Sunday, February 11, 2007

Snipping Tool to capture screenshots

Vista has this new feature to capture screenshots, Snipping Tool. No more Alt-Printscreen, saving to a file kind of hassels. With the Snipping Tool, you can use the mouse to select the image shape on the screen and snip it. There are following types of screen capture suppport:

1. Free-form Snip: For any type of irresular shapes like circles, ellipses...basically anything.
2. Rectangular Snip: For rectangle shapes.
3. Window Snip: All contents of a selected window.
4. Full-screen Snip: Entire screen will be captured.

Addition of this software into Vista is going to hurt the business of vendors who provide similar utilities. Well..it happens with every new release of Windows. People are going to debate if MS stuff is better than of those thirtd-party products, but for me, inbuilt apps do the normal jobs just fine.

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