Screen Capture Tools (Online, for Mozilla and for Chrome)

We have so many things on the internet that we wanna store as an image but not a page and some of us might not the way to do it. So, in this post, I will be discussing about various sites, plug-ins for Mozilla and extensions for Chrome that help you take a screen shot. These are very helpful and are easy to handle.

Fire Shot - Plug-in for Mozilla
                               This is a very handy plug-in or add-on available in Mozilla and I assure you this will never let you down, not in any case. You can do almost a complete editing of a picture like annotating, adding watermark, highlight particular text or area, crop, edit, draw, blur and a lot more.

How to get this

• Visit the Fire Shot page on Mozilla
• Click on 'Add to Firefox'.
• Then, click on the install
• If it doesn't work as soon as you install it, go to add-ons tab (ctrl+shift+A).
• There under extensions, click 'Enable' beside Fire Shot.
• It asks to restart to Firefox, do as it says.

Now you're done with the installation of Fire Shot.

Working

•  Right Click on the page that you wish to capture, then click on Fire Shot.
• It provides you options like Capture Entire Page, Capture Visible Area and Capture Selected Area.

Difference between Capture Entire Page and Capture Visible Area : The difference between these two is quite simple. If you choose Capture Entire Page, it capture the page from top to bottom, and If you choose Capture Visible Area, it captures only the area of page that is visible on your monitor i.e., the area of the page that you're in.

•  And, when you click on any of above three options, you are given options like edit, save, save as pdf etc.
• Select the option that you want. After that, you are allowed to select an area of the page if you choose Capture Selected Region or captures automatically if you choose any of the other two options.

Editing and Storage
           If you choose 'Edit' option, you can get a wide range of features to edit your pic. Now, we go in detail about the options and their functions.

• You are provided with basic options like export, upload, copy, mail and print. Now, when I say 'Upload', you might get a doubt, "Where does the image gets uploaded?" There's a site called easycaptures.com. You can create an account an upload screen captures and you pictures to the site or you can upload anonymously.
• You are given a hell lot of options through which you can crop, add a shape, draw anything you wish to, highlight an area, add a pointer, add a text, add another image etc.
• The features that I like the most in this add-on is Invert and Glow. With these features, you can highlight everything from an image to a text.

Now, here's the drawbacks of this add-on. The sound effect when you capture is a bit irritating. You cannot use Mozilla when the Fire Shot editor is running.

Here's the demo given by the Fireshot.

Awesome Screenshot : Capture and Annotate
                           This is an extension in Google Chrome that helps you capture. This extension provides most of the options, but not all, provided by Fireshot.

How to get this

• Go to Awesome Screenshot page on Google Chrome.
• Click on 'Add to Chrome' and then 'Click Install'
• After installing the extension, you get a logo (camera lens) to the right top on the screen.

Working

• Click on the logo and you are given three options Capture Entire Page, Capture Visible Area and Capture Selected Area. Choose as you wish according to your need.
• After capturing you are given options that allow you to edit picture. Options are almost similar to that of Fireshot.

Editing and Storage
                             Editing with this extension is easier and, like I said, its almost similar to that of Fireshot. You can crop, annotate, draw lines etc. With this extension you can highlight an area in the picture but not like the way you can in Fireshot. The highlight feature in Fireshot is kind of more effective.
 
                              You can store your screen captures temporarily in awesomescreenshot.com and that gives you a link through which you can share your screenshot. Or you can save it on diggo.com or Google Drive.

Online Screen Capture Tool - Web Screenshots
                                     This in an online screen capture that helps you capture. It's quite simple to use. You give it an URL and it takes a snap of the page and gives a link to download the screenshot.

How to Get it

• You need not install any extension or add-on. You just go to the website and provide the URL of the page that you want to take a snap of.

Editing and Storage

• You neither have options to edit the picture nor to store it online.

There are too many drawbacks for this online tool. First thing is you can't capture a particular area on the page. You can't use this for sties like Facebook. For instance, if you wanna take a picture of your homepage in facebook (the URL of your homepage after logging in is www.facebook.com) and you provide the URL, it provides the screenshot of the Login Page in Facebook. The same case is with the G-mail, if you want to take a snap of an email and you provide the URL, it gives you the snap of Gmail login page. And the drawbacks go on.

