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I was just following the directions from the right-click tray menu.

dont use the tray menu to take screenshots -- consider the tray menu just a reminder of your hotkeys.
you can find hotkey configuration in the preferences dialog.

the list view is not working in 4.0.3. selecting list view changes to detail view

can you elaborate a little bit or take a screenshot (under Capture menu you can take a screenshot of SC itself)?

Somewhere in X versions, by now with the new V4.5 I am having trouble with the keyboard grabs starting with control-printscreen to grab an active window. 1. First of all, as of right now, that sequence doesn't seem to do anything at all. But even worse, in the spreadsheet programs, it seems to activate some command in there, meaning you have a hot-key "fight". Any ideas?

Check the SC hotkey configuration and make sure ctrl+prtscr is set to do what you think it is.  If so, it sounds like your other spreadsheet program is taking it over.

2. As more of a "next feature enhancement", I am unable to get screen grabs of things like drop down menus because to go over and left click on SC "steals focus" so then the drop down window goes away. Examples are in the office programs, but likely in other places such as Yahoo Mail.

why are you trying to "go over and left click on SC" instead of just hitting the PrtScr hotkey to capture the screen?

No one else wants to participate in this thread?  I hate when we don't have more people joining in these discussions..

Surely we have some long time lurkers on the forum who like cooking and feel like making their first post?

This is a good question.

The answer is: sort of.

Right now, you can't set up a custom hotkey in screenshot captor itself to tell it to take a screenshot and then print it.. Though allowing these kinds of custom hotkeys is something I do plan on adding.

However, what you can so is go to the "Post-Capture Options" tab and check the box labeled "Auto print" to have it automatically print every screenshot, and then on the "Interface Options" tab choose "After Capture Show: Stay Minimized".  With those settings, when you take a screenshot it will automatically be printed while the program will stay out of your way in the system tray.

In conjunction with my Screenshot Captor screenshot taking tool, I frequently get asked for recommendations concerning OCR software to scan an image and recognize text.

Today, our friends over at FreewareGenius have a nice roundup of free OCR tools:

http://www.freewaregenius...arison-of-free-ocr-tools/


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See also: http://www.techsupportale...est-free-ocr-software.htm

You need .zip on the end of your portable URL.

thx, fixed link.

[Screenshot Captor 4.5.0 beta:]

I'm uploading a beta here with just a few new options, but I'd appreciate any bug reports.

Screenshot Captor 4.5.0 beta:

• Setup version
• Portable zip

v4.5.0 - June 17, 2013

• [Feature] Post-capture dialog now has a field where you can specify an optional quick custom filename.
• [MinorFeature] New option to open windows explorer file browser to location of SaveAs image after a SaveAs.
• [MinorFeature] New option to not uniquify filenames when launching the SaveAs dialog.
• [MinorFeature] The file template field now has some suggestions in a drop down combo box.
• [BugFix] Minor UI fixes.
• [BugFix] Attempting to fix brief appearance of Screenshot Captor taskbar button at windows startup.

So the main thing to check is that the post-capture dialog now let's you overide the custom filename, and also (and I recognize this is more of a pain to test) I'm trying to fix a bug where on windows startup, Screenshot Captor would display a phantom taskbar button.

ha!!! nice find xtabber.  joke works best if you are familiar with how famous that original "nobody knows your a dog" cartoon was.

Btw as simple as this little script is -- it's something I still use every day.

This would be easy to do using an autohotkey script to copy the area under the cursor to clipboard and then open a web page related to it.

I wrote a little AHK script a while ago called SelectoSurf which I use for similar purposes, you'd just have to modify it to open a web page that does a map search instead of a web search.

Or you could use Find and Run Robot to do the same thing -- trigger on a hotkey, copy highlighted text under cursor to clipboard, and then open a web page searching for that text.

The first step however is to find yourself a mapping website where you can search for locations on a uk map, and which returns the results you want.  Then post on this thread that url with the search part.

For example. you might say that the web page you want opened is:

[copy or print]
http://maps.google.co.uk/m?gbv=1&ie=UTF-8&oi=nojs&q=LOCATIONHERE

Thanks for sharing that article wraith, that's a great find.

