Q&A: Taking Screenshots the Way I Want to Take Them

Posted in: Q & A

Question: Hello Erin. I use the “Print Screen” key on my keyboard regularly to take a snapshot of what’s on my monitor - I often send these images via e-mail to friends and employees.

Lately I’m finding it annoying that my entire screen is always captured because sometimes I only want a part of the screen to be captured, something like a dialog box or error message.

Is there a way to have more control over my images when I use Print Screen? Thanks.

Answer: You bet. And it’s easy.

As you know, pressing the Print Screen button on your keyboard takes captures an image of your entire screen.

If you hold down the Alt key the next time you press Print Screen, the active window (the window on your screen that has focus) will be copied to your clipboard, ready for you to paste into whatever program you’d like. Pretty easy, eh?

Liberate Your Power Strips

Posted in: Gadgets

Liberate your power strips with the Power Strip Liberator and Power Strip Liberator Plus.

Essentially, the Power Strip Liberator helps you to get full use of your power strips and UPS outlets by allowing you to plug those big bulky power adapters into their cables … and plug those cables into the previously unusable outlets. The Power Strip Liberator Plus is the same gadget, but it offers an additional pass-through plug, providing you with twice as many outlets.

At a whopping $2.59 each, the Power Strip Liberators are handy little gadgets to have around. If you’re interested, you can purchase the standard Liberator at http://tinyurl.com/2rg5qh and the Liberator Plus at http://tinyurl.com/24rdt2.