SFist: Gotta Catch 'em All

Patrick Ledwith

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:20:37 -0800

IrfanView had a time delay screen capture feature, which is pretty nifty for doing this in a semi-automated way. One thought, however... not all vehicles appear, so screenshots are not necessarily representative of what's going on. You really need to look out the window to confirm the accuracy. I rely on the 6, and dozens and dozens and dozens of times I have watched one roll by my front door, NextMuni.com none the wiser. I once thought "oh, maybe it's Firefox acting funky" so I tried IE, then I thought "oh, maybe it's just my PC" so I tried it on a Mac... nope, lots of buses in service simply don't show up.

jacobe

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:47:09 -0800

Nifty little app for doing advanced screen shots and movies and whatnot is Snapz ProX from Ambrosia Software. ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox I've been using it for years... it's good stuff!

bornandraised

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:45:40 -0800

omg that was me! thank you so much!

cb

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:40:26 -0800

subtle (and not-so-subtle) digs at PCs will never go out of style! how clever!

HM

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:09:29 -0800

Nothing personal, MM... I'm just looking out for you ;-) Quoth the Flava: "... Yo, why don't you just back up from the TV, read a book or som'in. Read about yourself, learn your culture, you know what I'm sayin'?"

MattyMatt

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:09:59 -0800

I'm hereby deducting twelve points from HM.

HM

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:55:55 -0800

Giddy about screengrabs?! Please get a life. Are you going to donating your organs to charity? Give tours at the zoo. Help the soup kitchen at Glide? Be a big brother? Join friends of the urban forest? No. You are going to carry a cameraphone and take pictures on the Muni, OR stare at your computer until you see double then take a snapshot to share with your buddies. I guess the cameraphone does get you out in the community... Oy.

Leanne

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:46:44 -0800

The new Macs also have an application called Grab in the Utilities folder, which is what I usually resort to because I can never remember the quick key combo.

MattyMatt

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:34:20 -0800

The "Pause Break" button has the same function as "Scroll Lock": pressing them causes a porch light to flicker on and off at a house in rural Montana.

Seamus Furr

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:27:57 -0800

Close, Slappy. You just Alt-Print Screen, no need to hold Ctrl. Ironically, Print Screen will not print the screen, leaving you the next step of opening some program that was not really built for the task of printing the screen. Now somebody tell be what the "Pause Break" key does.

SlappyFrog

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:16:14 -0800

Ctrl-Alt-Print Screen will capture the active window to the clipboard, you then paste to another application (Paint, Word, Excel, whatever). Print screen by itself will capture everything on the monitor, not just the active window, then paste in to another application.