Reply #51: The "Print Screen" key is your friend... [View All]

[friendly_iconoclast]

In Windows, you can open a new document in Paint (or Paint.net, et al), paste your screengrab and save it
as a bitmap (*.bmp). Macs do something similar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_screen

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61544

Useful for saving interesting (or incriminating, or embarrassing) web pages what might get scrubbed later.

I've saved a lot of the crazier stuff I've found at FreeRepublic, and the page at GunGuys.com that claimed that
handguns hadn't been invented yet when the Bill of Rights was ratified. :wtf:

Got changed later, of course, but it proved that nothing *ever* gets completely scrubbed off the Internet, as long as
some alert reader saves it...