A short tip.
Yesterday I had to send a portion of a screen shot via email to someone. At work I use a tool called Snagit which does a fine job. However for simple tasks Windows 7 has a great built in tool that you can use to screen capture your desk top. Called Snipping Tool its a very easy product to use.
Simply start the program from the start menu, then click and drag the area you want to capture. At that point you can draw on the image to hightlight a particular item. You can then copy the screen clip to the clipboard. email someone or save it as a jpeg. Very useful tool. More info can be found at the Microsoft Windows 7 Features Section.
Mac OS says, “you’re welcome” for giving this idea to Windows. We’ve been drag & cut’ing, full-screen’ing and copy-to-clipboard’ing screen captures as a built-in feature since at least Mac OS 8.5 from 1988. And we still do it with hot-keys, not a separate application. And, since OS X, can choose to the screen capture format to be tiff, jpeg, gif or png.
We look forward to your discovering more Mac OS features when they’re released in Windows 8 …
Well windows has had print screen and window screen caps via hot keys since 3.1 (almost 20 years) but for some of the custom things, one had to go with a third party program. 🙂