How to Screen Capture

2 Responses (Add) | Monday, May 28th, 2007 at 9:54pm

There’s so much screen capture software out there, it’s difficult to choose my favorite. Despite the plentitude of options, I usually stick with the plain ol’ Print Screen functionality. It works out of the box - albeit without few configuration options. If you want to capture the entire Desktop (albeit, only what’s being rendered in Software) - just tap the key and the image is copied to your clipboard.

More useful is the Alt + PrintScreen key combo - which only captures the active window. I demonstrated and detailed a few screen capture software options, but are always looking for more. Since recommending Window Clippings, it’s gone shareware with a version-based licensing strategy.

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2 Comments

Thomas

May 29th, 2007
at 1:09am

If you don’t have a specific screen capturing utility and you have Microsoft OneNote installed, the program has a pretty slick screen capture utility.
OneNote runs in the system tray. Clicking (Window + S) initiates the screen capture. Drag a rectangle around the area that you are interested in capturing. This allows some additional flexiblity for selecting a specific area of the screen.
If I had my options, I would prefer to use a specific screen capture program like snagit.