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  • The list of best screen capture tools for Ubuntu and Windows

    The list of best screen capture tools for Ubuntu and Windows

    It’s hard to imagine life without screen capture tools especially if you are into writing manuals and tutorials. Whether you wish to capture a small section of your device or a video for your tutorial, you need to utilize screen capture tools which can help you in this process. The screencasts and screenshots can be used for demonstration purposes while offering a preview of a new software to the users. There are several screen capturing apps for Windows and Ubuntu. These can be downloaded easily and can be used right away for recording purposes. Here is a list of finest apps that are available for screen capturing for Windows and Ubuntu (Linux).

    Windows

    ShareX

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    This is one of the most recommended, Open Source, Screen Capture tool that boasts all the advanced features that a premium package would offer at a hefty price. It has everything to offer from a single screen grab to a more advanced ‘scrolling window’ capture and gif animated screen recording.

    ShareX is mainly advertised as a tool for capturing and uploading screenshots, which can be coined as an advanced replacement of ‘GreenShot‘ that lack many essential features of ShareX, including screen recorder. That’s understandable because it offers some very unique capturing options. ShareX supports uploading to services like TinyPic, Imgur, Flickr, Photobucket, Pastebin, Dropbox, SendSpace, and many more. Encountering an issue related to downtime while using ShareX is practically unrealistic because of how many options are offered. In most cases this free tool is all you need for your personal and professional needs. It is highly recommended by DigitFreak.

    Download it at $0 from Github

    Greenshot

    Greenshot best sceenshot tool for windows

    Greenshot is very similar to ShareX, and one of the smallest application on this list. The executable file required to install this application was less than 2MB. Don’t be deceived by it’s a small package, it still packs advanced features and tools that you’d find on ShareX with few exclusions; You can carry out basic actions with very small resource footprint. Greenshot can be configured to upload your images to ‘Imgur,’ which can be later used to host your screenshots for online sharing.

    Greenshot is inferior in terms of features and tools compared to ShareX; it lacks the scrolling window capture, video recording and ability to customize various image/file hosting websites to store your images.

    Download GreenShot

    Screenshot Captor

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    Screenshot Captor is the most advanced OpenSource tool you’ll find for Windows powered PC (As far as we know). It has everything you’d need to capture a screenshot, or record the video instructions. It has all the features that you’d find on ShareX with additional advanced tools. Great special effects, including automatic active window enhancement & blur effect, ragged edge splicing, pixelation, smart text removal, Smart auto naming of files, easy renaming and format conversion, ability to embed textual comments in files or add attractive captions to images unsurpassed multi-monitor support, scrolling windows capture and much more.

    It is, however, lacks the visual appeal and user-friendly UI. It follows the design language of its own, which resembles the Windows XP era. The icons and buttons are very small, which seems a little hard to get used to.

    Download Screenshot Captor

    PicPick

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    This app works on Windows platform and helps the users capture their screen for a variety of purposes. A ton of various options is offered by this app for editing the images. Screenshot can be taken in 7 different ways. This is available for free and offers unique features to the users.

    • The users can take screenshots of active window or of the entire screen
    • Tons of customizable hotkeys can be setup
    • The screenshots can be annotated with text, arrows and ribbon style editor which is built-in
    • Resize, rotate and crop the images
    • Effects such as color balance, sharpen and blur can be added
    • The screen can be magnified while capturing screenshots
    • After snapping, the images can be uploaded to an FTP server

    FastStone Capture

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    This tool can be accessed for $20 and also offers few extra features while capturing screenshots. The screenshots can be incorporated in PowerPoint presentation or in the word. These can also be saved in several formats. This is a good alternative for users who do not wish to work with PicPick.

    Shelr

    There are many screens capturing applications available today with the prime focus on capturing the entire screen. It becomes hard to capture tutorials which lay emphasis on explaining the content on the command line. For instance, if you are explaining programming concepts to your audience, then you can incorporate screen captures to make everything clear. This free application lets you deal with such problems. This helps you record activity over the command line. This is available for Ubuntu platform.

    Ashampoo Snap

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    Ashampoo Snap is another premium screen capture tool that I have been personally using since a long time. It is one of the most advanced screen capture tools out there, with the ability to record the screen as a video. Ashampoo Snap enables users to capture with pixel perfect accuracy, edit and share screen contents either as single images or videos. The application comes with powerful image editing capabilities.

    Skitch

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    This is another cool app for capturing screen shots on Windows platform. This offers PicPick a strong competition in its features. This tool is simple to use. Capturing the screen, annotating and saving it as an image can be done in no time. The annotation can be done prettily and much easily.

    Ubuntu

    Shutter

    This is another application offered for free and works perfectly if you have an Ubuntu desktop. This fits aptly in the indicator menu. This app doesn’t just allow the users to capture screenshots of the desktop screen but also lets then annotate and edit them. After the installation process has been completed, this application lets the users capture screenshots of windows, parts of desktops and menus. The users can make use of the edit tool with which the screenshots can be easily annotated. Few parts of the screenshots captured can also be buried to protect the user privacy.

