An image or video taken by a computer to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, television, or another visual output device. Usually, screen capture is a software process where the image is captured as it is intended to be drawn but can also include traditional recording using a camera ...
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How to take a screenshot of the front window from the command line?
The screencapture utility has a -w switch which allows capturing the front window, but only after highlighting the window and getting a click from the user.
Is there any way to capture the front ...
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How do I take an iPad screenshot that includes a picture of the iPad border around it?
I know how to take a normal screenshot with my iPad, but I'm looking to see how people on the internet are able to show content on the iPad in a picture that has the physical border of an iPad.
Do ...
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Decreasing resolution of screenshots increases file size
I've noticed that on my rMBP, when I try to make a screenshot smaller using Preview.app version 6.0.1 (Tools -> Adjust Size).
When I'm trying to decrease the image size to upload it, the file size ...
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Changing the default screenshot filename
Is there a way to change the default screenshot filename prefix (the Cmd-Shift-4 type screenshot) to something other than the default? The default name looks like this:
Screen Shot 2011-08-30 at ...
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Are there any “App Store quality” apps for creating animated GIFs from a series of image files?
I searched the App Store for "animated GIF" but the only returned app was one to convert a movie file into an animated GIF. I need to go the other way: I have a series of screenshots taken of an app ...
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How can I take a larger screenshot on my iPhone?
I would like to take a screenshot of an entire web page in Mobile Safari, not just the part that's visible on the screen. I'm running iOS 5 on an iPhone 4, but I'm pretty sure this functionality isn't ...
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Random shutter sound
Every once in a while I hear a loud sound from my Mac. It sounds like either a camera shutter or a keychain lock/unlock. It all started a couple of weeks ago.
I fear something is snapping shots of my ...
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How can I make screenshots be true pixels?
It seems like all my screenshots end up being twice as many pixels as they should even though I run the screen in 1920x1200. If I screenshot this editing box, via command + shift + 4 it says about ...
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Quicktime records a green screen [closed]
right now when I record a screen with a standard quicktime functionality, I get a completely green video. I'm on mountain lion and Retina MBP 15". Does anybody know what is the issue and how it can ...
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How do I use screencapture for capturing floating windows?
I am trying to automate the periodic capture of a floating window. Specifically, of the floating 'Current Call' window which is used by Skype when the main window is off-screen.
By googling, I found ...
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Use desktop as camera on Mountain Lion
Hopefully this is not too difficult;
I have an Elgato Game Capture HD, which I am using to capture an HDMI signal. What I want to do is take either the onscreen capture window or the USB signal into ...
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How do I take screen shots on DVD movies and protected content?
I saw this awesome movie that I watched on DVD and wanted to take a screen shot of it, but when I did, it was transparent. I could only see my desktop taken but not the movie. Is there a specific ...
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Regional Screenshot Capture: Freeze Screen Before Capture?
I need a screenshot program that will freeze the current content (in my case, a streaming live lecture) and allow me to take a regional screenshot. In other words, once I hit the screencapture ...
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How can I make a screenshot (printscreen) on my Macbook Pro using Windows 7?
How can I make a screenshot on Macbook pro using Windows 7?
The keyboard does not include a special key for this function.
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How can I make crisper screen shots on MBP Retina?
So we all know that the Retina has a double density screen. As such, when I take screen shots they are 144ppi instead of 72ppi. These are great when I am looking at them in Photoshop, but if I paste ...
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iPhone 4 (and 4s) won't take a screen shot. What should I do?
After owning an iPad for a couple of years, last week I purchased my first iPhone. I've been well aware of the feature where you press the power button + Home key, and iOS will take a screenshot of ...
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HD screen recording of iOS App
I'm struggling to record a high quality video of my iOS app. There are several similar questions out there, but my focus is on high quality. To my knowledge there are only two options to record a ...
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“New Screenshot” button is disabled in XCode Organizer
I have connected my iPhone to my Mac..
When I open XCode Organizer, the New Screenshot button is disabled..
Any idea why???
XCode Version 4.3.2
iOS 6.0.1
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How do I permanantly disable zoom feature when taking screenshots/screencapture (cmd+shift+4)?
Recently made a jump to Mountain Lion and it appears Apple added a feature to the screenshot function (cmd+shift+4) that zooms in when it is a small screenshot. It's a pain and I want to disable it ...
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How do I take a video version of screenshot on iPod Touch 4th Gen?
I want to create videos of myself doing app demos on my iPod, how do I create a video version of screen shot?
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Is there an easier keyboard shortcut for taking a screenshot on OSX 10.5?
I'm running OSX 10.5 and was wondering if there is an easier way to make screenshots which save to clipboard?
I know I can use:
CMD+CTRL+SHIFT+4
However this is hard on the fingers.
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What's that site that frames screenshots in iPhone/iPad/Mac stock photos?
Late last year in 2012, someone had launched a site that let you upload screenshots (or any image really) and it would embed them into nice stock photos of a Apple phone, tablet or laptop/desktop. It ...
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How can I create iPhone screenshots without the lock button?
Is there any way to create a screenshot of an iPhone without using the combination home+lock button? Is there an app for jailbroken phones? Something else?
I do not have a Mac; only Windows.
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Screen Recording apps for the iphone 5 (iOS6)?
Apart from iRecorder and Display recorder (with extremely bad reviews) I have not been able to find any other app with the ability to screencast on an iPhone.
I have already looked at this post and ...
