March 3rd, 2008
My 10 favorite Windows programs of all time
SnagIt (TechSmith)
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Price: $40; discounts for multiple licenses
System requirements: Windows 98 or later
If you can see it on the screen, you can snap a picture of it with SnagIt. I’ve been using this software for more than six years, and I still occasionally discover new capabilities that I never knew existed.
I captured, cropped, and edited all the screen shots for this article with SnagIt 8. You can use the program to create simple screencasts, or capture the entire content of a web page, even if the page requires scrolling. You can save output in just about any graphics format known (including PDF), and you can convert files from any graphics format to any graphics format, one at a time or as a batch.
After you capture a screen shot, you can preview it and manipulate it with some easy to use editing tools and add special effects such as the torn and faded edges you see in some screens in this gallery. The preview window is actually an alternate view of SnagIt Editor, a standalone program that does just about everything you might want in an image editing package.
For anyone who uses Windows and writes or blogs about technology, this is a must-have tool.
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