    GNOME screenshot tool

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    This is a staple tool if the users wish to capture simple screenshots and wish to do nothing else. This is installed in Ubuntu by default. This can be easily accessed by pressing the PrintScreen button from the keyboard of the device. This will capture a screenshot and a pop-up will appear prompting the users to indicate the location where the file needs to be saved.

  • Top 10 stunning Digital Tech gadgets, July 2012 [images]

    Top 10 stunning Digital Tech gadgets, July 2012 [images]

    We brought you another set of top 10 digital gadgets which can bring your knowledge base about the future one step forward.

    There are so many possibilities and researches going on already and we cannot include every one of those awesome gadgets in the list.

    Take a look at a group of 10 top tech innovations from the past weeks and prepare to be surprised, delighted and maybe even intrigued.

     

    1. Google Fiber

    google fiberYou heard the rumors right here last week, and now Google has officially announced Google Fiber, a combination broadband and television service that’s set to light up the Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo. area in a couple of months.

    Here you see the Google Fiber network box, handling broadband duties, and costing those lucky Kansas city dwellers $70 a month to take part in superfast service that offers unheard-of gigabit speeds for downloads and uploads.

    If you don’t need that much speed, a flat fee of $300 gets you 5Mbps download and 1Mbps upload speeds — about average for Internet service in the U.S. — and after paying that fee, it will be free. Or, you can pay that off in $25 monthly increments for a year, and after that it’s all free. Such a deal.

     

    2. Racing simulator with 160-inch curved Screen

    120 curved screenLook at this 160-inch curved screen from Swedish company Norman Design, using rear-projection and serious graphics power to create a spectacular Formula One racing simulator.

    there’s even a mockup of a nose of an Formula One vehicle there, just to keep things super-realistic. Spectacular stuff.

    Sure, you can buy this lovely screen aside from all its ersatz racing goodness, but really, are you going to be working Excel spreadsheets on this enormous display? You could.

     

    3. LG 84-Inch Ultra-Hi-Def TV

    LG 84 inchYou can’t be too rich, too thin or have too large of a TV screen, and now LG takes that beyond the mundane, now taking pre-orders for this 84-inch behemoth, going first to lucky recipients in Korea.

    Not only is it gigantic, but it has ultrahigh definition, cranking out 4K resolution (3,840 x 2,160), giving you TV that’s a whole lot sharper than the best HDTV is today.

    So far, LG is offering just 84 of these super-sets, selling for $21,975 out of the gate. Although the company promises there will be content available, I’m thinking the biggest drawback (other than its exorbitant price ) will be the lack of sufficient movies and TV shows available in that stratospheric format. But keep in mind, ultrahigh definition TV (UHDTV) is on the way, and might be in your living room sooner than you think.

     

    4. Next Gen Microsoft Office – Word

    microsoft wordVersion 15 of Microsoft Office is on its way. Otherwise known as Office 2013, it’s now a cloud-based subscription service, where you’re not stuck with the software on any particular machine, but it follows you around on whichever device you’re using.

    Word 15 is looking familiar, with that same ribbon interface of its predecessors.

    Office 15 is now available as a consumer preview, if you’d like to try it out free for a few months. Want to give it a go? You can download the consumer preview here.

     

    5. Soul by Ludacris: Usain Bolt Edition

    ludacris soulIn honor of the Olympics, Soul by Ludacris has released a Usain Bolt Edition of its superb SL300 headphones with active noise cancellation. I took a close listen to the SL300s — my review unit was in shiny black with white accents — and I was astonished at the accuracy and punchy power of these comfortable cans.

    How do you like the wild colors of these $349.95 headphones? They’re supposed to suggest Jamaica, home country of the Olympic sprinter who’s been called “the fastest man alive.”

     

    6. Shapeshifting Razer Ouroboros Mouse

    Shapeshifting Razer Ouroboros MouseSerious gamers, you want your mouse to fit your hand exactly. That’s the idea behind the Razer Ouroboros Mouse, a elaborately adjustable ambidextrous pointing device for lefties or righties.

    You can adjust the length of the mouse, as well as the width of its side panels. Even its back arch is adjustable. Powered by single AA battery, this bad boy sports an 8200dpi fourth-generation dual sensor system, using laser and optical sensors at the same time.

    Save up your $129.99, because if you’re having trouble finding a mouse that fits your hand just right, this one might actually be worth it.

     

    7. McLaren JetSet Concept

    McLaren JetSet ConceptTake a look at this carbon fiber beauty from the future, a design concept by Marianna Merenmies that looks more like an aircraft than an automobile.

    It looks like it’s set to pounce with those two wing-like wheel wells, while the front takes some design cues from McLaren cars.

    It certainly would be fun to drive a car that’s just about as high off the ground as a go-kart, but I’d be concerned about whether other vehicles could see me in this minuscule projectile of a vehicle.

     

    8. Memory Breakthrough

    Memory BreakthroughWhy should we care about a geeky thing like a memory breakthrough? Here’s why: You could fit 50 petabytes of data onto a solid-state drive that’s the size of one of today’s 1TB spinning drives.

    That means someday soon, you might have more available storage than you could ever possibly fill up.

