September 1, 2023

Gizmodo: Google Chrome’s New Tool Lets You Copy and Paste Screenshots From Videos

Gizmodo AU: Google Chrome’s New Tool Lets You Copy and Paste Screenshots From Videos. “Students, teachers, and vintage TV screencappers, the Chrome browser has a new feature that makes taking screenshots of scenes easier than before. Google used a blog post about helpful classroom tools to subtly announce the ability to copy a frame from a video. It’s available in the latest release of Chrome and will roll out to everyone this week.”

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March 26, 2023

Bleeping Computer: Microsoft pushes OOB security updates for Windows Snipping tool flaw

Bleeping Computer: Microsoft pushes OOB security updates for Windows Snipping tool flaw. “Now tracked as CVE-2023-28303, the Acropalypse vulnerability is caused by image editors not properly removing cropped image data when overwriting the original file. For example, if you take a screenshot and crop out sensitive information, such as account numbers, you should have reasonable expectations that this cropped data will be removed when saving the image. However, with this bug, both the Google Pixel’s Markup Tool and the Windows Snipping Tool were found to be leaving the cropped data within the original file.”

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February 1, 2023

MakeUseOf: The 6 Best Free Tools to Capture Images From Video Files

MakeUseOf: The 6 Best Free Tools to Capture Images From Video Files. “To grab a good image from a video, you can either rely on your superb pausing skills or use software to do the hard work for you. Since the quality of simple video screenshots can be unreliable, especially on Windows XP or older versions, go for specialized tools and avoid the hassle. Here are six tools worth your time and what they have to offer your search on how to get stills from videos.”

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February 1, 2023

Android Police: Google is scrapping Chrome’s screenshot editing tool after months of development

Android Police: Google is scrapping Chrome’s screenshot editing tool after months of development. “First featured in Chrome Canary version 98, this utility gained new functionality over months of work, and seemed as though it was destined to launch outside its feature flag as a tool available for all users. Sadly, Chromium commits made earlier this week point to the demise of the screenshot tool — at least in its current form.”

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December 9, 2022

Hongkiat: How to Take Screenshots on Your Smart TV

Hongkiat: How to Take Screenshots on Your Smart TV . “There can be any reason to take screenshots of your TV screen, but most of us don’t know how. In this post, I will show you some ways to take screenshots on your smart TV, where find out where screenshots are saved, and how you can transfer these screenshots to your PC.”

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November 28, 2022

WIRED: This App Gives Your Screenshots Superpowers. That’s Just the Beginning

WIRED: This App Gives Your Screenshots Superpowers. That’s Just the Beginning. “What if screenshots were linkable, or portals to the playlist, the mapped location, the shopping page you wanted to share? That’s the reality Alex Mahedy has been trying to create for the past few years. The twentysomething New York City–based entrepreneur has even convinced some noteworthy venture capitalists to fund the idea. He just launched a new app for sharing link-enabled screenshots, called Pager.”

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October 4, 2022

Global Investigative Journalism Network: Simple Tips for Verifying if a Tweet Screenshot Is Real or Fake

Global Investigative Journalism Network: Simple Tips for Verifying if a Tweet Screenshot Is Real or Fake. “Sharing screenshots of tweets is a common way of sharing information on Twitter. But unlike a quote tweet, in which the actual tweet posted by an account is accessible, screenshots rely on audiences trusting that the post seen in the screenshot is real. Unfortunately, as we know far too well, that’s not how the internet works. Screenshots of tweets can easily be faked using simple tricks and used to mislead audiences for a variety of purposes.”

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December 27, 2021

Lifehacker: 9 Useful Features for Anyone Who Takes Screenshots on Their iPhone

Lifehacker: 9 Useful Features for Anyone Who Takes Screenshots on Their iPhone. “Your iPhone’s built-in screenshot tool has several cool tricks up its sleeve. From turning your squiggly hand-drawn lines into perfectly symmetrical shapes to hiding sensitive information, there’s a lot more you can do than you might expect. Here’s how to make the most of your iPhone’s screenshot utility.” Slideshow, but useful.

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November 8, 2021

MakeUseOf: 5 Powerful Free Apps to Make Screenshots Look Better and Search Their Text

MakeUseOf: 5 Powerful Free Apps to Make Screenshots Look Better and Search Their Text. “Taking a screenshot is almost second nature to content creators, social media managers, designers, marketers, product managers, and developers. It serves many uses, such as simple annotations, quick demonstrations, and saving something for posterity. Given how useful the humble screenshot is, these free apps unlock its true potential.”

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August 29, 2021

Fast Company: How to take screenshots and record your screen on any device

Fast Company: How to take screenshots and record your screen on any device. “While screenshots and screen recording might seem like geeky features, they have all sorts of practical applications. You can use them to share article excerpts on social media, demonstrate how to do something on your device, troubleshoot your own technology problems, capture information that’s at risk of being deleted, or write an old-fashioned Notes app apology letter, among other things. That may explain why Apple, Google, and Microsoft have all built convenient screenshot and screen recording tools right into their respective operating systems.”

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March 14, 2021

Mashable: TikTok users are teaching iPhone owners how to screenshot an entire webpage

Mashable: TikTok users are teaching iPhone owners how to screenshot an entire webpage. “Did you know you could screenshot an entire webpage on your phone, then save it as a PDF and revisit its contents whenever your little heart desires? Full-page screenshotting is a super simple and helpful trick, yet I, a person who’s owned an iPhone for over a decade, had no idea it was possible until I watched this TikTok video.”

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October 13, 2020

Bleeping Computer: Microsoft Edge is getting a new ‘Web Capture’ annotation feature

Bleeping Computer: Microsoft Edge is getting a new ‘Web Capture’ annotation feature. “In Microsoft Edge preview builds, Microsoft has introduced a new tool called ‘Web Capture’ that will allow you to capture screenshots of the webpages and create web notes. With Web Capture feature, you can take screenshots to copy or share. You can also take full-page screenshots by scrolling to the bottom of the webpage.”

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