Browsershots
Browsershots is a very useful tool if you’re a web developer, or even if you just have a web site. By submitting the address of a site, you can get back screenshots showing how the page is rendered across a wide range of web browsers and operating systems.
Browsershots is far from unique, but what’s nice about it is the collaborative approach it takes. The central server farms out requests from the main queue to any of the available ’screenshot factories’. All the software is open source, and anyone with a spare machine and bandwidth can easily set up a new factory and register it with the server.
Currently, the queue time seems to be around about the half-hour mark, but you can bypass the queue altogether by paying a very modest monthly fee, or by running a screenshot factory.
The screenshot accompanying this post is browsershots.org itself, as rendered by IE7 under Windows XP, retrieved via Browsershots! That’s surely the ultimate in getting someone else to do your dirty work - they run IE7 so you don’t have to.