Key Details of cf/x savescreenie

  • Change the format, name-prefix and location your Screenshots are saved to your liking.
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  • There have been 9 updates
  • Virus scan status:

    Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)


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Editors' Review

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Savescreenie is a free, user-friendly front-end to access an undocumented feature in Mac OS: namely, the ability to save screen captures (typically grabbed with Command+Shift+4 or Command+Shift+3) in a variety of formats, instead of just the default PNG format (or PDF, if you're using Mac OS 10.5).

When you open Savescreenie, you're given a list of 10 formats to choose from (PDF, PNG, JPG, JP2, TIFF, TGA, BMP, PSD, PCT, and GIF), or you can reset the format to the default for the Mac OS you're using. The app also includes links to general information on the Web about each format. In addition to changing the default format for screenshots, Savescreenie lets you change the default save location and the default base file name (which is automatically extended with the date and time). That's it.

Many users will have no need for Savescreenie--and those who do might just use it once--but for anyone who works with screenshots a lot, SaveScreenie is a great little tool.

What's new in version 2.0

- corrected some (but not all) terrible shpellink mistakes


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GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.0
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Mac
Operating System
  • Mac OS X 10.5
  • Mac OS X
Additional Requirements
None
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1,679
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Change the format, name-prefix and location your Screenshots are saved to your liking.
The Mac always had a screenshot feature. Pressing 'cmd-shift-3' simultaneously would create a screenshot even in System 1. As of OSX, 'cmd-shift-4' will also create a screenshot, but with the added benefit that you can crop the area before OSX saves it. In Panther (10.3) and earlier your Mac saves screenshots in PDF format, in Snow Leopard (10.6) in PNG. In all versions, screenshots are saved to your 'Desktop' folder ((Home)/Desktop).If you had Unix knowhow, nerves of steel and the grim determination to do it mano-a-mano (whatever that is), you always could change file format and save location by entering a string of arcane commands (see ''Real' men do it via terminal' how do tough it out old-skool-like). Savescreenie is a frontend that does that for you - without worrying if 'killall SystemUIServer' really will only restart the windows server, or if it instead would go about murdering some other processes it doesn't like.