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ScreenSnag Lets You Create Multiple Screen Capture Profiles

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Screenshot tools seldom lose their relevance, especially for documentation and reporting purposes. Therefore, it is always beneficial to keep an eye on the best and most suited tools that match your requirements. Although we have covered an overview of the 5 best free screenshot capturing software, ScreenSnag has caught our attention, owing to its simple yet powerful interface, and some additional features that are bound to help you in the hour of need. All features are organized in accordance with user-defined profiles. The Caption, border, scale, timer, sound, cursor and other options promise to give you a unique screen capturing experience. With the standard modes, you can easily add captions to the captured images for documentation purposes. Read More

Capture Screenshots On Mac, Edit Them & Upload To Cloud

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Screenshot tools have been covered by us in abundance for multiple platforms and devices in the past. Mac screenshot tools have the default screenshot utility to compete with, and usually have one feature that will outdo the default Preview app in Mac. Monosnap is a free Mac app that takes screenshots, uploads them online to a cloud server and has a built in image editor for cropping, blurring, drawing and annotating the image. If you compare it to recent Mac screenshot tools that we’ve covered, it amasses most features into one app. Screenshots can be taken of a custom area on the screen, the entire screen or a 10 second time delayed capture of the entire screen. Monosnap requires you to signup using your Facebook account, and has customizable hotkeys for taking a full or area specific screenshot. Read More

Free Screenshot Capture Includes A Color Picker, Ruler, Protractor & Other Extra Tools

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One type of Windows applications that intrigue me a lot are Screenshot utilities. For me as a reviewer, screenshot tools let me demonstrate each and everything to my readers, in a simple way. Back in March, Fawad compiled a list of 5 of the best screenshot utilities for Windows. It looks like we have another winner on our hands, simply labeled as Free Screenshot Capture. Aside from being a screen capturing utility, this nifty little tool comes packed with various unique options including Webcam Capture, Protractor, Color Picker, Ruler, Magnifier, Brightness adjuster and a Whiteboard. Also included is a Screen Capture with Delay option, which enables the tool to automatically trigger the capture instance after a defined amount of time. It fully supports global hotkeys, letting you easily and instantly take the screenshots. The application sits in the system tray to provide you with quick screenshot capture modes and options. Read More

Take Pixel-Precise Screenshots In Mac OS X

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One of the very basic features of an image cropping tool should be to allow very precise control, i.e., users should be able to decide how many pixels they want to trim from any of the four sides. Such a crop tool is difficult to come by for Mac, and will likely have a bloated price tag. For users who need this specific functionality for screenshots, there is Precise Screenshot. It is an excellent Mac app priced reasonably at $1.99 and available in the Mac App Store. The app comes with screenshot size presets, but also allows you to trim the screenshot area by the pixel. A red frame that you can position anywhere on your screen outlines the screenshot area, and you can choose to either use this frame or capture the full screen. Precise Screenshot also has a time delay feature for taking screenshots (both full screen and area specific), and once captured, they can be stored as files in PNG, TIFF or JPG formats, or copied to the clipboard for pasting. A number is appended to successive screenshot files, and they can be saved to any folder of your choice. Read More

TimeSnapper Auto-Captures Screenshots At Custom Intervals & Plays Them Back Like A Video

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Time tracking has wide scale applications in project management where detailed timesheets demand a great memory. Going back in time helps workers and managers identify 0weak areas that are hindering performance and curtailing efficiency in large scale production scenarios. For strict office environments, administrators can keep a check on every click on employees' systems and eradicate all non-work activities for their betterment. However, this isn't just applicable at macro-level; an individual can analyze the time spent on his or her computer with activity details and productivity insights by rewinding and viewing their tech deeds like a movie. TimeSnapper is a sleek tool that makes doing this extremely easy. It lets you record and analyze activity on your system with the help of custom snapshot intervals. Read More

