I’ve been sitting next to “The Jon Box” for the past few days during an internal training class in Chicago. If anybody knows Jon, they know he’s a big St. Louis Cardinals fan. It’s amazing that we’ve lasted this long sitting next to each other with a Cards fan and a Cubs fan sitting next to each other for so long, but we’ve managed.
Jon was bragging about his true love of the Cardinals with his recently acquired Baseball Team Score Vista Gadget that let’s him keep tabs on his lowly baseball team. He was bragging so much that he blogged about it.
Reading his blog post, Iasked Jon how hecaptured the screencapture of the gadget; he toldme heused the ancient art of Alt-Print Screen. Turns out if you click on a Vista Gadget, you set focus to the gadget and Alt-Print Screen works as expected. It turns out that gadgetsseem to be running as their ownapplication windows.
I told Jon to let the past go already and jump into the 21st century with some great tools found right in Windows Vista. Vista comes with it’s own screen capture utility called Snipping Tool. You can find the Snipping Tool under the Accessories Menu of the Start menu. The Snipping Tool is a great little utility for capturing all types of screen captures: Free-form Snip, Rectangular Snip, Full-Screen Snip and Window Snip that snaps the lines against any Window instance on your desktop including your gadgets.
Jon Box has learned something new today - amazing!
June 14, 2007 at 18:25
also check out winsnap - a free utility — that enables some additional features — there, now dave bost has learned something new ;-)
June 14, 2007 at 19:56
And of course, OneNote 2007 has a square shaped snipping tool available from the insert menu, as well. It inserts the snip immediately into OneNote without the “control-v” overhead, and is a great way to quickly take multiple captures from Live Meetings, PowerPoint decks, or just about anything else.
June 15, 2007 at 00:59
Indeed I did, Tim. But that’s not saying much. :)