Software Review: Digeus' SnapIt Screen Capture

I use both my Macbook and Windows PC to write blog posts. Occasionally I need to insert a screen capture of the website I am blogging about. This would be easy and cool in Mac Os especially when it comes to capturing a portion of the your laptop screen in focus that you want to highlight.

Here are the two simple commands I need to use when I need to do a screen capture in Mac Os:

If I want to capture a screenshot of the entire screen, and save it as a PNG file on the desktop - I use: Command-Shift-3

If I want to capture a portion of the screen that I am interested in and save it as a file on the desktop, I use: Command-Shift-4, then select an area of the screen that I am interested in.

But for Windows PC, it is difficult to do unless you crop the picture after you capture it.

But with Digeus' SnapIt Screen Capture, I can do this as I have been doing using my MacBook.

SnapIt is a user-friendly software that you can pick up and learn within minutes. With that, I can take "snapshots" of anything, anywhere on the screen, as exactly as I need, with a click.

Some of the features of SnapIt include:

• Supports hotkeys, auto-saving, clipboard
• Automatically copies screenshots to the clipboard
• Tracks capture history, auto-saves captured images
• Saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats
• Auto-names captured images

Download and install a trial version of SnapIt Screen Capture 3.7 here:
http://digeus.com/downloads/snapit/files/3/snapit_3_7.exe

Learn more what is included in SnapIt Screen Capture 3.7:
http://www.digeus.com/products/snapit/snapit_screen_capture_3_5.html

GOOD NEWS!
Digeus offers a full version giveaway for anyone who write a review in any blog/forum/twitter/facebook, etc on SnapIt Screen Capture. Once you have done with your review, send a link to your post to Julia Taylor of Digeus at julia.taylor@digeus.com. She will issue a registration code for the software.

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Note: This is a sponsored blog post. I received a free registration code for this software review.
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Bundling two separate pdf files in a single pdf file

As an academician, one of the most needed software is a software that can convert a Office document into a pdf format.

Fortunately, the Microsoft Office 2007 that I am currently using has such option by clicking "Safe as" and choosing pdf from the top-down menu option.

But the other equally needed program that I need is a software that can bind two separate pdf files into a single pdf.

This would be useful in cases where the pagination system used in the two separate files are different, e.g. one in Roman numerals, and the other in Arabic numerals. This happens in cases like preparing a dissertation, where the first few sections, viz, the Table of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables, etc, etc are usually paged in Roman numerals, whereas the main text of the dissertation is paged in Arabic numerals. As such, you would need a software to bundle these two files together. Other cases include when you want to bind all the related journal articles you have downloaded into a single file.

You can do all these, if you are Adobe Acrobat Professional version (not the free reader). Unfortunately this professional version can be quite costly.

Another option that I have found is using A-PDF Merger software (see the screenshot above). A-PDF Merger is a simple, lightning-fast desktop utility program that lets you combine two or more image files or Acrobat PDF files into a single PDF document. Office files can also be merged if A-PDF Office to PDF also installed. A-PDF Merger provides special merge methods that allow you to combine documents and document parts in a number of different ways to make your work more effective. Best of all, it is cheaper, especially with current special pricing.

You can try downloading the trial version by clicking here. The trial version is actually fully functional except that it contains a watermark at the first page whereas for the full version, with a license code, the watermark is removed.