Free ShareShot: Take Screenshots, Edit & Optimize Them For Direct Printing & Web

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Screenshots are the basic need of every blogger. While explaining something, screenshots play the role of a visual aid, as well as confirmation for correct execution of any function that you are trying to explain in your article. For instance, if you are writing an article about performing a task which requires the readers to perform some step by step actions (a tip on how to install Windows 8 on VirtualBox, perhaps), providing the readers with screenshots of each dialog box, and the correct settings to choose in order to configure, make the process a lot easier than if only text were written. Here at AddictiveTips, we take special care in providing our readers with accurate and high quality screenshots within our posts. If you are looking for an easy-to-use screenshot tool that allows you to capture high quality images, check out Free ShareShot. It is an application for Windows that allows you to capture screenshots and edit them to highlight certain portions using conventional marking and annotation tools. It has four capture modes: Capture Region, Capture Last Region, Capture Window and Capture Full Screen, which can be triggered using pre-defined hotkeys. Read More

Site Collector: Take Periodic Screenshots Of Entire Web Pages [Mac]

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The need to take screenshots isn’t just confined to your desktop. For many intents and purposes, screenshots of web pages are also required. For longer pages, this can be a challenge, since you will have to scroll several times to see the full page. There are browser extensions and add-ons built to do this, but they don’t always work for all types of sites, or ‘break’ after a while. For Mac users, there is a simple solution; Site Collector is a free Mac app that not only takes screenshots of entire webpages, but also allows you to schedule your captures by a predefined time interval. Site Collector is something of a screenshot aggregation tool for multiple websites. It allows you to enter several websites and select how frequently the app should capture a full page screenshot of each one. The screenshots are free of the browser window, although the preview is always shown in Safari. Read More

Lightshot: Take Screenshots On Mac OS X, Edit & Share Them Online

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Screenshot tools are something you just can’t get enough of. Until you find the very perfect tool that lets you capture screenshots via brain waves, it’s safe to say that there will always be yet-another-tool with a different set of features. Lightshot Screenshot is a free Mac app that, as the name implies, is for taking screenshots. What’s great about this app is that it comes with an online image editor, the interface of which is exactly like that of the Pixlr online image editor (full review here) with image layer support. You can capture any area on your screen and open it in your default browser for editing, upload it and get the link to the image directly on your desktop or share it via email (opens in the default email client), on Twitter & Facebook, and search for it on Tineye or Google Images. Now that's impressive, even by our high standards! Read More

Remove Mac App Window Drop Shadows Completely Or Just For Screenshots [Tip]

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Application windows in Mac appear to float on your desktop and this effect is created using drop shadows around the edges of the window. While Windows 7 also supports shadows, the effect is nothing like what you see in Mac. In addition to the visual appeal, these shadows also help distinguish one app window’s edge from that of another. Although the shadows contribute to both functionality and visual appeal, they become somewhat useless and even ugly when they show up in a screenshot. In this post, we will guide you through the process of disabling shadow effect from both app windows and screenshots. Read More

Gadwin PrintScreen: Capture Timed Screenshots, Copy To Clipboard, Resize, Share & Print Them

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At AddictiveTips, we are always looking for newer and better software that can make the life of our readers simpler. Screenshots are used in several situations - from creating a manual to getting help on a forum - screenshots act as a visual aid to the topic or problem under discussion. Screenshots are also a great way to make those boring and complicated tutorials easy. Moreover, there are times when you can't explain something only in words, and a screenshot does wonders for the author in getting the message across, and for the readers to understand exactly what the writer meant. Imagine how bland the articles here at AddictiveTips would look if we stop adding screenshots with the text. We have covered a lot of useful screenshot taking tools, such as GreenShot (reviewed here) and Shotty (reviewed here), which let you take screenshots of your complete desktop screen, a particular window or a specific region. Today, we have another screenshot application called Gadwin PrintScreen, to add to the list of good screenshots taking tools. The application allows you to take screenshots using a hotkey, has four capture modes, saves the captured image to a file as well as Windows Clipboard, and specify the file format and image size for saving the screenshot. Read More

Take Time-Delayed Screenshots With Mac Preview & 3 Other Tricks [Tip]

