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<h6>Extend Mac OS X's Screenshots</h6>
<p><p>Mac OS X has a variety of built in screenshot methods. Here's a look at a few that offer more versatility than the basic full-screen capture (Command-Shift-3):</p>
<p>ΓÇó Press Command-Shift-4 and you'll get a crosshair cursor with which you can drag to select and capture a certain area of the screen.</p>
<p>ΓÇó Press Command-Shift-4-Space to select the entire window that the cursor is over, clicking on the window will then capture it. The resulting screenshot will even get a nice drop shadow.</p>
<p>ΓÇó Hold down the Space bar after dragging out a selection window to move your selection rectangle around on the screen.</p>
<p>ΓÇó Hold down Shift after dragging out a selection to constrain the selection in either horizontal or vertical orientation, depending on the direction of your drag.</p>
<p>ΓÇó Hold down Option after dragging out a selection to expand the selection window around a center point.</p></p>
<a href="/article/5899"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5899', 'show')">Lessons from Ten Years of TidBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5899" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5899">With this issue of TidBITS, we're marking our 10th anniversary of continuous Internet publication. We've watched as Apple's fortunes have waxed and waned and waxed again, as software products have come and gone, and as Macs have become faster, smaller, and more colorful</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 17 Apr 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5884"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5884', 'show')">TidBITS Again Available in Spanish</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5884" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5884">TidBITS Again Available in Spanish -- We're extremely happy to report that you can once again read TidBITS in Spanish each week! Our thanks go out to Jose Felix Navarro and the group of dedicated Macintosh users in Seville, Spain, who have restarted the volunteer translation team</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Apr 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5887"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5887', 'show')">Poll Preview: A People Divided</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5887" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5887">Poll Preview: A People Divided -- We at TidBITS prefer using Macs to anything else, but the reality of the computer industry is that Macintosh users are in the minority and are likely to remain so</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Apr 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5888"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5888', 'show')">Poll Results: System Shiftin'</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5888" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5888">Poll Results: System Shiftin' -- Last week's poll drew responses from almost 2,700 TidBITS readers, and despite the tenacity with which people hold on to old applications (as revealed in a previous poll), most people are using one of the two most recently released versions of the Mac OS</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Apr 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5890"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5890', 'show')">How to Buy a PC (And Retain Your Sanity)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5890" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5890">It's easy for Mac users to lose sight of what the rest of the computing industry goes through when dealing with hardware. Macs are extremely coherent - there's only one vendor, there aren't many variables to consider, and pricing tends not to vary widely from reseller to reseller</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Apr 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5874" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5874">April Fools Gotchas -- The mail has been thick over the weekend in response to our traditional April Fools issue (TidBITS-524), and all we can say is, "No mas!" That, and we'd like to apologize to all the people who were suckered by the articles in that issue, especially the one reporting on the internal Microsoft memo that outlined a plan to sell the company's Macintosh business unit to Apple as a concession to the Justice Department (special thanks to Omar Shahine, the Microsoft Outlook Express program manager, for providing the quotes that lent that extra touch of verisimilitude to the article)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Apr 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5876" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5876">digital.forest Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're happy to welcome our latest long-term sponsor, the Macintosh-savvy Internet hosting company digital.forest. Located in the Seattle area, digital.forest has been in business since 1994 providing Mac-based Web hosting, FileMaker Pro database hosting, and server co-location services to companies around the world</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Apr 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5877"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5877', 'show')">Poll Preview: System Shiftin'</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5877" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5877">Poll Preview: System Shiftin' -- Many people expect Apple to release a minor update to Mac OS 9.0 in the near future, which provides all the excuse we need to ask a simple question basic to all Macintosh owners: What version of the Mac OS do you use on your primary Macintosh? If you're among the folks not running the Mac OS on your main Mac, you'll have to sit this one out, and if you have several Macs that you consider "primary" (a desktop Mac and a PowerBook, for instance) you'll need to choose one as more "primary" than the others</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Apr 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5878" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5878">Outlook Express 5.0.2 Correction -- Last week we briefly noted the changes in Outlook Express 5.0.2 along with the review of Internet Explorer 5.0. Unfortunately, our information came from pages on Microsoft's Web site that, it turns out, were just plain wrong with regard to the progress window</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Apr 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5879" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5879">Our polls, like many others on the Web and in the real world, are unscientific because we don't identify the population of people we want survey, randomly survey a sufficiently large subset of that population, or use a polling method that's designed to eliminate bias</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Apr 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5880"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5880', 'show')">TidBITS Talk Hot Topics: Internet Explorer 5.