Newsletter Archives

• Snagit for great screenshots

  Posted on June 10, 2024 at 02:44 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  SOFTWARE

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Snagit is the Rolls-Royce of screen-capture tools.

  If you take a lot of screen images for documents or presentations, then Snagit is the tool with the most options for both capturing an image/video and enhancing it.

  There’s a lot in Snagit, and it would be foolish to even attempt to cover it all. I’ll focus on the parts of Snagit that I’ve used almost every workday for the last 20 years.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.24.0, 2024-06-10).

  Software Image Editor, Newsletters, Screen capture, Snagit, Software Review, TechSmith

• Beyond Compare is beyond comparison

  Posted on July 18, 2022 at 02:43 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  SOFTWARE

  

  By Will Fastie

  A good utility program can greatly improve productivity. A great utility program is often indispensable.

  One capability that has always been essential, especially to developers, is file comparison. Surprisingly, few utilities existed to perform that task. I remember printing core dumps in octal from a machine that had crashed and comparing them, visually, to a dump from another, working machine. And I mean on paper.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.29.0, 2022-07-18).

  Software Comparison, Newsletters, Software Review, Utilities