Since the purpose of this blog is to document things I'm working on (both for my sake and yours), using screen grabs (also called screen captures) is a great way to simplify any process.
Windows has a built-in method for capturing a window's contents as an image. CTRL+PrintScreen will copy the currently active window to the clipboard. You can then paste the image into any image editor, modify it as necessary and save it. Probably the most common edit I do is cropping the image to show just the bits of the screen I care about.
Since a fair bit of what I'm sure I'll be documenting is web-based, I'll need to grab pictures from web sites. There's a cool utility I just found that allows me to capture directly from Firefox. The add-on is called Screengrab! and is a breeze to use. You can capture either the entire page, the visible portion of the page. Even more handy is the ability to select a portion of the page - no more cropping in an external editor! You have the option to copy it to the clipboard (if you still need to do edits or want to paste it into some other program), or save it directly to your computer as a PNG file.
Pretty doggone cool if you ask me. Check it out!
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