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On the surface of it, Mac’s default image viewer seems lacklustre. Sure, it lets you view your images, and is, in effect, the Mac’s sole native screenshot taking tool, but it doesn’t seem as feature rich as it should be. That's perhaps why you often find a whole host of screenshot tools for Mac, but Preview can actually do more. This little tip not only shows you how to take a time-delayed screenshot of your entire screen via Preview, but also how to resize the selected screenshot area proportionately along either y-axis or x-axis, and how to move the selection area around to a different part of the screen. Read More

ShareX: Grab Screenshots Using Several Capture Modes & Upload To 20+ Image Sharing Services

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Back in 2009, we covered a screenshot capturing tool called ZScreen. The utility garnered instant acclaim due to its ability to not only capture high resolution screenshots, but also upload them directly to over 20 different sites or your FTP server. The author of this tool, who also happens to be the author of ZUploader - has stopped adding new features to both applications, and incorporated the most salient features of both tools (ZScreen and ZUploader) into a single software named ShareX. It is an open-source utility that lets you take screenshots, and send them to the Windows clipboard, save them at any local location, or upload captured images directly to 20+ different image sharing websites including Imgur, Flicker, Twitpic, Dropbox, Pastebin and more. Moreover, you can also choose to share the screenshots via email or to upload it to FTP server. Unlike conventional screen capture utilities, you can take screenshots in different shapes (rounded, eclipse, triangular and so on). The application sits in the system tray, and allows you to take screenshots using simple hotkey combinations. Read More

Snip: Region Centric Screenshot Tool That Lets You Add Text & Shapes [Mac]

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Screenshots tools aren’t uncommon, but with perhaps the one exception of Skitch, most of the good ones will cost you. A normally good screenshot app comes coupled with an online service, and even then, there are few that support image editing. Snip is a free Mac app that focuses on capturing a user defined region. Before the image is saved, the app allows you to add shapes like a square, rectangle, ellipse or draw free hand. There is also a text tool that allows you to enter text in any font size (font type is fixed). The app additionally copies the screenshot to your clipboard, so you can paste it anywhere. It runs in the Menu Bar, and can be activated using a customizable keyboard shortcut. Read More

RumShot: Take Screenshots & Create Awesome Themed Previews With Them

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We always emphasize the importance of screenshot capturing utilities and how they can help you explain system problems to your friends or an expert. Just last month, Fawad compiled a list of five of the best free screenshot tools available out there. Today, we will take a closer look into yet another awesome screenshot application labelled RumShot. Created by Andrew Powell from Shellscape Software, this unique software, unlike other screenshot capturing utilities, comes with a twist. Along with grabbing high-resolution shots of your desktop, it also generates beautiful-looking screen previews, snuggled in with a wide variety of user-created themes. It doesn’t contain a plethora of features like other famous tools, including our own favorites, Greenshot and Shotty, but rather depicts a fancy new idea of how we can share different parts of our screens. The intuitive interface takes just a little time to get used to, and comprises a very simple layout. Read on for details. Read More

Schirmfoto: Screenshot Taking, Editing & Sharing App With A Metro UI

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Screenshot taking tools come in many shapes and sizes. Some of them provide you with a lot of options for editing the screenshots, while others provide you with a quick way to upload the image online and share it with others. We have covered numerous types of screen capturing utilities, which provide you with different sets of features to take, edit and annotate captured images, and save them to local or remote locations. Today, we stumbled across another awesome screenshot taking tool with a Metro UI design, called Schirmfoto. It allows users to quickly take screenshots, edit them, add annotations and shapes such as Text, Arrows, Rectangles, Circles, Crop images and upload them to Facebook, Twitter or Schirmfoto cloud storage directly from within the application. Keep reading to find out more about Schrimfoto. Read More