    The geniuses at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have accomplished this magic by extreme miniaturization, making it so that one bit of data can be stored on a single molecule. It’s mind-boggling.

     

    9. Touch Skin Watch

    Touch Skin WatchOLED displays are getting more cost-effective, and here’s a design concept that takes advantage of a time in the near future when we will see OLEDs everywhere.

    The Touch Skin Watch has a snazzy charger to keep it powered up every night, and a chameleon-like face that can mimic any watch face or graphic you can possibly imagine.

    Its multitouch interface can show you either the time when you touch it with one finger, the date when you touch it with two fingers, or if you touch the screen with three fingers, it cycles through the various skins you have installed.

     

    10. Project Glass prototype Glassess

    google glassLots of us want to get our hands on Google’s Project Glass glasses but the future-tech is still a far-cry from being ready for consumers. Or is it?

    At Google I/O, the company allowed attendees who are willing to pony up $1500 access to prototype-versions of the next-generation of wearable computing.

    After watching the spectacular Project Glass skydiving video, we can’t wait to get our hands on this tech — even if it’s still in the prototype stage.

  • Top 10 solid rugged cases for your iphone

    Top 10 solid rugged cases for your iphone

    Everyone loves their iPhone, no wonder how careful you are chances are that you gonna make your iPhone weep unknowingly. If you are adventurous person, you might risk your iPhone to be dumped, splashed, shattered, kicked, bumped, dropped or dinged. No wonder people use a highly rugged cases for such situation. They somewhat look ugly and your friends or other people who get to see your iPhone cover will hate it (and most probably you do). but they does their work, what is they are good at. 

    Here is the list of 10, highly rugged military style iPhone cases you might opt for:

    11. Incipio Bombproof

    We like the chunky “grenade” look of the Boomproof, but that’s not all it has going for it.

    As well as raised, covered buttons where the iPhone’s controls are, it comes complete with a clear screen protector.

    This high-density silicone case is also available in red, orange, blue, black, pink and grey.

    Cost starts: $4.00

     

    22. iSkin Revo 4

    iSkin’s rugged solution has a unique selling point — a detachable, tinted screen “ViSOR” that has a touch-friendly “zone” at the bottom of the screen.

    This lets users answer calls without exposing their handset to risk. When not in use the ViSOR clips to the back of the case.

    Cost: From $25.99

     

    33. Speck MightyVault

    Boasting triple-layer protection, the MightyVault system has extra silicone at its corners and a hard polycarbonate shell that can be removed.

    For times when you want extra protection, the connector and headphone jack can be sealed off with rubbery covers.

    Cost: $28.99

     

    44. Case-Mate Tank

    Case-Mate’s “Tank” comprises of a hard polycarbonate impact resistant exterior and a shock-absorbing silicone interior.

    Its tough credentials are enhanced by the retractable screen protector — an easy-slide, polypropylene retractable screen that shields the front of the phone.

    Cost: $38.99

     

    55. Griffin Technology Survivor

    Griffin’s “Survivor” case is made up of a shatter-resistant polycarbonate frame surrounded by shock-absorbing silicone.The Survivor incorporates a built-in screen protector, a detachable clip and hinged plugs to protect the connector and headphone jack.Offering protection from rain, blown dust and grit, vibration, shock, temperature and humidity, the case is certified to U.S. Department of Defense Standard 810 degrees F.

    Cost: $34.99

    66. LifeProof iPhone Case

    LifeProof’s offering is waterproof, dirtproof, snowproof and shockproof for drops of up to six and a half feet.

    With a sleek design, slimline dimensions and weighing in at under an ounce, it’s a great option for anyone looking for protection without the tough guy looks.

    Cost: $79.99

     

    77. Cygnett WorkMate Pro

    The WorkMate Pro combines polycarbonate and silicone to offer protection against drops and everyday bumps and scrapes.

    It comes complete with a screen protector, a two year manufacturer’s warranty, and looks that will help you spot your iPhone a mile off.

    Cost: $19.99

     

    88. Seidio CONVERT

    The Siedio CONVERT system boasts two cases in one. There’s a slimline case designed for everyday protection and a heavy-duty case which Siedio claims meets “the demands of the outdoors and rugged professions.”

    Additionally, the locking CONVERT holster will secure your iPhone to a utility belt for times when you need to go hands-free.

    Cost: From $33.99

    99. IvySkin Quattro4 Wrangler

    The Quattro4 Wrangler gets a real glass, anti-glare “Touch-Thru” screen, while the case is made from “ultra-high strength” polycarbonate, aluminum and TPU.

    Other features of note include a special six-point lining that IvySkin claims will act as airbags for the iPhone in case of a drop and pressure-sensing power and home buttons.

    Cost: From $49.99

     

    1010. Kraken A.M.S. iPhone 4S

    With dust filters and a built-in screen protector, the Kraken will shield your phone from harm.

    Another two-in-one solution, the tough outer casing can be removed leaving a silicone cover for more lightweight protection.

    The Kracken’s big selling point is the interchangeable kickstand which can be removed to fit various accessories such as a car or tripod mount or universal clip.

    Cost: $44.95