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Over the years I’ve tried a lot of screen capture utilities — some TSR, some not. I’ve always ended up back at “print screen” and pasting it into a full-blown app for editing… until now. I heard about Snippy from a friend and have fallen in love with it! It’s just a nice, basic utility to let you capture exactly what you want to capture from the screen with little or no bells and whistles to muck things up.
It makes documenting things for clients a snap! “-)
1. Click on Snippy
2. Select Area to Capture
3. [Magic Happens]
4. Right click on Snippy and Save
5. Repeat as necessary
Hypothetically you can paste directly into a document instead of saving the image like I do, but I prefer to get all the images at once and then fool around with placement in the target document.
Here’s a review from Appsource.com (a PCMag Network Site):
“Snippy is a tiny application, only about 84KB, that will help make taking screenshots much easier. Sure, you can just press print-screen and paste the image into paint, but that doesn’t let you take shots of only part of your screen, or let you freehand what you need to take a shot of and exclude what you don’t need. When you use Snippy, you get a cursor that lets you draw around what you want a screenshot of. When you let go of the mouse, the image is stored in the clipboard, ready to be pasted into any document of your choice. If you hold down shift when you click Snippy, you get a target cursor that will take rectangular shots of whatever you select.”
“The best part about Snippy is that it’s lightweight and portable. It doesn’t require an installation, and the executable can be stored on a USB drive or copied from computer to computer easily. Best of all, it’s free.”
[Source: http://www.appscout.com/2007/04/snippy_makes_screenshots_easy.php]
And here’s some info from the Author of Snippy:
“Simply save the Snippy executable in some convenient location on your hard-drive. We also recommend that you add a shortcut to your Startup folder so that Snippy starts up automatically when you turn on your computer.”
“Snippy works only with Windows XP.”
[Source: http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/]
Download Snippy here: http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/SnippyDownload.htm (Note: Download starts immediately; for more info read the Source page link above.]
