It’s easy to take screen captures in Mac OS X. If you want to grab a graphic or take a snippet of something and email it to a friend, capturing screenshots of a desktop or a website is what you’ll need to do. There are two ways you can grab a screen capture. The first will grab the entire desktop and everything on it, including windows, folders, icons and any documents you have open. The second allows you to take a snippet of an area you select with your mouse.
Screen Capture in Mac OS X
To capture the entire desktop in OS X, simply click and hold Command+Shift and then press 3. If your volume is turned up, you should hear a camera shutter sound and an the screenshot will suddenly appear on your desktop.
The second method will probably be more preferred by most people. If you want to take a snippet of a particular area of the desktop or website, click and hold command+shift and then press the 4 key. You will see a set of cross hairs appear. Drag the cross hairs around the part you want to grab and then release. The screen capture of the precise area you highlighted will appear on your desktop.
by Dave on May 25, 2010
Gone are the days when we’d wake up and know the grass was green and the sky was blue. Gone are the days of knowing anything for certain. Thank you tech industry. You’ve taken everything we know as truth and consistency and turned it inside out. Of course I am referring to the sudden shift in the dimensions of new tech gadgetry. Let’s all take a trip back down memory lane (two years ago), to a time when it was fashionable to have the smallest gear you could find. If your phone didn’t fit into the front pocket of your tightest jeans, then you simply weren’t cool. Now, however, with the Nintendo XL and the iPad causing such a shift in the market, it would appear that “little” devices are out and large is back in charge.
The iPhone was great in its day, but now you can do so much more with the larger iPad. The graphics are larger, the battery life is better. If you happen to be an unlucky soul that touches an iPad, you will only use you iTouch or iPhone with the deepest of sorrow and longing. Your dreams will be haunted with images of the iPad. You will resist as long as you can, turning away from the commercials and avoiding those around the water cooler that rave about the apps, about the crisp display and the lightning fast A4 processor.
- Nintendo XL and DS Size Comparison
And the Nintendo DS XL. It wasn’t enough that Nintendo created the DS, which is overtaking the PS2 as being the most sold gaming device in the history of all gaming devices. They had to create the XL. Because larger is better now. Big is in, small is out. Let this be a warning to you all that this isn’t the end, either. In a couple of years I predict you will see a flood of new tech devices on the market. Not small ones, not large ones, rather a entirely new category called ‘Medium Devices.”
So what do you do? Spend the money ? If you’re anything like me, of course you do.
