Tom Lawrence: the snip tool in windows 7 is my favorite thing ever.

inthefade:

Ok, my favorite thing today.

I really like Windows 7. I’m only using it on the laptop for now (running x86), where I* replaced Vista. I want to put it on the desktop with the 64 bit version but that requires a clean install and I’m just not up to that. I hate doing clean installs. They freak me out.

So I’ll play around with it on the laptop for now. But I like it fine thus far.

*^{Todd replaced my Vista. It was sort of a “Surprise OS!” because I was in a bad mood all day and being all grumpy and crap and he figured that would make me happy, which it did, but didn’t as make me happy as the fact that he wanted so much to make me happy did. Understand? Good.}

Just like CMD+shift+4 is for mac folks, the snip tool is the most important thing to create content on tumblr.

The Snipping Tool has actually been around since Windows XP Tablet Edition, and it’s not changed since. It’s nice how you can annotate and highlight the captured area and from there save it to your desktop but it still lacks a keyboard shortcut (but you can always right-click the program and create a Ctrl+Alt+Whatever shortcut for it) but I prefer Mac OS X’s Cmd-Shift-4 any day.

I like how pressing space whilst in Cmd-Shift-4 and hovering the cursor over a window allows you to capture a single window and also handle any transparencies the window has (such as Dashboard widgets) unlike Windows’s Alt+PrintScreen.

I can’t believe I just typed a two paragraph debate on screen grabbing keyboard shortcuts. I’ll go back to my little world now.