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FireShot Does Browser Screencaps One Better
Install the add-on and you're given FireShot creates a tiny menu on your navigation toolbar that gives quick access to full-page and visible area capture functions. It does a great job at rendering pages, even those with Flash animations. Support for saving as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and BMP is built-in, as well as exporting to just about any editor.
What really sets FireShot apart, though, is the integrated upload feature. Select it, and you can resize your image on-the-fly and post it to FireShot's free image hosting repository with minimal effort. If there's one feature that helps sell a piece of software to us, it's how much time and effort we can save by using. FireShot makes putting browser screencap online so easy we almost feel lazy doing it. Almost.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Fred Thompson said 11:37PM on 7-01-2008
I use FireShot and prefer it to the other screen grabbers for Firefox. The full-sized Amazon preview pages won't capture properly, though. The intermediate covers can be captured with the Greasemonkey script "AmazonBookCover". Flash-based stuff is just a lot harder to capture.
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Freezer said 11:45PM on 7-01-2008
Sounds like a lot of nifty features, but nothing that's going to make me switch away from Screengrab! (http://www.screengrab.org/)
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coffeemonk said 8:30PM on 7-02-2008
Sounds like a great plugin, but it's currently Windows only. Didn't see that mentioned in your post or tagged that way, so thought you might want to point that out.
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Lee Mathews said 8:34PM on 7-02-2008
Well spotted, that's why we love our readers! Take note, everyone!
Prof. Michael Stoll said 8:35PM on 7-02-2008
... if you're into macintosh, Page Saver Basic & Pro could be your choice.
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Lee Mathews said 8:35PM on 7-02-2008
Thanks for the tip - I don't have a Mac, or emulate one, so I appreciate the info!
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