SimFinger 1.0

Make your iPhone applications screenshots look amazing.
So you finished your amazing new iPhone app, it scrolls like butter, now you need to show the world. You could make a screencast by clicking around in the iPhone Simulator, but that has a tendency to look like you just clicked around in the iPhone Simulator.

SimFinger itself is composed of two parts. One is a fake “frame” that sits ontop of the simulator. It adds some shine and gives it an iPhone 3G-look. Clicking anywhere on it will just click-through to whatever is below.

The other part is a little nub that follows around your cursor. It “indents” when you press down with your mouse, indicating what would be a “touch” on the phone.

The idea is to position iPhone Simulator below this facade and do a screencapture of just this area. You’ll need a good screencapture tool - I use (and recommend) Snapz Pro X.

SimFinger also provides an option to capture just some sub-region of your screen, and also allows you to not capture the mouse pointer ( you should use it if you dont want to ruin the illusion).