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Cursor flickers
I have a problem with my cursor. Especially when taking screenshots the cursor and the coordinates (numbers) flicker pretty much. I can't see the numbers when I drag the cursor. That error wasn't ...
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Can I get system sound along with QuickTime Player screen recording?
In Lion, Quicktime can do screen recordings. Is there a way to capture system audio also and then sync the two tracks into a movie with both system video out (The screen) and system audio out? I own ...
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What methods are there for making a screencast from an iPad 2 or 3 with iOS 5?
I need to find a way to output, or possibly make an internal recording of, a screencast of everything on the iPad screen, so that I can record demonstrations of an app my company is developing.
Of ...
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How to do a screen capture from iPad 3?
I need to record me using an iPad while I am drawing on it (with Penultimate). I usually use ScreenFlow to record onscreen actions on my desktop Mac, so I need a way to display iPad on my Mac. Is ...
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Index screenshots
I want to be able to search through text in my screenshots that I made. Prizmo does the OCR feature pretty well and also has an Automator action provided. Unfortunately, though, I have no idea how to ...
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Tool to quickly hide/blur/redact text in as screenshot?
I've captured a screenshot and I want to share it (on stackoverflow actually :), but I need to blur/hide out a couple words in the screenshot. Is a there tool to quickly do this?
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Are there any apps or tools that allow visualizing multitouch finger positions for iOS screencast/recording?
I'd like to have a visual indicator of multitouch finger positions as I record the iOS screen of an iPad using AirPlay.
This seems like something that would require a jailbreak. Luckily I do have my ...
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Change quality of built-in recording script
I've recently bought ScreenFlow, but I noticed that the recording quality is horrible, and even worse when uploaded to Youtube.
After some research I have to the conclusion that it records using Mac ...
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iOS app store submission - including a screenshot that isn't a screenshot of the app [closed]
Along with the screenshots of my app, I'd like to include a screenshot that shows what my app delivers e.g. an SMS message (picture is just for reference):
One of the features of the app is to send ...
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Can I make iPhone 5 screen shots without an iPhone to test with?
Given an html5 application that I have access to, Is there a way to get a screen shot of how it would look on the iPhone 5.
I do not have an iPhone 5, so is this possible?
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How can I capture a screenshot of an entire webpage in iPhone's Safari browser?
How to capture screenshot of entire webpage in iPhone's Safari browser like I can take in my Desktop with Help of Firefox Addon called Fireshot?
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21" Screencasting
I started screen-casting for YouTube but stumbled upon a dilemma.
When viewing one of my videos on YouTube, the text is impossible to read because my monitor is too big. Of course there's the option ...
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How can I combine multiple screenshots in Skitch?
With Skitch, I often find myself wanting to take screenshots of different parts of the screen, annotating them, and combining them into one image. I could use a separate program for this last step, ...
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Pause screen recording in QuickTime X
I found a screen recording feature of QuickTime X very useful. Except you can't pause the recording, as in most other screen recording programs. Or can you?
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Use cron to screencapture on Mountain Lion
I want to set cron to capture the current desktop every hour:
screencapture -Cd -tjpg ~/Desktop/screen-`date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M"`.jpg
I tired this method but it seems doesn't work on Mountain Lion. I ...
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Screen video capture application
I am Looking for a program that let's me capture screen videos on Mac OS X.
I am requesting it for these two use cases:
Capture of a webcam. It should allow capturing only the webcam App window.
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Is there a way to change the naming scheme for screenshots? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Save screenshot with my own name
Is there any way, short of a third-party application (I'm quite fond of the baked-in functionality of the screenshot system in Mac OS), ...
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Feasible font size on the Retina MacBook Pro
I'm interested in the amount of text that can be fit into for example code editor windows such that it is still comfortably readable to someone with good vision (i.e. not needing glasses or using ...
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How do I take a screenshot without the shadow behind it?
If I take a screenshot with Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + 4 + Space, then I get one of the two images:
Either way the saved image is surrounded by the shadow halo. I could then edit it out by hand (using ...
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LittleSnapper: how do you make the area of an image larger?
I'm using LittleSnapper:
After snapping a screenshot, I'd like to add more space below the image, to make room for annotations. Is this possible?
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Where does Quicktime store its screen recordings?
I was recording my screen whilst giving a presentation. Instead of stopping the recording cleanly I closed the lid of my laptop. Later, when I opened it again, the recording had stopped, but there was ...
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Alternative to Windows Snipping Tool for Mac OSX
Is there something like the Windows Snipping Tool for OSX?
For those, who don't know about the tool, it's an easy to use software to take snapshot of any portion of screen, and is really useful in ...
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How can I get `defaults write com.apple.screencapture` to change screen capture location in Mountain Lion
I used to be able to set the key location under com.apple.screencapture to change the save location for the system-wide screen capture facility.
This doesn't work for me anymore -- screenshots save ...
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What screen capture tools can copy the image path to the clipboard after a snap?
Can anyone recommend a screen capture tool that can:
save a capture as a file, and...
copy the path to that file to the clipboard?
The first part is easy, but I can't find a utility that does the ...
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Make a screen-shot and upload with a script
I am not very good with AppleScript but I would imagine this is something quite easy for the AppleScript guru out there, I am looking to make a screenshot of a region like with doing Apple-Shift-s and ...
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What screen capture apps for OS X exist as alternatives to Fraps?
What is the best alternative to Fraps for the Mac?
What should it do:
In-game screen capture.
Record audio from both microphone and system audio at the same time
Fast
(Optional) Video compression.
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