Handy capture utility

If you use the Firefox Web browser on Windows (which I highly recommend), there's a great plug-in for taking browser screen grabs called, what else, ScreenGrab. It lets you take a screen shot of the entire Web page (even if parts of it aren't visible without scrolling), take a snap of just the visible portion of a page, or select the precise area to capture.

ter it's installed and you restart your browser, you'll see a little doo-hickey in the lower right corner of the Firefox window. Just right-click it and capture away!

This beats the default Windows screen capture approach, which is to capture the entire screen.

Note that Mac users can already do a variety of screen grabs without anything extra - it's built into the operating system. Just hit Command-Shift-3 to capture the entire screen or Command-Shift-4 to define an area.