TECH: “Gadwin PrintScreen” … a must-have for your desktop

Friday, August 11, 2006

You know how I love free utilities. Here’s a screen print utility. I use it to take jpegs of screens for documentation or helping people understand what they will see. You may wish to put it in your arsenal.===

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

What is Gadwin PrintScreen?

Want to create a screenshot suitable for saving or printing? Then just hit a key on your keyboard. Oh yeah, you’ll have to download this program first.

There are several hotkey combos to choose from (PrintScreen is the default). Once you’ve chosen your favorite combo, head to the Destination tab and have the screen print out instantly, copy the capture to the clipboard, save it to a specific folder, or even send it through e-mail. You can perform full screen captures, or only capture a specific window.

Gadwin PrintScreen is an easy to use freeware utility that allows you to capture any portion of the screen, save it to a file, copy it to Windows clipboard, print it or e-mail it to a recipient of your choice.

There are also six different image formats to choose from, and each one can be resized. With all the customization capabilities, what more could you ask for?

Who needs Gadwin PrintScreen?

Screen captures can be used for many reasons. Use captured images from Gadwin PrintScreen to show off your product on the web. Enhance technical or sales documents and embed captures into presentations. Gadwin PrintScreen can help you capture and print or save computer screen data.

Why Gadwin PrintScreen?

On most Windows computers a full screen of data can be put on the clipboard by pressing the PrintScreen key. This sends whatever you see on screen to the clipboard, which you must then edit in a different graphics program to cut to the right size and image format. Here are some other reasons not to use the prefabricated PrintScreen function of Windows:

Full screen of data can be put only on the clipboard.

It is either difficult or impossible to capture some elements of a Windows screen, such as different shaped cursors.

You spend too much time making image captures.

Use Gadwin PrintScreen to save time and enhance your screen shots! Download freeware Gadwin PrintScreen now and try it out! This is the best way to learn what it can do.

System Requirement.

Gadwin PrintScreen requires Microsoft ® Windows 98/Me/2000/2003/XP, or Windows NT 4.0SP6. If you are running any of these operating systems and have a Windows-compatible mouse or pointing device, your system has already met all the requirements necessary to run Gadwin PrintScreen. A full installation of Gadwin PrintScreen requires 1 megabyte of hard drive space.

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TECH: HOMEDESK repartition strategy

Friday, August 11, 2006

In getting ready to fix my winrot problem, I’m not going to make the same mistake I made last time. I just laid it down over the old image. No, this is going to be a complete start from scratch. So, I am thinking that EVEN after I get all the data backed up, I’m going to “save my work”. Several sites seem to recommend having a partitioning strategy. They seem to favor: a CEE drive small; DEE drive about 25g for WINDOZE; an EEE drive for data; and an FFF drive for downloads and drivers. So if I carve up HOMEDESK’s 90g, it works out to be C=10g, D=25g, F=45g, and E=10g. Comments?


TECH: HOMEDESK is still in trouble. WINXP repair failed to solve the problem!

Friday, August 11, 2006

Well, I suspect that winrot will finally force me to rebuild the box. Arghhh. I just finished taking specific backups. I’m going to try one more trick. Hard wire the box into the home netwrk and see if that will allow it to limp along. Double arghhhh! I suspect that darn mcafee “security” package. That’s one thing that gets dumped in a rebuild.


TECH: wireless keyboards

Friday, August 11, 2006

I got tired of the LUGable frying my leg when I use it. There was also some mild concern about about the three dell fires that have been blogged about. So I bought a wireless keyboard. I highly recommend the MX3000 from Logitech.