Screen shots 
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I learned something new about taking screen shots of the desktop in OS X the other day. I already knew that pressing Shift+Command+3 gave you a shot of the entire screen and that pressing Shift+Command+4 gave you a cross-hair mouse cursor so you could drag a rectangle around the area you wanted to grab.
What I didn’t know is what would happen if your pressed Shift+Command+4 and then, when the mouse cursor had changed to a cross-hair, pressed the spacebar - doing this changes the mouse cursor to a camera and you can then hover over which element of the screen you want snapped, whether it be an application window, the menu bar or an icon on the desktop or dock.
Thanks to the Apple Pro Tip of the week, we now know that pressing Shift+Command+Control+3 (or 4) will place the captured image on the clipboard rather than the desktop, so you can paste directly into Photoshop etc.
#1 Wayne Smallman said:
Under OS9, there used to be more options for screen shots, but I’ve forgotten them, now.
I’m still amazed by the fact that there is not anything even as remotely able on Windows XP…
on 1 March ‘05 
#2 Wayne Smallman said:
“I moved to Macs just over a year ago straight to OS X so I never got to use OS 9 - I’ve never had to start Classic up either.”
I’ve remembered one of the other screen capture options; you could take a snapshot of a single open window from any application.
That was one of the better options.
I’m not sure if it’s still there in OS X, given how many of the key strokes had been messed around with.
You didn’t miss much by not seeing OS9 .. it was a dog on smack!
Bad, doesn’t really quite cover it.
Now, for stability, OS8.5 / 8.6 were legendary. I do miss that. OS X has taken us back to that level of stability and then some…
on 1 March ‘05
#4 Wayne Smallman said:
Have you played around with Delicious Library? Go to: http://www.delicious-monster.com/
Very nice library for your stuff…
on 5 March ‘05
#5 James Lovell said:
Want another tip? Just hold down the shift key whilst pressing any of the exposé keys or minimising features (just anything Jobs shows off in slo mo on the keynotes) and it will do it slowly as in slomow mode.
A note for holding down cmd + shift + 4 + space is that it takes the picture of whatever (probably the window) without Quartz rendering. This means square windows with no rounded edges and no proper shadows.
There are some games included with the version of emacs on terminal but I’ve currently forgotten how to get at them :(.
on 16 March ‘05
#6 Timmargh said:
I knew holding down Shift slowed down minimising (and restoring) a window, but I didn’t realise it worked elsewhere - cheers for that.
;^)
on 16 March ‘05
#7 tugger said:
Actually OS8.5 had a facility similar to this, which has made me try this.. hold the shift key down, then press F9 F10 and F11 in quick succession. Pointless but smooth, not unlike myself…
on 30 March ‘05
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