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LIghtshot for taking screen pics

Lightshot claims that that it's the fastest way to take a customisable screenshot. Select an area on the screen, copy it and it automatically gets uploaded to their servers with a link so that you can start using it at once. One thing I particularly liked was the ability to do a similar image search from the picture that you've just captured. It's a freebie and it works on various different platforms. 

Icecream Screen Recorder

If you're looking for something that is quick, easy to use and above all free, in order to capture your screen, take a screenshot or record YouTube videos then take a look at Icecream Screen Recorder. It's an excellent product, and is easily comparable to priced products. 

You can choose sections of the screen, add in watermarks, use a drawing option, check your history, add a webcam and zoom in. It's very impressive indeed!

Free Video Editor

If you're still looking for a nice simple package that allows you to capture what you're doing on your screen and annotate it, then it's worth taking a look at the resource provided by Flash Integro. The Video Editor is a tool you download but which allows you to create your own videos quickly and easily. Excellent if you want to provide a quick training tutorial, or demonstrate to Tech Support what's going wrong. It's also entirely free. 

Icecream Screen Recorder2

There are lots of screen recording tools out there, and this is a new one which looks rather neat. Icecream Screen Recorder allows you to capture any area of your screen, as a screenshot or a video file. You can record what you're doing, use webcam footage, annotate the area that you're getting and so on. It is a download, rather than browser based, but it's worth doing it. 

Ezvid for screen capture

I've taken a look at Ezvid, which is a freebie that you can download. It's very similar to products such as BB Flashback (which is the tool that I use), except that it's entirely free. Ezvid is very advanced, and you can drop in your own images, music, rearrange sections of the video, choose parts of the screen to video, use a webcam and so on. It's not a browser based product, but to be honest, if you're after power and complexity, you're only going to get it with downloaded tools. This is certainly worth a look!

TinyTake - Screen Capture Software

According to the site "TinyTake is a free screen capture software for Microsoft Windows. With TinyTake, you can capture images and videos of your computer screen, add comments and share them with others in minutes." It's a product that you have to download, and it sits in your Windows task bar - none of the Mac stuff for this tool! You can take a screen capture, annotate it and then share it as necessary.

To be honest, it looks perfectly fine, but I know that for a lot of people downloading tools isn't permissable, and if you *can* download tools, I'd still stick with something like BB Flashback Express or Jing.

Neox Screen

Free ScreenShot Application There are plenty of applications that let you take screenshots of webpages, but not that many that will let you turn those into a variety of shapes. This is one of them; ellipse, triangle, diamond, polygon, user generated - the choice is yours. You can also upload the finished item directly to a website and then get a link to it to use however you want. It's a freebie, but does require a download.

More screen grab software

Once you start to look around for software, it all comes tumbling out. I just wrote about Screencrab and I find a bunch of others. You have ScreenHunter Free, which is quite complex, with lots of functionality, including the ability to capture a long page, and you can add a variety of different effects. Most of the funky stuff you have to pay for however, and the Pro version will set you back about $30. Another priced product is Gadwin Print Screen, which is $5 cheaper. I liked the fact that it was very easy to simply add in buttons and bubbles to point at various aspects of a screen. If you're after free though, try Greenshot. You can quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer, annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot.

SnapCrab for Windows

Screen capture software is an absolute must for me to be able to take pictures of parts of a screen. I recently discovered Snapcrab:

It provides a variety of functions which can be executed quickly with just a click of the mouse. Images can be easily generated with minimal effort, from trimming to saving, without the need to use another application. I particularly like the fact that you can very easily resize the window you're going to snap without having retake the image, which is a real pain with the Windows snipping tool. Another powerful function is the fact that you can delay taking an image by a few seconds - useful if you have to mouseover a particular key or image for example.

Peeep.us

via www.peeep.us

Ever wondered how people can share pages that no longer exist? They may be using the Wayback Machine AKA the Internet Archive, or they may be using a tool like Peeep.us which works via a bookmarklet. Simply click on the page that you want to store, and the resource will capture it and give you a link to the page that they have stored on their site.

This is of course very useful - as long as Peeep.us is still going. If it ever fell over in the future - though I've no reason to believe that it would, but if it did, you've still lost that elusive page. If that's a worry, try Szoter instead.