Image Snatcher: Take Screenshots & Instantly Upload Them To The Web

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Screenshot capturing tools are an excellent way of making things understandable for others, as they say "A picture is worth a thousand words", so where words fail, screenshots can help you out. This is one of the reasons that we keep covering a wide array of such tools from time to time for you guys. Among those that we have reviewed so far, Shotty (reviewed here) and GreenShot (reviewed here) are the ones that we found to have the best combination of both features, and simplicity. But talking about simplicity, there's another one in town, that might hold the crown to have a very minimalistic design for a screenshot utility. Labeled as Image Snatcher, it is yet another such screen capturing tool that - along with being very user-friendly - might claim a top spot among your favorite screen capturing tools. It allows you to grab any part of the screen and instantly upload it to the web, so you can easily share it with your friends and colleagues over the internet. It’s a portable application which means you can save it on a flash drive and take it anywhere you want, and on top of that it comes with quite simple controls. In fact, it has no interface at all; just fire it up, grab a snippet and share. Let’s dig in and find out how it works. Read More

Screenshot Journal Helps You Manage Your iPhone & iPad Screenshots

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Until recently, iOS was the only smartphone platform that came with built-in screenshot capabilities (now, of course, the feature is available in the newest version of Android, ICS, as well). Due to the availability of this feature in iOS, the stock Photos app tends to accumulate a lot of screenshots over time. Unfortunately, an iOS device cannot differentiate between an ordinary photo and a screenshot natively, and treats them just the same. This can prove to be a bit of a nuisance on a lot of occasions, and it can take hours of your precious time if you go about separating screenshots and photos manually. This is where Screenshot Journal comes to the rescue. This paid iOS app automatically imports all the screenshots found in your iPhone or iPad and allows you to sort them out from within its interface. This little tool can be particularly handy for UI designers, who have countless interface mockups and screenshots cluttering their camera rolls. Read More

FluffyApp Updated With New UI, Option To Quickly Create & Upload Notes To CloudApp

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Cloud is the latest and greatest talks of the internet these days. No longer do we need to keep everything within a device, with Cloud, we can access any file anywhere, provided there is an active internet connection. Taking advantage of the features provided by cloud computing, various companies have made its use, in one way or the other. One of those is CloudApp. CloudApp is a small application for Mac that is a very famous tool for uploading files to the cloud. There wasn't any Windows alternative to it until back in 2010, when we covered FluffyApp, an application that allows Windows users to upload files to CloudApp. Users are allowed to upload files by dragging it over the system tray icon or by simply navigating to the file. Moreover, it enables users to instantly capture and upload screenshots to the cloud. It basically provides everything of CloudApp from Windows perspective. FluffyApp has come a long way since its first release, and a recent update by the developers has brought version 2 of the application to the market. So, we thought of checking out all the changes that have been included in the application since the first release. Keep reading to find more. Read More

Clipular: Capture & Catalog Parts Of Websites As Clippings & Bookmarks [Chrome]

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Rather then copying or downloading images, text, links and other content manually when browsing, you're better off with Clipular, a Chrome extension that lets you pick tools such as scissors, camera and a clipboard so you can cut and paste the web in a new, fast and elegant way. You can use Clipular to collect and bookmark anything, such as a specific comments, photos, paragraphs from an article, or a screenshot of the entire webpage, for later viewing. Clipular lets you pick your scissors, camera and clipboard with a click, just like how you reach for those on your desk. Once you’ve clipped a part of a page or taken a screenshot, the clippings are saved and displayed with auto-generated titles and source links. You can then click these source links and view content at a later time. Moreover, quick notes and tags can be added to each clip, without any pop-ups or interruptions. Note that all links are encrypted for security and privacy. Read More

CapShare: Instantly Share Screenshots Or Stored Images On Facebook

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There are tons of different tools available that let you capture screenshots of your computer screen, and we have also covered quite a lot of them from time to time. The most popular ones contain plethora of features (even a few unnecessary ones, yup!) such as Greenshot, Shotty and LiveCapture etc., but they still lack one major option, i.e. sharing captured screens directly on Facebook. Well don't worry though as CapShare can do that for you. It is a lightweight screen capturing tool that aims to fill that gap by capturing screenshots and uploading on the social network giant. It not only lets you to capture any part of your screen and share it on Facebook, but you can also upload any image file which is stored on your computer, instantly. It makes it quite easy to share images with your Facebook friends. Read past the jump for more details. Read More