I have been using Mac Book Pro for last few months and I am in love with my Mac Book Pro. Today I noticed that there’s no print screen key in my Mac Book Pro and I Googled it and found that there are some short cut keys to capture the whole screen or some portion of the screen.

Capturing Full Screen in Mac OS

Follow the following steps to accomplish this simple task in your Mac Book Pro or any Mac OSX powered machine.

• Open the screen that you want to capture or print screen
• Press Apple Key ⌘ + Shift + 3 and release all at once
• You’re done with capturing the whole screen, look for a file on your desktop with a name starting with Screen shot followed by date and time of capture

Capturing Portion of Screen in Mac OS

Follow the instruction given below to capture some portion of screen

• Open your desired screen you want to capture
• Hold Apple Key + Shift Key + 4 and release all keys
• Move your mouse and look at the mouse cursor, it looks similar to plus sign (+)
• Click and Drag your mouse to select the portion and click again to complete the selection
• You are done, You capture has been saved on your screen with a new name followed by  new date and time

Capturing any Application’s Opened Window in Mac OS

Instructions to capture application’s window are given below

• Open the desired application window which you want to capture
• Press and hold Apple key + Shift Key + 4 and release them
• Notice the mouse cursor changed to plus sign (+)
• Press space bar once and notice the mouse cursor changed to camera
• Cick on the application window you want to capture
• Done, check the capture image on your desktop

Other Options using Grab

If you want to use some other options to capture your screen including scheduled capture, you can use the built in capturing utility Grab in your Mac Osx. Just type grab in search box given in top right corner of your mac.

Happy Macing with your Mac!

[Via TechieCorner]

I think almost all the iPod Touch lovers and owners already know that Apple has finally released iPod Touch firmware 2.0 for download with the help of iTunes. All iPod users can upgrade to iPod Touch Firmware 2.0 for one time fee of $9.25, however Apple iPhone users can get this lated update free of cost.

You can follow the instruction below to get this upgrade free of cost and soon after upgrade you will see an updated iPod Touch firmware 2.0

1. Download iTunes from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
2. Hold down shift key and click restore
3. Select the iPod1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw
4. Enjoy!

the firmware iPod1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw can be downloaded from any of the mirrors listed below. It is surely a complete and tested iPod Touch Firmware 2.0 (5A347)

http://tinyurl.com/ipodtouch-firmware-2-part1

http://tinyurl.com/ipodtouch-firmware-2-part2

http://tinyurl.com/ipodtouch-firmware-2-part3

Join all the above parts using this software

another mirror can be found here: http://uploaded.to/file/ih0z65/iPod1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

When you have download the firmware on your computer, follow the instruction above to upgrade to iPod Touch firmware 2.0 absolutely free.

Bloggers all around the world displays some facts and stats in terms of subscribers, visitors and hits to show their popularity on their blogs. Twitter Count is another option to show poplarity. It is very much similar to feedburner’s feed count which shows total number of subscribers to your RSS feeds. With Twitter Count you can display number of followers following you to announce your popularity.

You can easily add TwitterCounter to your blog and tell everybody how popular you are. Copy and paste simple code, change the username, insert it in your blog sidebar and you are done.  You can choose your favourite counter style from the list.

Most of the people, even some computer geeks thinks that YouTube videos are low quality. I also think that YouTube vides are notorious about their low quality, but even then it is the most popular and most trafficked video streaming site on the planet.

Google OS recently discovered a tip about how to watch higher resolution videos on YouTube and I thought I should share it too. This secret trick is very easy. just append &fmt=18 at the end of youtube video you want to watch and enjoy the high resolution.

Keep in mind that high quality videos need more bandwidth and higher internet speed, so watch high quality only if you have excellent high speed internet connection.

Here is a complete example of the usage:

Lets say you are watching a video on youtube and the URL in your browser’s address bar is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqOcqq_f0bM

To watch high quality video, just append &fmt=18 like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqOcqq_f0bM&fmt=18

You will definitely feel the difference in quality