Platform: Apple Macintosh® line; requires MultiFinder®
Program Description:
ScreenSnap 2.2 is a shareware application that allows you to take a snapshot of any rectangular portion of the Macintosh® screen and save it in a window for later use. Once created, the snapshot can be inverted, moved, saved as a PICT file, copied to the Clipboard (and pasted into applications such as HyperCard®, MacDraw®, or WriteNow®), printed, or just left hanging around on-screen for reference. Because ScreenSnap uses PICT format for its files, it can read the output of most drawing programs, and be used as a PICT file viewer. ScreenSnap handles color, multiple monitors (including snapping across monitors), and multiple screensnaps. A screensnap can be dragged from any point in its window.
ScreenSnap is useful in many situations. For example:
• When reading electronic mail, an important message can be snapped for
later reference.
• When running a program, important results can be snapped and printed
instantly.
• When programming, screen output can be snapped and saved for later
reference, for user interface mock-up, or for pasting into a document.
The previous version of ScreenSnap was called Snap 2.1. (We changed the name for distinctiveness.) Snap 2.1 is currently in regular use at Stanford University, Apple Computer, Inc., J.P. Morgan & Co, Inc., Xerox Corp., and USA Today newspaper. ScreenSnap 2.2 adds the following to Snap 2.1:
• an expanded, scrolling Help screen, with an added button to print it,
• the ability to set the default screensnap size,
• a "splash" screen that automatically closes when the program
initialization is completed, so the user does not need to dismiss it,
• improved memory management (safer and more efficient),
• speed improvements, and
• response to the 'help' key on the extended keyboard.
It's also cheaper. We're asking for $11 shareware fee, versus the $17 we asked for Snap 2.1 .
Knowledge Source, Inc. is a new company, founded in March. The founders, Micheal Hewett and Vaughan Johnson, did research on software architectures and tools for Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University's Knowledge Systems Laboratory for a combined total of eight years. Our purpose as a company is to bring that AI technology to the Macintosh®. "Knowledge Source" is the name of the primary unit of knowledge representation in that technology. While developing our main product, we developed ScreenSnap 2.2 for our own use. We are releasing it as shareware because it is not in our main product line. We are asking users for a $11 shareware fee.
