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Take Screenshots On WP7 & Transfer Them To PC Over Wi-Fi [Homebrew]

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No one is exactly sure why, but Windows Phone 7 makes a big deal about not letting any screenshot app slip into the Marketplace. This gets annoying on numerous occasions, and for us at least, the number one reason to be running a custom ROM on our Omnia 7, is the ability to take screenshots of the apps we review. So far only a handful of options exist if you want to take screenshots of your Mango phone, as you can read in our roundup of WP7 screenshot tools here. Now, WP Screenshot has become the newest addition to the rather short list of screenshot apps in WP7. However, WP Screenshot is no ordinary app, as it lets you do something which no other app has ever done before. This homebrew comes with a desktop client, and the screenshots you take with this app will show up straight on your PC, as long as both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network. Read More

Imgup: Upload Any Image Or Screenshot To Imgur From Menu Bar [Mac]

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Imugr is a popular image sharing service and is widely preferred by Redditors. Whether you’re a Redditor or not, the service is excellent nonetheless. The best part is, for images you don’t care to protect by privacy settings, you can upload and share them without even needing an account on the site. Imgup is a free Mac app that sits in the menu bar and lets you upload any image directly to Imgur. Additionally, it integrates with the default Mac screenshot shortcuts, and by pressing the Option key in addition to the hotkeys, the app uploads the screenshot directly to Imgur and you can view thumbnails of them from the menu bar. Clicking on the thumbnail opens the direct link of the image in your browser. Read More

SnapCrab: The Best Features From Screenshot Tools Shotty & Greenshot Combined Into One

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Recently, we brought you a roundup of 5 best free screenshot capturing software that we had previously featured on AddictiveTips. Apart from screenshot taking utilities, we also compiled a list of 6 free photo sharing and screenshot taking tools. Today we found an awesome screenshot taking application called SnapCrab, which is worth adding to both aforementioned roundups. It hosts a huge array of features, screenshot taking modes, along with an option to capture Windows 7 Aero Glass effect. It is a screen capturing tool that combines best features from previously covered Greenshot and Shotty. When capturing a window, just like previously featured Shotty, it retains the Aero-Glass effect of Windows Vista and Windows 7 app windows. You can also configure the application to share the captured images on Facebook and Twitter or save them directly to Evernote. Keep reading to find out more about SnapCrab. Read More

Verity: Protect Your Kids By Blocking Harmful Websites & Applications

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Monitoring the internet use of children has become almost a necessity for parents if they want to ensure that their child is not being exposed to adult or harmful material. Internet is now filled with so much time wasting and potentially harmful content that you can easily lose focus whether your child is doing his school work or browsing around the YouTube or other streaming sites. How much monitoring and control there should be, is, however, a debatable topic. And depends on the country and culture you're part of. Previously, we have covered some nice parental control and monitoring software, such as Qustodio, Weblock For Kids, The Web Blocker, Activity Monitor and Cyberoids Web Blocker. All these aforementioned tools are quite handy to keep your children safe from various forbidden activities on the internet. Verity is another such parental control software that allows you to monitor and track the computer and internet activity of your child. You can block websites and applications with parental controls and track activity by user, program, keystrokes, mouse clicks and screenshots. It lets you view what you kids are doing on the computer and online in an easy, non-invasive manner. More on Verity after the break. Read More

5 Best Free Screen Capture Software For Windows

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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. We have covered a lot of screenshot-taking tools in the recent, as well as not-so-recent past. Today, we thought of picking out some of the best screenshot tools and comparing them against each other for our readers. The following articles contains a roundup of five of the best screenshot taking tools featured on AddictiveTips. Read More

Snappy: Capture Screenshots On Time, Mouse & Keyboard Events

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A lot of different screenshot tools tend to offer different options for taking screenshots. Some of them are good for grabbing screen area, some work best for capturing whole windows, while others are useful when you want to take scrollable screenshots of webpages. However, a screenshot tool can only have so many options. Since these applications are mostly focused on capturing screenshots, while their image editors don’t have a lot of options. Snappy is a desktop-capture software for Windows that allows users to capture the screen of your computer and edit the image, such as its RGB settings, brightness, contrast etc. It also features a very interest “Event Capture” option, allowing you to take a screenshot of your desktop when specified events occur. Moreover, it also allows you to export the screenshots in BMP, JPEG, PNG, PDF, XML and AVI formats. More on Snappy after the break. Read More

Include Mouse Cursor In Your Mac Screenshots Using Grab Utility [Tip]

