As I'm using both Mac/OSX and Windows 7 for my work I always had a big issue in finding a good screen capture application that will allow me to quickly take a snapshot in Windows in the same manner as I do in OSX (combo keys and being able to select a region). I always had trouble finding as some of these apps on Windows never seemed to match that simplicity of OSX screen capture.
Don't get me wrong, they have tons of options and are in many cases more advanced than default simple OSX screen capture but the reality is that I wanted to capture in PNG, a region of the screen, quickly capture it without having the app show up with additional options and me having to use mouse and so on (just a quick combo of keys I needed), it creates a file for me or puts the screenshot in clipboard and then alternatively uploads to my server and gives me back a quick URL so I can post on the web super quickly.
Also, I have tried EVERY SINGLE FTP program on WIndows and after using SmartFTP and CuteFTP and WSFTP and whatever haha.. They are all super overcrowded and nowhere close to simplicity of Panic's Transmit for example.
So with the latest reinstall on my new machine of WIndows 7 I was looking to finally solve these 2 problems or issues if you will. I couldn't believe that in the world of Windows there weren't apps that were as good or better than OSX versions.
And I FOUND THEM.. so I'm sharing them with everyone here
FTP that is actually working on both OSX and Windows (which is a huge help especially with FTP bookmarks):
Cyberduck (available both on Win & OSX and Open Source)
FastStone Capture app: The absolute best of the best programs I have ever used. They nailed EVERY SINGLE ONE of the things you might want.
And for those who can't live without Expose coming from OSX (I won't lie, I did kind of get used to it), this app is identical, GPU accelerated, super light and fast and actually has even more options how to stack and show Expose-like windows.
Expose for Win7 app is called Switcher 2.0
and WOW, Trillian has improved so much that it's crazy.. it's been a while since I used it but damn. I installed it and that thing does EVERYTHING you can ever imagine. If you haven't tried it try it.. it's the best IM app I've ever seen and I owned the previous one Trillian 4 or something and it was slow and buggy but this one. Crazy fast, supports devices and keeps your logs in the cloud so it's all sync-ed and has Android, iOS, Blackberry, OSX, Windows versions. Very impressed!
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As I'm using both Mac/OSX and Windows 7 for my work I always had a big issue in finding a good screen capture application that will allow me to quickly take a snapshot in Windows in the same manner as I do in OSX (combo keys and being able to select a region). I always had trouble finding as some of these apps on Windows never seemed to match that simplicity of OSX screen capture.
Don't get me wrong, they have tons of options and are in many cases more advanced than default simple OSX screen capture but the reality is that I wanted to capture in PNG, a region of the screen, quickly capture it without having the app show up with additional options and me having to use mouse and so on (just a quick combo of keys I needed), it creates a file for me or puts the screenshot in clipboard and then alternatively uploads to my server and gives me back a quick URL so I can post on the web super quickly.
Also, I have tried EVERY SINGLE FTP program on WIndows and after using SmartFTP and CuteFTP and WSFTP and whatever haha.. They are all super overcrowded and nowhere close to simplicity of Panic's Transmit for example.
So with the latest reinstall on my new machine of WIndows 7 I was looking to finally solve these 2 problems or issues if you will. I couldn't believe that in the world of Windows there weren't apps that were as good or better than OSX versions.
And I FOUND THEM.. so I'm sharing them with everyone here
FTP that is actually working on both OSX and Windows (which is a huge help especially with FTP bookmarks):
Cyberduck (available both on Win & OSX and Open Source)
FastStone Capture app: The absolute best of the best programs I have ever used. They nailed EVERY SINGLE ONE of the things you might want.
And for those who can't live without Expose coming from OSX (I won't lie, I did kind of get used to it), this app is identical, GPU accelerated, super light and fast and actually has even more options how to stack and show Expose-like windows.
Expose for Win7 app is called Switcher 2.0
and WOW, Trillian has improved so much that it's crazy.. it's been a while since I used it but damn. I installed it and that thing does EVERYTHING you can ever imagine. If you haven't tried it try it.. it's the best IM app I've ever seen and I owned the previous one Trillian 4 or something and it was slow and buggy but this one. Crazy fast, supports devices and keeps your logs in the cloud so it's all sync-ed and has Android, iOS, Blackberry, OSX, Windows versions. Very impressed!
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