I spent so much time in school you would think I would be glad to be done with it… and I was, for a while anyway. Yet after a few months of school free existence, in the evening I often found myself picking up text books or reference manuals.

I’ve come to realize, that I greatly enjoy the act of learning and gaining knowledge. So, I’ve enrolled in a couple of graduate classes in Aeronautics, just because I find it to be a fascinating subject.

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Arrr, ye scruvy dogs! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Today only me ol’ blog will be readin’ most piratey!

Shortcuts

• Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard
• The following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):
  • Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
  • Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
  • Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

Formats

Different versions of Mac OS X have different formats for screenshots.

The default screenshot format can be changed, by opening Terminal (located at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and typing in:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format
killall SystemUIServer

Where image_format is one of jpg, tiff, pdf, png, bmp or pict (among others). If you omit the second line, you will need to log out and in again for the change to take effect.

Grab and Preview
Instead of using the keyboard shortcuts above, screenshots can be taken by using the Grab application included with Mac OS X. It is located at /Applications/Utilities/Grab. Some versions of the Preview application have an option under the File menu to take a screenshot.

From the Terminal
The screencapture command in the Terminal can also be used to capture screenshots, and is useful for scripts. Here is an example.

screencapture -iW ~/Desktop/screen.jpg

After years of schooling, I finally graduated from Harvard in May 2011! Hurray! You’d think after all of these years I would want to take a break and relax, but I find my brain seems to be stuck in “learning” mode, so I’ve decided to try and learn Japanese so I can be a proper anime otaku, lol!