Comments on: CyberWare: Free FastStone Capture 5.1 Screenshot Software

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:11:10 +0000

We actually mentioned that in a later post when it happened:

[tech.cybernetnews.com]

And also offered download mirros there for the last free version.

By: irkregent

irkregent — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:39:05 +0000

Checking on their download page today, I notice that FastStone Capture is now shareware, no longer free.
I found links to the last freeware version (5.3) here:
[aplusfreeware.com]
[fileforum.betanews.com]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:32:43 +0000

Yeah, the program is very incredible. Actually, a lacking of good screenshot utilities is one thing that stops me from running Linux more.

By: Fx Extension Guru

Fx Extension Guru — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:16:30 +0000

Wow! This is so nice, just installed and within second was able to use it. Love being able to save in png format!

By: Mark Smith

Mark Smith — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:35:57 +0000

I have been a long time MWSnap user but it has not been updated in a long time (I used Snag-It before MWSnap). I will have to try FastStone Capture, but I think it is worth noting that it is not free for commercial use (see http://www.faststone.org/order.htm). Shameless plug: my company offers Pearl Crescent Page Saver, which is a web page capture tool (for Firefox only, so it is a a more specialized tool). We have a free Basic edition and a Pro edition ($15 USD). For more information, see: http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:15:04 +0000

mouser wrote:

Congratulations to FastStone for an excellent product.
You might also want to try my own freeware Screenshot taking program, ScreenShot Captor:

I tried that program out when I did that review and it is pretty nice…but I found that it offered way too much for what I needed. All of the features that are crammed into it made it a little more difficult to do the simple tasks that people typically want to perform on screenshots.

Chris R. wrote:

Yeah Ryan, give the Image Viewer a try.
The product kicks butt!

I’ve been tinkering around with the Image Viewer tonight (Portable version…great for testing) and have to say that it is really nice. I think it might be a keeper.

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:36:34 +0000

Yeah Ryan, give the Image Viewer a try.

You can actually take screenshots from the image viewer itself as well. It does the same thing that FastStone Captor does, with one exception – FastStone Captor has an option to take a screenshot an entire webpage, including the unseen section that can only be seen by scrolling down. The Image Viewer doesn’t have that option.

Other than that, you can get by with just using the Image Viewer for both screenshots and editing and viewing images.

The product kicks butt!

By: mouser

mouser — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:36:45 +0000

Congratulations to FastStone for an excellent product.
You might also want to try my own freeware Screenshot taking program, ScreenShot Captor: [donationcoder.com]

It does things a bit differently so might be a case of different tools for different tasks

-mouser (Jesse)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:49:55 +0000

Indeed it is. I haven’t tried out the image viewer before but I might have to play with that, because I believe it was Chris in the last article I wrote who said that the image viewer is pretty amazing as well.

By: wipeout140

wipeout140 — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:25:21 +0000

Great Software