Screen grab software for the Mac
July 11, 2008 //
I just used an application called Grab, to cut and save an image from the Apple Web site for my previous post, and thought you might benefit from learning about this wicked little piece of software.
Grab lets you take a picture of all or part of your computer screen. It’s one of the best little applications I’ve got on the Mac - I use it all the time. It saves images in TIFF format so you’ll probably want to save again as a PNG or something similar, using Seashore.
Alan Dix says 
Edwin Yip | dev of Gmail Keeper says 
Tarek Agrefa says 
Darragh Grealish says 
BArry IrishDev.com says 
Paul… Skitch blows it out of the water as you can draw arrows on the grabs and then single click upload it to their server, flickr or your own http://FTP. e.g.
http://skitch.com/robinb/xsfq/screen-grab-software-for-the-mac-paul-walsh-the-irish-opportunist
get it at http://skitch.com/
July 11th, 2008
Skitch does all Grab does and way more … including the saving to png, or jpg or whatever …
July 11th, 2008
You can also just use built in grab utility - with command + shift + 4
http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X
saves as .png to desktop - pretty handy
July 11th, 2008
Paul,
Why do you insist on linking keywords in your articles to your blog’s archive of that tag? To be frank, it’s retarded and makes you look extremely self-centered and obnoxious.
If I see the word Apple hyperlinked in an articlea bout technology, I assume it will go to Apple’s online presence.
If you are tagging your article on your blog, why aren’t you listing the tags at the bottom of each article? Your tagging serves no purpose in this case.
On a side note, your “Twitter updates” box in the sidebar has not been working for weeks, if not months.
July 11th, 2008
@Robin @Paul - ah! I remember using it once. I’ll give it another bash. I suppose it depends on what you want to use it for.
@Darragh - grab (and skitch) allow you to crab any part of the screen - you’re not restricted to windows.
@Edison - thanks for the feedback. You’re not the first person to have asked that question. Mind you, the first person wasn’t so passionate. I thought it was obvious that the hyperlinks I create are in bold.
The tags to which you refer, are automatically created by the blog software. They lead back to previous posts which have been tagged with those terms. Given that the tag cloud was installed afterwards, I don’t suppose I need them anymore. I personally don’t like tags at the top or bottom of posts as they tend to look messy.
I think you’re right about them serving no purpose, especially if other readers assume that they’re going to lead to external resources.
Also, thanks for the feedback regarding the Twitter plugin. The Twitter API instructions have a serious security breach which meant my login details had to be disabled when we found every blog reader ended up automatically signed into my twitter account. I didn’t realise it had stopped working altogether. Shame you didn’t report it when you first saw it. I’ll get my developer to fix it next week – or remove it altogether.
July 11th, 2008
Paul - whats the plugin that makes the links to the archives? I want to add it on TeamGearedUp.com
July 11th, 2008
not on a mac now - but one of the command + ?? + 4 options give you a cursor to drag/select an arbitrary portion of the screen. I’ll definetely go have a look at skitch though…
July 12th, 2008
I find Jing http://www.jingproject.com/ a very useful app that does a lot of what Scitch does but is more lightweight and is also cross platform. I use it a lot in work (I work as a web designer/developer) to screenshot design issues to share with my team. I also use it to post stuff on twitter, as it allows you to easily upload screenshots (here’s an example - http://screencast.com/t/l1LQt2Rwo75 )
July 12th, 2008