Two cool tools for capturing online info
 

This post might get moved, but the Europe forum is where I stay, so I'm sharing here.

I use these two tools very often when saving info I find online. Very very handy to have. I save the shortcut on the quick-launch bar, lower right of my screen.

<b>Snippy.exe</b>
This utility lets you draw a line around anything on your pc screen, and then it saves the contents as an image. You can paste the image into a document - I don't know how to save the image as an image - once you release the mouse button the image waits in cyberspace for you to paste it somewhere. I love 'Snippy'.
www.portablefreeware.com/?id=542

<b>PrintKey 2000</b>
This one takes a 'snapshot' of your pc screen, which you can save as an image or copy/paste into a document, or just print.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...scription.html

Hope these provide some enjoyment for you. A friend emailed me the Snippy.exe link, so I hope the above website is ok to use. I'm not concerned about the PCWorld download.

Snippy sounds cool, but every Windows PC has the capability you attribute to Printkey 2000 already built in. Just press the PrintScreen key to copy your entire screen -- or Alt+PrintScreen to capture only the active window -- and then Ctrl-V to paste it into Word, Paint, Photoshop, what have you.

Hint: careful resizing of the active window before hitting Alt+PrintScreen can get you perfectly sized results of things for special uses -- I use it to capture Google Maps screenshots, since their &quot;print&quot; function is so uncharacteristically bad. By resizing carefully, I can get images that exactly fit the printer margins in a Word doc.

And I've found, incidentally, that pasting a picture into Word, using the Word zoom facility to adjust the szie and THEN taking a screendump can give you a less pixellated final image than simply scaling the picture up and down within an image program. Don't ask me why.

When you use the Alt+Printscreen, does the image pop up in a new window? or is it just 'pending' until you paste it somewhere? (I can't tell anymore since I have PrintKey installed).

It's just sitting in your Clipboard -- you can't see it until you paste it somewhere.

Snippy seems to have killed my clipboard as well -- even after unloading it I can't copy and paste anything on my computer now.

Thank you, thank you, I've been trying for eons to copy and paste my Excel &quot;open&quot; window showing all of our active client spreadsheets. Brilliant.

fnarf999, I've been using Snippy for a couple years now, several pcs...I don't know what could be causing the problem on your pc, but I'm sorry you're having it.

if you use firefox, you can download an extention called scrapbook. it saves the whole page, not just what is visible on the screen. and you can even select for it to make the hyperlinks available!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427