I'm afraid the DirectX capture addon for SC is on hold while i try to work with original code author to improve it.

[and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes]

From an article today:

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft (MSFT) and other software or Internet security companies have been aware that this type of early alert allowed the U.S. to exploit vulnerabilities in software sold to foreign governments, according to two U.S. officials.

http://www.bloomberg.com/...h-thousands-of-firms.html

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Maybe start with this summary on TechDirt: http://www.techdirt.com/a...ore-it-patches-them.shtml

from TechDirt

It's depressing to think that that far into the future some of humanity has doggedly held on to imperial measurements

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

Where do we purchase!

Beautiful.  I love seeing new posts on this thread. 

This would be a good time to recommend a great movie about life in a surveillance state:

"The Lives of Others"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/
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Even in my own peer groups I've noticed a much greater reluctance to engage in certain wordplay and widespread self-censoring of certain words or phrases precisely because there's concern about something said being taken out of context.

I may be contradicting my earlier post but i think you have a great point here, and it's really worse than you describe.

I have reasonable confidence that someone overhearing my conversations/emails/irc chats would ultimately conclude, after careful analysis, that i was not involved in anything nefarious.

Nevertheless, I have found myself often over the last decade, keenly aware that online conversations i participate in and people i talk to (especially if they are outside the US), are very likely being scanned for keywords or geographic patterns, and that an AUTOMATED system that found too many "flags" could very easily trigger and push me onto some list that would make life more *inconvenient* for me (additional airport screening, etc.) -- and that could easily lead to self censoring.

Should anyone come forward in support of PRISM

Well this may surprise many of you but i'm not terribly troubled by the abstract *concept* of government scanning phone call "metadata" or website traffic patterns, etc.  Just as i don't get too concerned about the increased use of security cameras.

It's something i've (along with many people) long assumed they do (along with logging every actual piece of content that they can do without court approval, like irc conversations, forum posts, etc.), so there's nothing here being exposed that i didn't already assume they do and much worse.

I do agree that this kind of thing can have a stifling effect, I just put it low on my list of concerns about the world -- at least in the ABSTRACT.

However, I do have some outrage about this stuff -- but it's not about the abstract idea of doing this kind of thing -- it's about the culture of over-classifying all of this kind of stuff as top secret and then outright lying to the populace and hiding behind the secrecy to avoid proper oversight, supervision, and budget cost issues, when there are no operational reasons for this stuff not to be acknowledged.

If our government wants to record every phone call ever made, they need to make that case to the population, tell us how much it costs so we can assess the cost/benefits, have some very substantial oversight, and convince us that it's doing more good than harm and not being abused.

But it's just too tempting for them to classify something as top secret and then be able to hide the details, the cost, the oversight, the criticisms.  And that's what I find most troubling.

I also think that it increasing leads to a kind of schizophrenic existence, where the difference between what we say we do, and what we really do, grows further and further apart -- and that can't be good.

Just my 2 cents.

ps.
For those who *are* outraged about the abstract concept of spying/tracking of citizen data -- i will say in your defense that there is a long and not-so-distant history of such surveillance systems being abused by those in power, so it's understandable if you are concerned that these abilities would be abused.

Welcome to the site SSE,
I'd be interested in hearing more about the process of encrypting a file to a user.  It seems like you must be doing some kind of public key encryption thing, but i don't see where you are exchanging keys between users.

Thanks for the report rkiggen, seems i simply need to add an additional option to set the color in "memo" mode, which is the mode that you are looking at there.  I hope to have an update this week.

[v2.19.01 - June 12, 2013]

Minor update:
v2.19.01 - June 12, 2013

• [BugFix] The "Print Last Clip" menu item was sometimes printing an incorrect clip instead of the last one captured.
• [BugFix] The Modify Format dialog sometimes appeared behind main window and was hidden by it.
• [MinorFeature] The Modify Format dialog now can add a sequence of letters (A,B,C) as well as numbers, to lists.

It's nice to see there are some really nice people around.

The other lesson of course, for all of us, is to BE that nice person.  Sometimes the smallest gesture to help a stranger can be very meaningful to them.

Glad to hear it was useful!