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By an anonymous user on Mar. 15, 2008

On the mac, you have a built in screen capture. (Cmd + Shift + 3 or 4, depending on need). You can also drop the image directly onto the clipboard.

If you are looking for browser plugins, you can have a few available for Mozilla, but I haven't used those.

By an anonymous user on Mar. 15, 2008

google it

By Janet Ku on Mar. 16, 2008

Try Zscreen - its freeware so you wont have access to the source code, but it does the trick

By msauter on Mar. 23, 2008

Greenshot (http://greenshot.sourceforge.net) has all you need - including a simple built-in image editor.

By an anonymous user on Apr. 24, 2008

If you are using Vista:

C:\Windows\System32\SnippingTool.exe

By OSAf W on May. 06, 2008

Well though not an open source option but Snippy till date has been the best, never had to look for another. Its strange not many people know about it, but the reason could be the fact that it is very small, but does the job so perfectly. I am sure you would find using Snippy a breeze!...

Its a single exe, and does not need to be installed. Just run and snip.

http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

By an anonymous user on Jun. 11, 2008

I made my own if you're interested. It's not professional - kind of "indie software development" really, but you might find it useful.

Screenshot:

http://gir.slampt.net/~gavin/asc-v104.jpg

Installer:

http://gir.slampt.net/~gavin/screen/download/v104/AutoScreenCaptureSetup...

By Jimmy Hopkin on Jun. 14, 2008

The firefox plugin Screengrab is quite useful if you want to take screenshots of browser windows. It will not take screenshots of other items on your desktop, but may be useful to look at if you are mainly interested in the browser.

By an anonymous user on Jul. 03, 2008

My fav is MW Snap. Great, simple, free and supports full screen, fixed areas or manual grab. Also saves to many formats too. Try it!

I have promoted it through my company and they love it too!

By John McInsky on Jul. 03, 2008

Why does everyone get confused about the simplest things? you dont need a special program to grab ascreen image - just write a simple java program:

final Robot robot = new Robot();

final Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();

final Dimension dimension = toolkit.getScreenSize();

final Rectangle r = new Rectangle(dimension);

final Image img = robot.createScreenCapture(r);

By an anonymous user on Jul. 09, 2008

Joh, what a douchebag.

By an anonymous user on Aug. 14, 2008

There's an even easier way...

Control/prt scr adds a screenshot to your clipboard (Win XP)

By an anonymous user on Aug. 17, 2008

I just tried greenshot loaded as a portable app, and it's wonderful. See the link in post above.

Regards,

Volition

By an anonymous user on Aug. 19, 2008

I lik Wisdom-soft's screen Hunter 5.0. It's free and collects screen shots in bmp, jpg and gif.

It works on MS OS (XP and Vista).

Easy to use and free makes it a value.

By an anonymous user on Aug. 28, 2008

I'm looking for the same thing and when reading through the suggestions it is apparent some did not understand the question.

Just because a tool is free does not

mean that it is open source, which was specifically requested by the poster.

The built in OS functions; Control/prt scr (Win) and Cmd + Shift + 3 or 4 (Mac) do not offer Snagit like functionality:

What was asked for...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/capturedit/

http://greenshot.sourceforge.net/ --> requires .NET framework

By molin show on Aug. 28, 2008

google code?

By an anonymous user on Dec. 29, 2008

http://autoscreen.sourceforge.net/

By Jim R on Jan. 18, 2009

Greenshot works fine, but so far all the free or open source applications mentioned in this thread lacks one important feature: auto scroll, this is the only reason I still use commerical tools, since the free/os tool can not catpure the entire window content if a scroll bar is present.

By Peter Brook on Jan. 18, 2009

On the mac, you can use paparazzi. It is not open source, but it is free. It is mainly for grabbing the entire window. On the PC, you can use SnagIT - Not open source either....