How To Take Screenshot Linux ( Ubuntu )

There are several ways to take a screenshot Linux in general.
If you aren't using GNOME, then the GNOME-specific items won't work.


One way to take a screenshot in Ubuntu is to go to the main menu:
Applications —> Accessories —> Take Screenshot.

How to Take a Screenshot in Linux With the PrintScreen Button

You can also take a screenshot of the entire screen by pushing the
"Print Screen" (PrtSc) button on your keyboard. To get a screenshot of
only the active window, use Alt-PrtSc.

How to Take a Screenshot in Linux With the Terminal (ImageMagick)

If you need a delay before taking the screenshot (for example,
to get a screenshot of a menu that would disappear if you took
a screenshot with GNOME) ImageMagick is the best way.

make sure you have ImageMagic installed: type import -version in the terminal.
If ImageMagick is installed, you will see the ImageMagick version number.
To install ImageMagick in Ubuntu (or any Debian-based distro),
just type sudo apt-get install imagemagick.

To take a screenshot in the terminal with ImageMagick,
type the following line into a terminal and then click-and-drag
the mouse over a section of the screen:

import MyScreenshot.png

GNOME will beep once when the screenshot begins, and once again when the
screenshot is complete. Then type eog MyScreenshot.png in the terminal to
view your screenshot. "eog" is the command to start Eye of GNOME.

To capture the entire screen after a delay (so you can open some menus or whatever),
type sleep 10; import -window root MyScreenshot2.png.
The first part of that line, sleep 10; will give you a 10 second delay before
the screenshot begins. The next part, import -window root,
tells ImageMagick to import the "root" window — that is, the entire screen.
The last part MyScreenshot2.png is the name of your screenshot.

How to Take a Screenshot in Linux With the Terminal (scrot)

To install scrot (on Ubuntu) type:
sudo aptitude install scrot

To take a screenshot in Linux from the terminal with scrot type:
scrot MyScreenshot.png

To get a screenshot and immediately open it in the GIMP, type:
scrot -q 85 -d 5 screenshot.png && gimp screenshot.png &

The -q option sets the quality. The -d sets the delay.
The && means that if the first command is true, then execute the second.
The final & means to run the commands in the background so that you
can still use that terminal for other commands.

How to Take a Screenshot With the GIMP

To take a screenshot with the GIMP,
find the following menu option: File —> Acquire —> Screen Shot.
You will then be offered some options for the screenshot such as length
of delay and whether you want to take a screenshot of the entire screen, or just a window.

How to Take a Screenshot of a Web Page With Firefox

Snapper Firefox Screenshot Extension

to take a screenshot of a section of a web page, use Snapper.

A great Firefox extension for taking screenshots is called ScreenGrab.
ScreenGrab will take screenshots of entire web pages
even the parts that run off the screen.

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How to take Screenshots

This document describes how to capture an image of the screen in Windows (all versions).

• Press the PrintScreen key on the keyboard

(generally located in the top right hand corner)
to capture an image of the entire screen and store it in the Windows clipboard.

• Press Alt & Print Screen (sometimes labeled as Prt Sc)

to capture an image of only the active window and store it in the Windows clipboard.


When the desired image is stored in the windows clipboard
(only one image can be stored at a time), it can be extracted
by opening a word process program (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, etc.)
or an image manipulation program (such as Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Paint),
and selecting Paste from the Edit menu or press Control & V.


In Windows Vista

In Vista (except in Home Basic), there is a tool called the Snipping Tool.
To open it, click on the start menu, type 'snip', then hit enter.
The Snipping Tool opens, and a white mask is applied on the screen.
In the drop-down menu for the 'New' button, choose from a free-form snip,
rectangular snip, window snip, or full-screen snip.
In free-form snip mode, draw around the area you want to be captured.
Drag a rectangle in rectangular snip mode. For window snip mode,
select the window you want to capture. In full-screen mode, just selecting it
from the drop-down menu makes the capture.
The snipped image is then opened within the Snipping Tool, but is also copied
to the Windows clipboard for use in other applications.

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Browse faster - simple tips

For those of you who have slower connections, here are the ways to speed up
your connection.Use the following tips to browse faster with a limited bandwidth.

Always use Firefox and Opera to browse the web: Both FF and Opera are faster
than IE and have got lots of Bandwidth saving features.
For instance, the new version of Gmail pre-fetches the emails for faster performance
which is a bandwidth sucker. It loads all emails including those which you have
no intention reading at that time.

Block unwanted Images:
Opera can block images via a button on the View bar.
A Firefox Add-on ImgLikeOpera does the same on Firefox.Most websites
usually contain lots of animations and images which we don’t even notice.
If you need any images, you can always load specific images
(Right click > View image on Opera and Right click > Load image on FF).
Use "Load cached images" option.

Block Flash and Adsense:
Use the Adblock Plus Firefox Add-on to block Adsense Ads and Flash animations.
A flash ad can be as big as 200 kb or even more! This add-on makes pages load
faster and saves on bandwidth. If you have ever been to Digg, you might have
noticed the number of Ads per page. How fast would the pages load if there
were no ads?

Remove the Bandwidth Intensive Plugins:
Some Firefox Add-on’s like those that bring you the Alexa ranks or Google PR,
connect with their server to bring you the stats. If you don’t need those stats,
disable those plugins. If you need the stats sometimes, but not every now and \then, then create a different Firefox profile with those plugins.

