Unfortunate Timing

Well i aimed to have a post today but that didn't happen. Real life intervened and I was unable to make my first post. I hope to edit this tomorrow to show you the reason behind this (needed a QUALITY print screen application). Took me over an hour to find the one i used to use (and prefer over windows default and others).

Point to ponder:Ever wonder why Print screen applications don't have screen shots?

EDIT: ah Tuesday i hope to get this weeks post done or else I'll never start my blog :/

Since i spent way more time then originally planned yesterday looking for a decent print screen application thats what I've decided to make my first post on. (the three images are 150k max so it shouldn't take too long to download even on dial-up) (EDIT 2 the images are 60k total blogger apparently resized the images and linked to the full size)


So by far the best application i have found after testing and trying to find one without massive bloat associated with the majority of free applications is ScreenPrint32. It has a nice set of options that make it a big plus over windows XP's default send to clipboard settings.

ScreenPrint 32 is free for personal and Educational use (I'm teaching you to use it and not making profit does that count?) If my page ever starts turning out money I WILL buy this program if I sill use it (probably will)


its has the basics offered by windows default but it has the added bonus of being able to allow user selection or pre-defined areas of a screen.

'On the fly' configuration allows you to chose how to handle each time you press the print screen button. ScreenPrint32 also allows you to change the capture key to F10, F11, or F12. In case you cannot/do not have a print screen button.







ScreenPrint32 also allows for direct printing and allows you to bypass going into an image editor pasting the image, saving and the opening it so you can print it.












Or rather then printing you can save the image to a file. You can have a default location or with on the fly configuration enable choose how you want to save the file, GIF, PNG, BMP, or JPG. If you disable 'on the fly' configuration then you set how you would like to save each file and what file type. PNG appears to be the smallest file size for me as well as highest quality.


In case you were wondering the answer to my question appears to be Print screen applications cannot take pictures of themselves. (i used windows default to take these, that took way too much work)

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