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FastStone Capture is a tiny little application that allows to you take a photo of your computer screen (aka “screenshot”) and then do just about anything you’d like with that image.

FastStone Capture is quite handy for people who like to put screenshots into their Word or PowerPoint documents — especially if they wish to mark up the image or add effects to it first. The program also enables you to e-mail screenshots to friends, print them out into hard copies, crop them down to emphasize specific portions of the screenshots, or magnify them to get an even closer look at that webpage you were viewing.

Some of FastStone Capture’s main features include a screen color-picker, a screen magnifier, an “add-caption” capability, its small size (so it never slows down your computer when you use it), undo and redo options, its send-screenshot-in-an-e-mail feature, and global hotkeys that allow you to “activate the program’s capture capabilities anytime, anywhere.” (Though I have a sneaking suspicion that I could prove their boast of “anytime, anywhere” a bit misleading if I tried …)

A lifetime license will run you $19.95. To learn more, hop over to http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm.