Walter Hutchens’ Blog

Often I want to capture something I’ve encountered  while surfing and put it in my blog, but it’s often inconvenient to do so.

I know that I can save an image in a web page by right clicking on it, but sometimes I don’t want just an image on a web page–I want the entire web page or some large portion of it.

I know that I can also take a screen shots by hitting Ctrl-PrtSc. But that simply puts an image of the whole screen into the clipboard. To use the resulting image–particularly if I want to use only part of it–I have to put the clipboard image into another program and edit it.

A while back I found for my Tablet PCs (the NEC and the Sony U)  a free download from Microsoft: Snipping Tool for TabletPC (a "PowerToy"),
that does allow me to copy parts of web pages. I have added some "snips" to my public blog with it. However,
most of my writing is now done on a conventional laptop, not on a Tablet PC, so the
Snipping Tool isn’t that useful (it wasn’t that easy to
use, either).

To solve this problem, I did a Google search for "review screen capture tools" and found this good commentary.  After reading the review I downloaded a trial version of SnagIt, which I’m now trying.

I’ll see if the combination of SnagIt and TypePad will allow me to sprinkle my private journal with a lot of images.