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5880" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5880">Last week's article on Internet Explorer spawned numerous discussions in TidBITS Talk that explored different aspects of the new release and the future of the Web browser market in general.Many people wrote in with their experiences with Internet Explorer 5.0, expressing different opinions about the new look of the interface and commenting on the changes they liked or disliked</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Apr 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5866"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5866', 'show')">Canvas 7.0.1 Fixes Bugs, Improves HTML Export</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5866" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5866">Canvas 7.0.1 Fixes Bugs, Improves HTML Export -- Deneba Software has released Canvas 7.0.1, a free update to the company's Swiss Army knife graphics program (see Matt Neuburg's "Canvas 7 - Not Quite Heaven" in TidBITS-517 for a full review)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5869"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5869', 'show')">Poll Results: Clear as Mud</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5869" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5869">Poll Results: Clear as Mud -- The 1,600 responses to our poll asking about your common responses to Web pages that display badly offer some valuable lessons.If you're a Web page designer, you have a large vested interest in making your pages display correctly, since 71 percent of the people participating in the poll said that going to another page or site was a common response, whereas only 32 percent said they'd try to ignore the problem and 4 percent said they would futz with the HTML to make the page display</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Mar 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5870" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5870">Poll Preview: Browser Brouhaha -- This week's release of Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Mac (see review below) and Netscape's recent announcement that the Netscape 6 (possibly not for the Mac, to judge from comments on TidBITS Talk) would be available in beta within a month raises that perennial question: Which Macintosh Web browsers do you use on a regular basis? We'll be especially curious to compare the results of this poll to our Web logs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5872"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5872', 'show')">Internet Explorer 5.0 Redisplays the Web</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5872" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5872">Evaluating the desirability of an upgrade to a major piece of software is tricky. As we've seen in a recent TidBITS poll, many people stick with older software because it meets their needs, works better on older Macs, doesn't require learning new ways of working, and doesn't cost anything</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Mar 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5853" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5853">ACI Buys StarNine Technologies -- ACI US, makers of the high-end 4D relational database, have purchased StarNine Technologies, makers of the WebSTAR Server Suite and ListSTAR, from Platinum Equity Holdings</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5854"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5854', 'show')">Connectix Ships Virtual PC with Linux</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5854" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5854">Connectix Ships Virtual PC with Linux -- Connectix has shipped a version of its Virtual PC Pentium emulation product bundled with a pre-installed copy of Red Hat Linux</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5857"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5857', 'show')">Poll Preview: Clear as Mud</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5857" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5857">Poll Preview: Clear as Mud -- The origins of HTML were focused on structure over layout, but as the Web became increasingly commercial the look of a Web page became ever more important</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5842"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5842', 'show')">Poll Results: Long in the Tooth</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5842" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5842">Last week's poll asking about your oldest regularly used program proved fascinating in a number of ways, not the least of which was in the enthusiasm it generated on TidBITS Talk, where we heard about the many old programs still in regular use throughout the Macintosh world</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 13 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5830"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5830', 'show')">Communicator 4.72 Fixes Handful of Bugs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5830" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5830">Communicator 4.72 Fixes Handful of Bugs -- Netscape Communications has released Netscape Communicator 4.72, the latest version of its integrated Internet client and HTML authoring application</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Mar 2000</div></div>
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