by Nathaniel Poor
A longstanding and long-overlooked feature of the Mac OS that goes back many years is the ability to take various types of screenshots. You don’t need an application to do it (although there is Apple’s Grab), and you can do it from any application (except DVD-playing applications may not allow you to do so).
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by David Strom
This tip is the Mac companion to an earlier Tiplet article that talks about making screenshots on a Windows PC. The tool for the Mac is called Grab and is part of the Mac OS Utilities. If you go into your Applications/Utilities folder, you will find it there. It is simple and quick and produces high-quality images that you can paste into your documents, post to your blog, or incorporate into your presentations.
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by Tina Gasperson
Did you ever wish you could share what you’re looking at on your computer screen right now with someone else? Maybe you just beat your all-time high score in Solitaire, or you really like the new theme you just installed on your desktop. Did you know that you can make an image of anything that is displayed on your computer monitor, including Web sites, files, and pictures, manipulate it, and save it onto your hard drive in a format that’s easy to email or upload to the Internet? Taking a screenshot, as this is called, is very easy.
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by Gabe Goldberg
It’s often desirable or necessary to capture — that is, record into a file — what’s on your Windows screen. Windows has two basic tools for this: the Print Screen (or PrtScreen or some other variant) key captures the contents of your entire Windows desktop onto the Windows Clipboard; pressing Alt and PrintScreen captures only the active program window. Sometimes one of these choices is exactly what you need.
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