So, I'm done now. I've given you an add-on for Mozilla, Extension For Chrome, An online tool for Screen Capture. Had any problems with these? Feel free to ask.

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Facebook Open Graph Redirect - Protects your privacy

Most of us use a lot of applications in Facebook. In fact, they are the means of passing time if there's no one online. But before using any app, we gotta do a lot of things that the app asks you to, accept a lot of things and then provide access to our personal information, which is the worst part. Who would like to do all these just for the sake of using an app? And if you install, then when you try opening an applications, you are redirected to several locations, and end up somewhere else. Its kind of irritating. Apart from these issues, this whole process is time consuming. And this forces you to quit the app even though you wanna use it. Even though a person has got hell lot of patience and continues with the process till the end and ends up being successful in using the app, his timeline will be filled with irrelevant posts. I have a good news for all such people who wanna use apps without any of these problems. So, here I go.

Facebook Open Graph Redirect

Here I come with an application called 'Facebook Open Graph Redirect'. It is a Google Chrome Plug-in. So, it doesn't work with other browsers. It allows users to read content shared by applications that enable social sharing. This plug-in allows Facebook users to read the content that is shared by their friends through Facebook enabled applications without going through whole process. This app works with most the Facebook apps that are linked with Washington Post, Yahoo etc.

Firefox Users? Don't worry

Are you a Firefox User? Don't worry because developers have created a similar plug-in for Firefox Browser as well.

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Customize Facebook Chat

Since the launch of Facebook chat, no major change was made. Many of us have been waiting for some cool features in FB chat where we can send messages with a new font, change size, move the chat box around etc. Many users are looking for other alternatives like Skype, Yahoo, Windows Live etc. But managing several messengers at a time is hell of a work. The major problem is with the passwords, cause you keep on forgetting them. But wait, here's a solution for our problem. This allows you to enjoy fundamental features that are part of any chat box with a simple and quick process where all you need to do is to download an extension and start chatting with your friends on FB.

This extension is provided by Google. And that means that you need to have a Google Chrome browser already installed in your PC. Log in to your FB account, and then visit Google Chrome Webstore. Search for 'Pretty Facebook Chat'. This is an extension that provides you many features if used with Google Chrome.

Download : Pretty Facebook Chat
Here's tutorial for you.

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Uninstall MyStatus Bar

Now, I guess, many of you are trying to figure out a way to uninstall MyStatus Bar. So I thought of making a post and a tutorial of that. So here I go.

The process is pretty simple. It hardly takes 5min.

1. Go To Google Chrome Webstore
2. Open MyStatus Bar tab
3. Click on the delete (bin) button.
4. Then click on Uninstall.

Now, you're done. Simple, ain't it?

Didn't get me even now, here's the video tutorial

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Install MyStatus Bar in Chrome

Well, I know, many of you spend your leisure time through Facebook, and waiting for messages and notifications from friends. Even I do. Who doesn't? FB indeed is a great tool to stay in touch, and many people log on only to communicate with their friends. But who has the time to wait on FB for friends to appear or check their FB periodically? Using browser extension you can now get FB notifications, outside FB, leaving you free to browse through internet and do you work. That extension is MyStatusBar

MyStatusBar

MyStatusBar is a browser extension avaiable for Chrome and Firefox, since those the two most popular web browsers. Its a useful little tool that will give you real-time information abour your FB updates, so you will see new messages or notifications as soon as you receive them.

Video Tutorial

Installing MyStatusBar

Go to the MyStatusBar Download Page on Chrome Web Store, and then click on the Add To Chrome Button on the top-right. Your download will start in a few seconds, and the installation will start automatically. Your browser might need to restart for the changes to come into effect.

Once installed, you will be redirected, and will see a bar at the bottom of your browser. Click on Login To Facebook button.

Now a Window will open which will ask confirmation for logging into FB. Next, you will see a list of permissions that MyStatusBar seeks in order to function. Click on Allow, and you're all set.

Now, you'll see a bar at the bottom of your browser. This will show all your messages, friend requests, notifications, just like you see them on your FB header. No matter what website you're on, this bar will always be present with you.

You can also see a mini feed from your latest news feed, and you can scroll up and down to see what your friends are up to. There's also a search bar where you can search FB without even opening the website. But the annoying part is it has an ad spot too. There's a 'x' button that will let you minimize the bar if you want to view the full website you're on.

Have fun...:D

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