IrfanView is a popular image viewer capable of opening a wide array of common and rare file types. It has an array of features that make it useful in this function, but also in related tasks. Not only can you use it as a simple image viewer, but also as a wallpaper manager, wallpaper changer, [...]

Categories: Spyware, Windows

Windows users have lots of choice when it comes to taking screenshots. They can use the Print screen and do without software, or install one of the many free or commercial screenshot taking applications. My favorite program for the job until now was MWSnap, a lightweight screen capturing software that is unfortunately not developed anymore [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The free Firefox add-on Pixel Grabber makes it dead easy to take screenshots in the browser. How does it work? Simply right-click on a page, or click on the status bar icon to grab a screenshot of the whole page, custom or visible area. The first and last option display a selection menu to download [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Microsoft switched to the Windows Aero theme engine in Windows Vista, and kept that core engine in Windows 7 as well. Aero, among other things, adds eye candy to the Windows desktop. It adds transparency effects and shadows to windows, which is all fine and good, unless a screenshot needs to be taken. Screenshots with [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Most Windows users think of Microsoft Paint as a basic image editor that comes with the operating system. While that may be true for most there are artists out there that can do some pretty amazing things with Paint, but then again, they could probably do much better in advanced image editing programs like Paint.net [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Users who want to preserve information found on a website have several options to do that. They can save the webpage which creates a local HTML copy on the computer system, save specific elements, copy and paste text or use a screenshot tool to turn the web page into an image which is an elegant [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Taking a screenshot in the Windows operating system can be as easy as pressing the print screen on the computer keyboard. It becomes slightly more complicated when only a part of the screen needs to be recorded. The screenshot that has been taken with the print key can either be edited in an image editor [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Software, Windows

JShot is a free screenshot capture tool for Windows and Linux that provides computer users with all the functionality needed to take and edit screenshots of their computer screen. The program offers all the features expected from a screen capture tool plus some additional features. A configuration window is displayed on the first startup of [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Windows print screen key will copy the complete screen to the Windows clipboard whenever it is pressed by the user. Many users install programs that give them more control over the screenshot taking process. Hardcopy is such a program. It is a lightweight application that adds several new features that make it easier to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows