Screen capturing with SnagIt
I went to a presentation the other day where one of the PMs was showing off features of Speech Server using Powerpoint but in a fantastic interactive way: he had these screen shots all lined up one after another, with various parts of the screen highlighted to call attention to specific features. I thought wow, that must have been a lot of work.
I often use the Windows screen capture feature (push the "PrtScn" button on your keyboard) to place whatever's on my screen into the clipboard. OneNote makes that even easier: press Windows-S. Once it's in the clipboard, you can copy/paste to other apps like Powerpoint. But to do what he was doing would mean lots of additional steps: highlighting the correct section just right, carefully lining up each screen, etc. etc. -- yuk!
So I asked him and he told me he did it all in a software app called Snagit. "Best $40 I ever spent", he says.
