Since Twitter itself only allows text, the services work by posting a link to the photo hosted on another site.

If the two criteria for Mac-ness are “it just works” and being “insanely great,” then Skitch has to be the most Mac-like program I’ve seen in quite some time.

Skitch is a screenshot program, and while there’s nothing wrong with the screenshot capabilities built into OS X (other than it’s deliberately disabled when DVD Player is running), Skitch does everything Grab does, does it better, then adds labeling features you’ll wonder how you ever lived without, along with built-in sharing features that “just work” to allow you pass your pictures on via e-mail, web, and chat.

Currently a free beta from the mad geniuses at Plasq (best known to Mac users as the creators of Comic Life, a program I admire but haven’t found much practical use for), Skitch is a small program that waits in the background until you need to take a screenshot and/or do simple editing to a photo.

I must say that Comic Touch is a very unique application for the iPhone/iPod touch, and does a very good job at editing and adding comical effects to pictures directly on the iPhone or iPod touch. Comic Touch is a mixture of plasq’s two other apps for Mac OS X—Skitch and Comic Life—as it allows users to edit images with a variety of different effects, including Bulge, Dent, Squeeze, Stretch, and Light. It also offers the ability to add speech bubbles and captions to a photo to give it the feel of a comic.

Learn more after the break.

Skitch is one of my most-used apps. It’s purpose is simple but very useful: To take a snapshot of your screen and upload it to the internet very quickly and easily. The Skitch.com website is great for uploading your Skitches to – although Skitch also gives you the option to use other services like Flickr more »