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Greenshot – A Free Open Source Screenshot Tool for Windows

Greenshot is yet another recently released free screenshot tool for windows. Key features of the Greenshot software include: Capture the entire or part of the screen Create annotations and highlights Save as a file, send to clipboard, or e-mail the captured file In other words, this software is not much different than other screencap programs [...]

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Capture and Record Video from Apple iPad

The new iPad by Apple, a supersized version of the iPod/iPhone, is a tablet computer that features a 9.7″ display with multitouch touch screen technology, running at a resolution of 1024×768. Recording the entire screen would come in very handy for development, troubleshooting, training videos, demos, podcasts, and even direct broadcasts from the iPad screen. [...]

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Epiphan Systems Releases PCI Express VGA Frame Grabber

In an unexpected move, Epiphan Systems unveiled its’ VGA2PCIe frame grabber today – a completely internal frame grabber based on the PCI Express bus. This move is unexpected because Epiphan specialized in external USB and Ethernet based devices. The VGA2PCIe is a fairly basic 1-channel VGA frame grabber. At the same time, VGA2PCIe offers [...]

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VGA Splitters Explained – Active or Passive?

What is a VGA Splitter? A VGA splitter is a device that duplicates a VGA signal. In other words, in accepts one VGA input, and clones it to multiple VGA outputs. VGA Splitters and Screen Capture VGA Splitters are often used in screen capture solutions where a VGA signal needs to be captured. Since a [...]

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Epiphan Systems Announces New Open Source Frame Grabber

A first in the market of high resolution video capture hardware, Epiphan Systems has announced a new open source frame grabber – Epiphan Lecture Recorder. According to the product page, shipping of the Lecture Recorder will start sometime in November. Epiphan Lecture Recorder, or ELR in short, has some promising features that, at the price [...]

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ScreenSnapr: Yet Another Screen Capture Utility Released in Beta

If you haven’t picked a favorite screen capture utility, here’s one that you may want to put on your list of apps to try, especially if you want to upload your captures to an FTP server. ScreenSnapr is a simple screen capture utility. The free version has no expiry date and lacks some of the [...]

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Shutter – A Tool for Linux Screenshots

Shutter is a fully-featured screenshot tool for Linux. Within one window, Shutter lets you take a screenshot of the screen, a window, or an area of the screen, edit it, and upload it to the web. Shutter is fully open source and, according to their website, has the following features: Features: take a screenshot of [...]

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Epiphan Systems first to announce compatibility with Windows 7

As the Windows 7 Release Candidate was made for free public downloading this week, manufacturers of hardware and software developers were able to test their software and hardware compatibility with Microsoft’s new operating system, slated to hit retail stores in October 2009. Epiphan Systems, the manufacturer of external frame grabbers, recording, and broadcasting solutions for [...]

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PrintScreen.Me: Extend your PrintScreen Functionality

Are you a frequent user of the PrintScreen key? Ever wanted to get more out of that button? Sure, you can paste from the PrintScreen clipboard to any image editing or annotation program of your choice, but now there is a free alternative that extends the PrintScreen button’s functionality and makes it easy to create [...]

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