Hibernate Windows instead of Shutting Down:
Hibernation saves your desktop the way you left it
(Microsoft says that even the mouse location is saved).
Save your windows and continue work from last days end.
That’s saves a lot of unnecessary pageloads and saves bandwidth!

Use Desktop Clients like Pidgin and TweetDeck:
Pidgin is an open source chat client that can connect to multiple chat networks
at the same time. Moreover it’s a very light client that doesn’t suck bandwidth
the way Gtalk does. TweetDeck is a must have fo. It makes the twitter
experience more enjoyable by fetching the tweets so that you don’t have
to refresh your pages to see if you have new tweets.

Block Automatic Updates:
Most software have the automatic updates enabled by default.
The software detects when you are connected to the internet and checks
and downloads updates. So you loose control on your bandwidth.
Instead, Disable all automatic updates and all softwares towards
the end of the month, when you know how much usage remains.

Disable Opening of Files inline:
Browsers open PDF files and Video files inline. It might open a PDF without
telling you how big the file is. Worst part, the browser becomes non-responsive
until it completes loading the file.
Result: You waste bandwidth on a large PDF which you have no intention reading.
You can disable that in Firefox Options.

Monitor your usage:
Use a Network monitor to know how much you use and how much
bandwidth remains. It helps in planning things better.
Use a Free Bandwidth meter from ShaPlus. It’s a good one and has the necessary options.

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BING - tips and tricks

Now that Bing is available for use outside Microsoft,
here are some quick tips and tricks that will help you do more with Bing.com.

1. Use the full version of Bing

If you are using Bing outside North America, chances are that you seeing
a localized version of Bing that may be missing some features.
For instance, the Indian version of Bing.com doesn’t have search history
and the image on the Bing home page here is not interactive as in the US version.

To explore the full version of Bing, go to this page and set English - US
as your default region. You can now enjoy all the Bing features from anywhere.

2. Track Companies from the IE Favorites Bar

If you search for a company stock (e.g. GOOG or MSFT), Bing will automatically
create a web slice for that company which you may then add to IE 8 and track
the performance directly from the favorites bar.
You need Internet Explorer 8 to try this feature.

3. Watch Preview of Hulu Videos outside US

Hulu hosts some popular popular TV shows but the problem is that
you can only watch these videos if your computer has US based IP address.

However, Bing lets you watch shot previews of Hulu video even outside US.
Just search for any TV show episode on Bing Videos (see example) and
hover the mouse over any of the video thumbnail to watch a short clip.

4. Save and Email search results

With Bing, you can save your search history on to a local folder inside Bing or
to your Windows Skydrive account. Alternatively, you may send your
search queries to a friend via email or publish them on your Facebook wall
via Bing. You’ll need Silverlight to share queries in Bing.

5. RSS Feeds of Search Results

Unlike Google or Yahoo, Bing offers RSS feeds for their web search results
that you can subscribe to inside any feed reader. Your browser should be
able to auto-detect the RSS feed of Bing pages or you can
append &format=rss to any Bing search URL and convert it into a feed.

This RSS feature is not available for Image or Video search in Bing.

6. Find Pages That Link to MP3 Files or Documents

Bing (and Live Search) supports a unique "contains" search operator
that lets you find web pages that contain links to particular file types.

For instance, a search like susan boyle contains:mp3 will show pages
that are about the British singer and that also link to MP3 files.
Replace mp3 with doc to search pages that contain links to Word Documents.

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YouTube XL Brings To Your TV

This morning YouTube invited a small group of press to unveil the latest evolution of the site’s viewing experience. It’s called YouTube XL, and it’s going to bring the vast majority of YouTube’s content to your TV or large-screen computer monitor. It’s already live, and you can check it out here.

At its core YouTube XL is basically a redesigned version of the YouTube website. It’s still run in the browser, and you don’t have to download anything to get it working (assuming you have Flash installed). It looks (and according to the demo, feels) like a native application.

One of the first things you’ll notice about the interface is that it’s very clean. This is due in no small part to the fact that it currently doesn’t have any ads (we can probably expect this to change). But YouTube has stripped out many of the suggested videos, comments, and other content that clutters the main site in favor of a much more streamlined interface that is usable from across the room.

One of the most appealing aspects of XL is that it will work on nearly any device that has a browser and can connect to the TV. That means you’ll be able to use it though your PS3 (though it sounds like there are some limitations - for example, the PS3 doesn’t support HD YouTube videos yet). Likewise the Wii will be able to use the new site, but because of its lower hardware capabilities it outputs at at a lower resolution.

Of course, one of the most key elements to offering a TV-like experience is the abiity to control the application remotely. You can use a wireless keyboard, but YouTube has developed found something a bit more practical called Gmote, a remote control app that runs on Android phones. You can scroll around menus, and also input text if you’d like to search. It’s only on Android so far, but because it’s open source you can potentially develop for other devices as well. The input is sent over your Wi-Fi network.
Update: Gmote is actually a third party application that works well with YouTube XL, but YouTube didn’t develop it in-house.

With Hulu’s release of Hulu Desktop earlier this week, and today’s release of YouTube XL, it’s clear that the video wars are going to be fought in the living room over the next few years. YouTube XL definitely has potential, especially with its integration with the PS3 and the Wii (Hulu Desktop only works on computers). Now the site just needs to work on bringing more premium content to YouTube - it’s fun to watch silly user-generated videos on my computer, but if I’m going to couch surf through YouTube on my big screen TV, I’d rather watch content that’s a little more polished.

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