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We review screenshot apps on and off for both Mac and Windows. As with most Mac apps, finding a feature rich free app that takes great screenshots is pretty hard, and there wasn't a free app (as far as we found) that let you capture the mouse in your screenshots. On Windows, it is super easy to do so with the likes of Greenshot. For Mac, there is actually an built-in way to do this (provided you’re using OS X Lion). The Grab utility that comes pre-installed on your Mac not only has an option to capture the cursor, but also lets you choose what the cursor will look like. For those who haven’t given Grab a spin yet, it lets you capture the entire screen, an area of the screen, a window, and take a time delayed screenshot of the entire screen. Read More

Change Default Save Location & Format For Screenshots In Mac [Tip]

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Do you take a lot of screenshots on Mac and primarily use the built-in screenshot utility to do so? The default utility may not be feature rich, but it gets the job done and lets you capture the entire screen, a window or just an area. The slight problem or inconvenience with it is that it saves those screenshots to your desktop, and that can add up to a lot of icons in a very short span of time. Here are two tips for changing the default location for saving the screenshots and the default format. Both are simple terminal commands that can be executed with little or no technical knowledge. Read More

AeroShot Takes Window Screenshots With Opaque/ Custom Background Color

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Sometimes, we write about a new application because we really like its features, but mostly, the reason is that we see a lot of potential in the application and advise the developer to fix the problems that we find during our testing. Both GreenShot and Shotty are awesome screenshot taking applications and are the primary screenshot capturing tools for a lot of us. However, we keep reviewing new software with different options, so that our readers have alternatives to choose from. Working on the same lines, we bring to you a screenshot capturing application called AeroShot. It is an open source application for Windows that allows you to capture screenshots of a window while preserving its transparency. Read More

Pixa: Screenshot Capturing Tool With Picture Manager & Organizer [Mac]

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Screenshot tools for Mac do more than just capture what’s on your screen; Grrrabit takes screenshots and uploads them online for you, while SnapNDrag is one of the few tools that lets you take a time delayed screenshot of your entire screen. Pixa is a free Mac app that not only captures screenshots, but also builds a library of them. It is equipped with a picture manager that can help tag images and filter them by color. The app has an excellent interface, and lets you easily browse images on your Mac. You can create folders and projects to keep your images organized, and quickly export them in JPG and PNG formats. Read More

Capture Desktop Screenshots At Regular Intervals With AutScreenCap

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Screenshots are a great way to complete your story and give a clearer picture to your reader of what you are trying to say. Reading the text may confuse someone, but a picture depicts exactly how things should appear before the user. Other than that, it is also helpful for those people to understand your article who are not completely familiar with the language its written in. Previously, we have covered some very good screen capturing tools, like Greenshot, an open source utility best for taking screenshots of a particular region, and Shotty, a tool that includes Windows 7 Aero-Glass effect in screenshots with semitransparent border, along with the shadow of the active window. They very useful for taking screenshots of a particular screen area, a specific window or the whole desktop, but what they doesn’t allow you to do is take periodic screenshots of your desktop. If you want to take screenshots of your computer screen at fixed intervals, AutoScreenCap is the tool for you. It is an open source utility for Windows that allows you to periodically capture screenshots of your desktop and save them in JPG format on your hard drive. Keep reading to find out more about AutoScreenCap. Read More

TinyGrab: Capture Screenshots Using Mac’s Native Utility & Upload To Cloud

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Last year, we reviewed TinyGrab for Windows, a screenshot sharing app that allows you to take screenshots and upload them to your online account. At the same time, the app also copies the URL of the file to your clipboard, so you can easily paste it anywhere for sharing. For Mac users who would have liked something similar, TinyGrab now has a Mac app available in the Mac App Store, for free. The app, like the Windows version, requires you to sign up for a free account and has a killer interface. It adds a simple icon to the menu bar and shows upload options and progress in a small popup. Read More

Capture Screenshots Of All Open Chrome Tabs In A Separate Window

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Recently, we covered a Chrome extension, Tab Expose, that allowed users to manage their open tabs more effectively with thumbnail previews. Chrome Tab Panel- Expose Tabs is a similar extension for Chrome that takes screenshots of all your open tabs and displays them in a new app window. This window is launched when the button is clicked in the toolbar and runs as a separate process. With it, you can quickly open or close selected tabs. Moreover, a tab count is displayed on the button in the toolbar to show how many tabs you have open in total. Read More

