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Apr 27 2009

Capturing Jaguar’s Screen

This week we have a few tools that will put you in charge of your screen.

Print Window

A truly missed feature of good old OS 9 is the ability to print windows. With Print Window you can bring that functionality back. This program can be activated with a command-P in the Finder or from the “services” menu. Preferences let you tweak what exactly is printed. Very useful.

Kunvert

If screenshots are more your style, then check out Kunvert. With Kunvert you can, well, convert those pesky PDF screenshots OS X generates into jpg’s without having to whip out Preview. Handy.

Capture 1.1

Now a freebie for our Mac OS 9 friends. This screen capture program is used to create 60 x 60 pixel graphic. Intended to help you make a thumbnail of your web site, it can also capture anything on the screen.

Be sure to tune in next week for a new batch of freeware,

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

Catch and Release– Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

Skitch

I must apologize for the fact that this app is still in invite-only beta. For those lucky enough to get in on the beta, its become the application for shooting and sharing their desktop. Skitch takes screenshots, allows you to edit the image and then share it via your MySkitch account.

skitch Catch and Release Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

Skitch includes many image-enhancing tools adding circles, arrows and text to images. There are other useful features like capture from iSight, iPhoto integration and a very slick interface. This is a beta application, and I have to say 3 of my first 5 screen caps crashed the app.

Jing

Jing is another shoot-and-share application. This one is cross platform and aims to integrate into the OS. Jing allows not only still image capture, but video capture as well.

jing Catch and Release Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

I didn’t have the most success with Jing, I also experienced crashes on capture, but your experience may be better. The promise of recording real-time video of your desktop is worth the shot.

ImageWell

My long-time favorite capture-and-share application has recently been updated. Among the new features is the ability to upload to Flickr, ImageShack and SmugMug. ImageWell is the only one of this week’s picks that is Panther compatible.

LogMeIn

This isn’t a screen cap utility, but it does allow you to share your screen. A preview version of this remote desktop tool is available now for Mac. It runs as a menu extra and allows you to share your desktop with others (and vice versa) via the ‘net.

That wraps our look at screen sharing. Time to tidy that desktop and get social.

Brian

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Feb 14 2008

Use Vara Software’s ScreenFlow to add some serious wow factor to your screencasts

ScreenFlow 20080214 193152 Use Vara Softwares ScreenFlow to add some serious wow factor to your screencastsI’ve been bouncing around the idea of converting many of our Photoshop tutorials and a few of my Lab with Leo demonstrations to screencasts here on MacMerc. I was considering using Snapz Pro X and Mousepose and incorporating my iSight to bring a semi-human face to the videos at appropriate times during the demos, but I could never get it to work.

Today, I can across ScreenFlow a new release from Vara Software. ScreenFlow is an advanced screencasting software package that does all the screen, camera, and audio capture you’d expect but also offers timeline-based editing features. This allows you to mix down your screencast with some pretty impressive effects like 3D or 2D Zoom & Pan, Mouse Callouts, Foreground Window Callouts, Picture-in-Picture, Reflection, Drop Shadow, and much more. Just amazing–check out the videos.

ScreenFlow is at the higher end of the shareware license scale (selling at USD$99.99) but if the videos on the site are anything to go by, it is also on the higher end of the shareware quality scale as well.

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