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I Love The Snipping Tool

April 9, 2010 Awesome

The Windows 7 snipping tool is quite possibly the best thing on my PC, and definitely my new favourite toy. No more do I have to press three different keys to do a screenshot, then open GIMP and mess about for ten minutes trying to cut the screenshot into something usable – or even worse, use Paint. The snipping tool lets you take a shot of anything on your screen with just a click-and-drag to select the desired area. You can then highlight things or write on the image inside the snipping tool, and save it out as a PNG.

This is a snip I took of Piggynap:

And then one I took of my desktop containing my snip of Piggynap:

And a snip of the Google image results for ‘cats’:

I always see cool or funny stuff that I want to put on Piggynap, but doing a screenshot was always a massive hassle. The snipping tool is going to help me fill my site with loads more crap!

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2 Comments

  1. I want to rank you number 1 on googles on April 11, 2010 10:47 am

    Maybe I should get the snip?

  2. knute on August 21, 2010 11:37 am

    snipto will let you upload your images easily – perfect if you lvoe the snipping tool

    check it out snipto.net

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