How To Take a Screen Shot

the happy affiliate — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:10:51 +0000

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. It is easier to show someone how something is done with a screen shot, rather than describing it. You can take a screen shot of your entire monitor, or just an active window.
There is also print screen software that will let you easily take screen shots of any part of your screen. See the link at the bottom, or take a look in the Tools Section

How to do a screen shot of the entire screen?

Press

- Windows will capture the entire screen or (or screens if you have multiple monitors) and copies it to the clipboard.

Locating the Print Screen button:

Look for this group of keys in the upper right of your keyboard. Note: you may have to press the Function Lock key (F Lock or Fn) on some multimedia and laptop keyboards for the key to function as PrtScn

How to do a screen shot from a single window:

Hold

and press

Windows will save the currently active window to the clipboard

Now you have the image saved on the clipboard. Go to what ever program you use for editing your images and past the image:

Hold

and press

Windows will past your screen shot into what ever document or image you are currently editing.

*Tips

There are some good free print screen software that make screen shots easier:
- I use this one : MWSnap Screen Capture Utility. It works well.

I find the GIF and PNG format is better when saving screen shots of program windows. JPEG is better with pictures, if you screen shot has text in it, it may appear blurry.

How To Download Videos From YouTube

the happy affiliate — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:55:26 +0000

If you are using windows movie maker to produce your own videos, or complimation from other videos, you will need to download the actual video in .wmv format to your hard drive.

Below are 2 of the best free resources for doing this.

Media Converter is a firefox plug in that works very well. The free version is limited to 5 downloads per day. You simply view the video you want, and click the button on the tool bar to down load it to your harddrive.

If you run out of your 5 free downloads, you can go to Zamzar.com Copy the URL of the video you want, paste it on zamar.com and the converted video will be emailed to you.

Please feel free to contribute if you have any other suggestions or useful resources.

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