When you find something outrageous on the internet, immediately do a screenshot.

[Fire Walk With Me]

officer.com and now spectator have removed inflammatory postings after realizing that everyone in the world could read them. This is because blog owners and web site owners can see from where their web traffic originates. In terms of direct links back to the reader. If you link to a site, the site owner will see "http://www.democraticunderground.com/xxxxxx" right there in their hit directory, and can click that link and see the origin post/text just like we can. And edit or delete!

A PC may have a key above the numeric pad on the right saying "Print Screen". Pressing this captures what you see on your monitor, so first scroll to capture the most of what you can. Using a program such as Paint, open a new document and Paste, then Save, then repeat.

A Mac uses three simultaneous key depressions, edit and thanks, it's Command/Shift/3. You'll hear a camera shutter sound and a document "Picture1" will appear on your desktop. Please correct me where I'm wrong or out-of-date.

There are easier methods to doing this such as Saving a web site as an HTML document with all graphics so it's live on your hard disk, and other methods, but be prepared.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/08/1024352/-Conservative-Magazine-Brags-of-its-Agent-Provacateurs-Role-in-Provoking-Police-Action-in-DC-?via=siderec

[treestar]

1. Just tried, Mac Book Pro

Command shift 3

[Hissyspit]

5. Yes. "Apple" (Command) + Shift + 3 (or 4 if you want to capture a specific area...)

(It brings up a target cursor that allows you to grab a certain portion of the screen.)

Mac Treat #45: Four Ways take a Desktop Screenshot
By Ed

At least a couple times a month, I hear people ask how to take a screenshot of their Mac's desktop (Geoff...). The ability to easily take desktop screenshots is an "occasionally essential" feature of Mac OS X. Here are four easy, built-in ways to take screenshots on your Mac:

– To take a screenshot of your Mac's entire desktop, hold down Command-Shift-3 all at the same time. This records the entire desktop at full resolution. In Leopard and Tiger, the selection will be saved to your desktop as a PNG file. Panther saves the image as a PDF.

– To capture only a part of your desktop, hold down Command-Shift-4. The cursor will turn into a trigger.  Drag the trigger across the part of the screen you want to record and then release the mouse. If your Mac's sound is on, you will hear a snapshot sound.  In Leopard and Tiger, the selection will be saved to your desktop as a PNG file. Panther saves the image as a PDF.

– To take a screenshot of an individual application window (say an individual Safari window, or a single email, or single Preview image), hold down Command-Shift-4-spacebar. A camera icon will suddenly appear. You can rotate through application windows with this camera, until you land on the application window you wish to record. In Leopard, the selection will be saved to your desktop as a PNG file. In Leopard and Tiger, the selection will be saved to your desktop as a PNG file. Panther saves the image as a PDF.

All this screenshot fun is powered by the "Grab" application which is stored in your Mac's Utilities  folder. Additionally, it does something particularly cool: it allows you to take a timed screenshot.

– To take a timed screenshot, browse to your Applications folder, then browse to the Utilities folder contained within. Open the Grab application, then click "Capture" in the menu bar. At the bottom of the list is the option for "Timed Screen." The Timed Screen grab gives you a 10 second count-down to taking a screenshot.

Once a screenshot is saved to your desktop, you can open the PNG file in Preview or any image editing application to shrink its size or
perform other edits as needed. You can also drag the screenshot into an email, document, or IM to send to someone else.

Extra credit: Instead of saving files to your desktop, you can save a screenshot to your Mac's clipboard, to be pasted into an application
such as Photoshop, Word, or an email. To do this:

- Hold down Command-Control-Shift-3 to take a screenshot of the screen and save it to the clipboard.
- Hold down Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area, to take a screenshot of that area and save it to the clipboard
- Hold down Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window to take a screenshot of a specific window and save it to the clipboard

Extra-extra credit: Take screenshots within Preview! To do this, launch Preview, then navigate to File > Grab, where all the screenshot options above are also available by using the Grab submenu in the File menu.

[HipChick]

11. Use the Snipping Tools ..comes standard with Windows 7

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Use-Snipping-Tool-to-capture-screen-shots

[ejpoeta]

12. thanks! never knew about that. what a great thread. now I can capture

before they disappear stuff.

[Ohio Joe]

2. K&R - nt

[Coexist]

3. KNR

[Tesha]

4. On a PC, hold down "Alt" while you press Print-Screen and it will only capture the active window...

...instead of the entire screen. This is really handy
if you have a huge monitor or a series of monitors that
comprise one huge screen.

On the Mac, doing Command-Shift-3 (⌘-Shift-3) will
capture the whole screen whereas doing command-Shift-4
(⌘-Shift-4) will switch the normal mouse cursor (pointer
arrow) to a cross-cursor where you can then drag out a
"region" to be captured.

Tesha

[Turn CO Blue]

6. On my new PC laptop, I have to press two keys FN + PRTSC

so experiment now if not sure - learn NOW how to do a screen capture and how to drop it or paste it into another program (Word, Paint, whatever) so you'll be ready

[spooky3]

7. On my MacBook Pro, the file created is called "Screen shot..." rather than "Picture1".

[Hissyspit]

15. I think that is a difference between Lion and Leopard. nt

[spooky3]

19. ah, thanks, I have Snow Leopard.

[Hissyspit]

20. Or maybe Leopard and Snow Leopard.

I went straight from Leopard to Lion (upgraded to Snow Leopard for one afternoon, because you had to to get the App Store to download Lion!)

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Thank you everyone for the great information. It's our responsibility!

[FarLeftFist]

9. I always take screenshots of stupid things said on the internet. Like this A-HOLE

[Warren DeMontague]

13. That level of threatening really ought to warrant a visit by a LEO. Unfortunately

the Feds seem much more interested in dragging cancer grannies off to prison for getting high.

[NYC_SKP]

10. iPad, iPhones: Simultaneously press the power and home buttons.

:P

[canetoad]

14. Or, if you are a Firefox user

Grab an add-on called RefControl. You can control what a site owner sees when you link via another site - ie. the referring site can be blank or you can use something creative like fbi.gov or fox.com.

Edit to add:
There is an excellent free, easy to use screen capture tool - Fastone capture. Last freeware version here, about 2/3 way down: http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page4.html

[OneGrassRoot]

18. Cool. thanks. :) n/t

[napoleon_in_rags]

16. Tinyurl.com? No that doesn't work. Oh, here we go, nullrefer.com

Somebody needs to make a service to hide referer information in the http header.

How about this:
http://www.ericgiguere.com/tools/http-header-viewer.html">show headers

Yeah, that hides it. You can see DU without using nullrefer.com
show headers

http://nullrefer.com/

So putting your links in there can hide that they are coming from DU. May be other services.

[Scuba]

17. One of these should "fit" your system...

http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=snipping+tool

[Fire Walk With Me]

21. Monday Kick.

[emcguffie]

22. I have a laptop a few years old with -- god, I can't even remember.

If it's not Windows, it's -- ? That other operating system that Microsoft came out with?

Anyway, I've tried control, shift, alt, command and fn with the print screen key and gotten nothing. Any help?

Edit to add: It's Vista. Sorry I couldn't remember that.

So, I can't figure out how to screen capture.

Any help? Thanks.