Dear intarwebs,

Does anybody know a quick and simple application for Windows that will quickly let me take a screenshot and crop it quickly? (I already have a good one for Mac that works well). It needs to be able to stay in my taskbar without consuming a lot of memory! (I have a crappy laptop, and running a VM and Firefox already drain my limited RAM)

I oftentimes see little UI gems on random sites I'd like to start clipping and storing for future reference, but it becomes such a hassle for me to use Photoshop to do this.

Bonus points if it'll auto-post to Flickr.

Posted by roy on March 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM in Ramblings | 12 Comments

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Max (guest)

Comment posted on March 13th, 2009 at 10:19 AM
I use Meazure from C-Thing software. Allows to select the screenshot region visually = cropping, and has other nice features integrated too. No posting on Flickr though ;.)
Comment posted on March 12th, 2009 at 11:40 PM
onenote screen clipper!

or vista snip tool
Comment posted on March 12th, 2009 at 07:43 AM
what do you use for the mac?
Comment posted on March 15th, 2009 at 04:44 PM
use the Grab application (you can search for it through the Mac HD). also, since I use it so much, I have in my dock

Ilan (guest)

Comment posted on March 11th, 2009 at 03:43 AM
I've had good experiences with Jing.
Comment posted on March 10th, 2009 at 06:22 PM
I use Snag It (Techsmith) at work, dunno if its free on the intarwebz though.
Comment posted on March 11th, 2009 at 03:13 PM
+1 I'm a Snag It person.

Good integration in ppt too....

crb (guest)

Comment posted on March 10th, 2009 at 01:02 PM
Cropper!

http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx

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Comment posted on March 10th, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Why not just use <ctrl><alt><Print Screen> then paste it into MS Paint and crop from there?
Comment posted on March 10th, 2009 at 02:06 PM
i am lazy
Comment posted on March 10th, 2009 at 12:37 PM
www.irfanview.com

pc1oad1etter (guest)

Comment posted on March 10th, 2009 at 11:57 AM
I've been loving Jing. Very quickly take screenshots (or screencasts), crop, annotate, save to a file or post to a web site.

Haven't used it with flickr but apparently you can (http://blog.jingproject.com/2007/11/in_an_effort_to_increase.html).

I use it on a mac and.. it appears to take around 65MB of RAM. :-/
http://www.jingproject.com/