Capture and Upload Screenshots with GrabOut
Posted on March 19, 2010 at 7:10 am
GrabOut is a light and easy-to-use screenshot capture program that allows you to capture you screen or a part of it and then automatically uploads it to the GrabOut server. You will then be provided with a link that you can use to show the screenshot to your friends.
To get started, download the setup file here: http://www.grabout.com/Download.aspx
Open the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions. Once finished, you will be presented with this screen:
To grab a section of the screen, click on the green Grab now button.
Choose a section of the screen that you want to grab or capture.
The program will return a white screen with a message that tells you to wait for a moment as the program uploads the captured part of the screen. After a few seconds, the ‘Grab now’ message on the user interface will be replaced by a URL.
Click on the Go button and you will be taken to the capture’s GrabOut page.
GrabOut is a free software that is less than 500k in size. The program is convenient to use but it is rather limited in features. For one, it is more difficult to capture precisely what you want without a zoom feature that allows you to magnify the points where you want to start and end the capture. It is easy to get something that you might not have intended to capture.
This would have been fine if the program has some way for the user to edit the captured file before uploading it. But GrabOut does not.
Furthermore, the URLs are somewhat difficult to remember so you would have to store them somewhere like a text file for you to be able to retrieve them later. The GrabOut server and pages would have been better if it had a blog capability that makes it easy for you to track pages and come back to these at a future time.
A blog feature would also make it the graphical equivalent of social bookmarking sites.
Yet, as a free program, it is still very useful for a lot of situations. Like when you need to point out details on an online picture or artwork. Perhaps you are sharing a group picture, you can capture your crush and show it to your best friend.
And there is room for improvement, this is just phase 1 of a project that its publishers, OutPost11.com, promised to keep on developing and adding more features.
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