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Wouldn’t a picture-free 500-word tutorial on GIMP be a pain to follow? Or time-consuming if you’re trying to explain a cool but intricate tip in Youtube to your friends without any illustrations? Screenshots not only solve this problem, but they also light up an otherwise long, boring article. We have discussed convenient Firefox extensions for [...]
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If you blog, you know very well that your posts will be so much better if you include pictures with them. Well, at least they will be more visually attractive. Try to look at those big names in the blogosphere, they are richly adorned with pictures. Among the many ways of acquiring pictures, making screenshots [...]
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My needs for screen capturing software are fairly basic.  In reality, there are many uses for taking screen shots.  For instance, if you’re having trouble and you need to easily send a copy of some error message to someone trying to help, a quick and easy screen shot of the isuue can be a life [...]
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Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a good time last night! But back to the daily grind and my next article. I often get asked how I take screenshots of my running Windows Mobile applications. I have jumped around from application to application and settled down on a simple program that allows [...]
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This month I finally decided to upgrade from my archaic Windows 5.0 Cingular 8125 to the latest and greatest mobile device on the market. Now, I know there are a lot of mobile users out there who have their own personal favorites – the most popular ones being the iPhone, the Blackberry and of course [...]
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Let’s cut to the chase and begin with the basics. Do you know the common screenshot keyboard shortcuts? If not, this would be a good time to memorise them. Command+Shift+3 – Takes a screenshot of the entire screen. Command+Shift+4 – Allows you to take selective screenshots. Command+Shift+4 then hit Spacebar – Takes a screenshot of [...]
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Screen capturing is basically taking a snapshot of your desktop. There are several reasons you may need the ability to do this. First of all, you may be getting error messages that you need someone’s help with. You know how it is, when the tech is there looking for the issue, the messages never come back. Well, [...]
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I’ve never tried to look for a screen capturing application and I used to instead depend on my Mac’s built-in screenshot utility to clip part (or all) of the screen image. It’s free and it works wonders, what more could I ask for? But then, in an online discussion between fellow writers about how to [...]
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Marxio Timer allows you to control several aspects of your PC. It lets you do anything from turning off your computer to displaying certain text you’d like to remember later on. It’s a task manager/scheduler, reminder, alarm clock and more. This app tells your computer to execute tasks specified by you at the time you’d [...]
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I seldom use the word ‘best’ when it comes to reviewing apps, but when it comes to Shutter, it really is the best screen capture tool that I have ever used in Linux. Shutter (previously known as Gscrot) is just like a swiss army knife for all your screen capture tasks in Linux. There are [...]
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As a blogger I take so many damn screenshots it almost hurts. As a network administrator I take even more screenshots. Sometimes I have to take a screenie of a website but you can only capture what is actually displayed on the screen hence the name “screenshot”. So what do you do when a website [...]
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Evernote is becoming a favorite of many people for holding all their stuff. We put things into it. That’s a little vague, if you ask me. What Evernote actually does is offer you essentially a blank slate of information capture and management tools, that allows you to use their product for a huge number of [...]
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As an active blogger I need to make multiple screenshots daily. Screenshots help me visualize my posts and make them easier to understand. Screenshots are “infographics” of today’s web – they make information easier to understand and guides easier to follow. You’ll see them on each and every blog – no wonder screen capturing applications [...]
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It was while I was writing my previous story, Be Notified By SMS Everytime You Receive An Email, that I discovered a neat little program for taking screenshots of a Sony Ericsson mobile phone.  That is the phone I have and I was looking for a way to show you this SMS message on my [...]
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So how about a tool that is “an exquisite, powerful and multi-functional desktop utility. (It is an) All-In-One, Multi language, Simple and Standalone (no install).” Sounds interesting?  Well that is what was quoted on the developer’s site and instantly caught my attention. After trying it (and ignoring minor quirks in UI and spellings) I must [...]
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