Screen Capture

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Easily Screenshot An Entire Web Page With Skitch

4:00PM January 21, 2012 | Jason Chen

Skitch, the popular screenshotting tool for Mac, has a very cool webpage feature that might not be evident just by using it. I know I’ve been using Skitch for nearly four years and never discovered that you can easily drag a URL from your browser onto Skitch and have it take a screenshot of the entire web page. More »

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CloudShot Is A Dropbox-Ready Screenshot Tool

6:00AM November 20, 2011 | David Galloway

Windows: We’ve covered a lot of screenshot apps in the past. If you use Dropbox for most of your working documents it may make a lot of sense to use CloudShot, the screenshot app that automatically uploads to a specified folder on your system, including Dropbox folders. More »

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Automatically Save Screen Captures With Custom Image Formats And Compression

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11:30AM November 13, 2011 | Logan Booker

Taking screen caps in Windows is not the most straightforward activity, at least out of the box. You hit Print Screen (or Alt-Print Screen to grab a window), paste it into your favourite image editing program, crop it and then save it out as a JPEG or PNG. Thankfully, NoVirusThanks’s Desktop Hunter streamlines the entire process. More »

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Site2Pic Instantly Generates A Screenshot Of A Web Page

6:00AM September 23, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

There’s no shortage of apps for taking screenshots, many of them with annotation and other powerful features. However, web app Site2Pic is a stand-out for its simplicity. It does one thing and it does it well: take a screenshot of a web page for sharing. More »

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CaptureIt Plus Takes Screen Captures Complete With Menus And UI

11:30PM August 31, 2011 | Alan Henry

Windows: If you take a lot of screen captures, you know it can be frustrating to try a great screen capture utility only to discover that it closes any open menus and pop-up alerts before taking the capture. CaptureIt Plus is a capture utility that preserves those elements in the shot. More »

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Clarify Expands Screenshots Into Tutorials

6:00AM August 22, 2011 | David Galloway

Mac: If you’ve ever spent an hour using Photoshop or GIMP to create tutorials by inserting instructions onto images you’ll enjoy Clarify. The app creates a screen capture and allows you to append and highlight the image. Unlike other apps, Clarify has the ability to take a delayed screenshot. More »

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Screen-Grabbing Mac App Skitch Now Free, Also Available As Android App

5:50AM August 19, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

Mac/Android: Skitch, one of the most popular screen capture tools was just bought today by the company that owns popular note-taking tool Evernote. What does that mean for us? The full version is now free (a $20 saving) and there’s a new Android app. More »

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Layersapp Lets You Take Screenshots As Layered PhotoShop Images

6:00AM June 5, 2011 | Alan Henry

Mac: Taking screenshots is easy, but editing them and removing items you don’t want seen in the final image can be difficult. With Layersapp, you can capture your desktop and all of the open windows and applications on it as layers that are editable in Photoshop. More »

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PrtScr Brings Snipping Tool To All Versions Of Windows

6:00AM April 20, 2009 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Windows only: If you noticed Snipping Tool in the screen capture Hive Five and were disappointed it wasn’t available in pre-Vista Windows, take heart. PrtScr is a supercharged remix for all versions. More »

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Extensoft Screen Capturer Grabs Desktop Images, Video And Audio

11:30PM February 26, 2009 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Windows only: If you need to grab both video and still screen captures, but don’t have the need or budget for professional software, Extensoft Screen Capturer can do both with ease. With Extensoft’s app, you can capture the entire screen or specified areas of it. Captured images can be saved as BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIFF formats. Video captures can be saved in either WMV or AVI format—there are codecs for DiVX, ffdshow, and XviD, among others, for post-processing, and audio can be grabbed during video sessions as well. Almost all of the menu commands for controlling Extensoft Screen Capturer have corresponding keyboard shortcuts, making it easy to use mouse-free. Screen Capturer is free but does require a basic name/email registration. The registration is sent instantly and requires no validation. Extensoft Screen Capturer is freeware, Windows only.

Extensoft Screen Capturer [via Confessions of a Freeware Junkie]

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