Bilderman: Automatically Resize Screenshots To User-Specified Size

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With the massive number of screenshot tools out there, it is very difficult for developers to think of new options for adding to the screenshot tool that are not already a part of some previously released software. Due to the same reason, it also becomes almost impossible for users to rate one screenshot taking utility as the best one. Every application comes with its own strengths and weaknesses, such as Screen Capture + Print that provides you with three options after taking a screenshot; Print, Copy to Clipboard, and Save to File, Owely that lets you take screenshots, quickly edit them and instantly upload to Owely’s servers for sharing and TipCase Web Snapshot, a portable application for Windows that lets you easily capture the full-page screenshots of web pages. Today, we have another portable screenshot capturing application named Bilderman, which automatically resizes a captured screenshot before saving it in the specified location. Keep reading to find out more about Bilderman. Read More

Easily Capture Complete Webpage Screenshots With TipCase Web Snapshot

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One of the most useful utilities available for all major platforms are screenshot tools. Screenshots are a great way to make those boring and complicated tutorials easy. Including images with text adds color to it, and makes it more interesting for the reader. Moreover, there are times when you can explain something only with 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. I have always liked this quote, 'a picture is worth a thousand words' -  it stands true for screenshots as well. Windows also comes packed with Snipping Tool that provides all their is to capture most kind of screens. Previously, we have also covered some very good applications for taking high quality screenshots, such as Shotty, which finely preserves Aero effect in screens and Greenshot, one of the best screen taking tools. However,  both of these utilities do not allow you to take screenshots of a complete webpage. Yes, taking screenshots of entire webpage has its own good reasons. Worry not though, as TipCase Web Snapshot is here to get this job done for you . It is a portable application for Windows that lets you easily capture the full-page screenshots of web pages, with as little effort as there is. Read More

Kwout: Capture Parts Of Websites & Share On Social Networks [Chrome]

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When we come across interesting images or other interesting content on website, we often share links with our friends in one way or another, but with Kwout, you can share stuff more efficiently by quoting specific parts of a webpage as images. This useful Chrome extension, allows you to select parts of webpages as an image with an image map. Once you’ve installed the extension, all you have to do is, place the selector box over the are you want to share ad upload it to post it on popular social networks. Users should note that all hyperlinks are still active even after the part is quoted. The images can be shared on popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr and more. Read More

Backdrop: Take Screenshots With Clean Desktop & Run Pixel Test [Mac]

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We recently covered Screenshot Helper, a Mac app that assists you in taking screenshots. Backdrop is a similar app that lets you choose any one color as the desktop background or any image. The image/color is superimposed on your desktop such that it hides all the icons. Additionally, the app also allows you to run a pixel test on your screen to identify dead/stuck pixels. For a user defined interval, the app fills the entire screen with red, green, blue, white and black colors are off. You can choose to keep the icons on your desktop and use the app to put a cleaner wallpaper on the desktop. The app can hide icons across multiple monitors by applying the background color or image you’ve chosen over all displays. Read More

Screenshot Plus Widget: Screen Capturing Dashboard Tool For Mac

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Screenshot apps aren’t hard to come by for any platform - desktop or mobile - and we’ve certainly covered a whole slew of them. Of the many Mac variants that we’ve covered, they all had one thing in common; they were apps. Screenshot Plus Widget is a widget for Mac that rests on your Dashboard, and is as feature rich, if not more, as SnapNDrag. The widget not only does the basic screen, window and area capturing, but also allows you to take a timed screenshot of any desktop space or the Dashboard. It lets you save images in JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF and PDF formats, and lets you choose one of four actions to perform after capturing a screenshot and save it to any location on your hard drive. Read More

Screenshot Helper: Hide Icons, Menu Bar & Dock To Take Snapshots [Mac]

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We’ve covered several apps in the past that let you take screenshots. Each one had its own special features, but what you rarely come across, is an app that is meant to facilitate taking better screenshots. Screenshot Helper is a free Mac app that does not capture screenshots itself, but is actually meant to help you take better screenshots by covering the desktop with either a solid color or an image, hiding all icons on your desktop and hiding the menu bar and Dock. All windows remain visible, and can be minimized as per your preferences. Once you’ve cleared out your desktop, use your favorite screenshot app and capture as many snapshots as you like. Read More

Nanoshot: Capture & Upload Screenshots To Cloud In Ubuntu

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In a previous post, we showed you three different ways of capturing screenshots in Ubuntu and later reviewed, Lookit, which is a handy screenshot capturing utility for Ubuntu, which enables uploading captured screenshots to the cloud. Recently, we found another handy screenshot taking application for Ubuntu, known as Nanoshot. It provides users with the utility to capture screenshots to upload them to cloud services like Flickr, and to grab screens from specific elements such as a video frame or the Unity Launcher. Read More