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Mac Switcher: Three ways to take screenshots

The word on the street these days is that switching to a Mac will give you a bunch of new stuff - all sorts of fun software to play with, a CEO with his own Reality Distortion Field™ and a small, rabid cult following that we don't necessarily recommend you join up with. One thing you lose, however, is that Print Screen key; setting up a Mac desktop or notebook will reveal that the key is nowhere to be found, apparently leaving us out in the cold when it comes to capturing that golden moment on your display.

Fortunately, this isn't the case. In fact, Apple built two great screenshot tools into the Mac OS X software (in other words: they're free, and if you're on a fairly recent Mac, you already have them installed). One is a dedicated app, while another is a handy set of universal keyboard shortcuts that are always right at your service.

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Filed under: Design, Utilities, Windows, Productivity

Quickly compress PNG images

Crush!If you work with images often, you may or may not be familiar with pngcrush, an open source utility that pushes PNG image compression to its limits. Excellent though it may be, pngcrush works on the command line, and if you're used to working in GUIs, that might slow you down. Over at his blog, though, Neil Turner shows how you can set up a "Crush" action on your Windows context menu for instant PNG-crushing action. It's very straightforward and, if you're in the habit of publishing big PNGs, very handy.

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

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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