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Take more screenshots (2022)

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Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by simonw »

Aperocky wrote: post #57

> For example, my oldest files were made in Microsoft Word on an iMac G3 running Mac OS 9. I can open them in a modern word processor, and they look similar – but it’s not the same. Some of the fonts and graphics are missing, and I don’t know where I’d find replacements. > It’s even harder for an undocumented side project I abandoned years ago. Having the code isn’t the same as a working application. The author's sol…

Good luck compiling an iOS app you built and last touched in 2012 against a modern version of XCode.

You'd need to keep an entire old, un-upgraded Mac around just to have a chance of doing that without MAJOR engineering work!

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by 19h »

thejarren wrote: post #4

I take screenshots all the time, and sync them to iCloud so I can access them immediately on my phone/iPad. I also back up previous years of screenshots, I think I have back to 2015 right now. But one thing that I've been keeping my eye on as well (and used for a month) is https://www.rewind.ai/ which records everything that happens on your M1/M2 mac screen and is immediately searchable. Just like Alex says here "The…

Actually came here to mention rewind, too.

It’s simply put a groundbreaking game changer for me.

Be it finding text in conversations, using it to recall the face of an applicant when their name doesn’t ring a bell, find code, find text in websites you visited, going back to make sure your eyes didn’t trick you, …

I recently started to enable closed captions in all applicant interviews so I can search for specific terms I recall after the fact.

Truly amazing.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by johnnyApplePRNG »

I made my first website on geocities and it kills me that I cannot for the life of me find a record of it any longer.

It was a website that "sold" replica/counterfeit watches.

I was enthralled with them as a child for some reason. I knew they were popular items on the fledgling internet so I created a webpage for them on geocities and setup an email address to contact if you would like to purchase one.

I had lots of interested parties who wanted to buy the watches but unfortunately my parents would not front a 12 year old the cash required to purchase them in bulk from the shady internet supplier I had found. Probably a smart move on their part.

Fun times!

I ended up purchasing a few really high quality replicas when I visited China decades later as an adult.

I miss the early internet.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by _8j50 »

doerinrw wrote: post #6
_8j50 wrote: post #3

I actually am in a position where I need to take a screenshot but haven't found any tool on linux that has the right UX like macos builtin screenshot or on windows, greenshot and lightshot. I want to press printscr or some shortcut and immediately screenshot an area of the screen or the whole screen and by default have it saved to a numerically incrementing files under a folder I configure and not have to close or in…

I think this is highly dependent on your distro (and comfort with the CLI but I'm taking that for granted on HN) but I found the gnome screenshot to be very simple, quick, and effective. Piping a hotkey to a CLI command is presumably easy, and after 5s of googling I found the guide below for Gnome. Not exactly fancy and I haven't used this specific tool recently enough to say whether it meets all your requirements ex…

Thanks, will check it out, my main problem with gnome-* is the package pulling in gnome deps into my "minimal" lxqt environment.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by _8j50 »

cwaffles wrote: post #17
_8j50 wrote: post #3

I actually am in a position where I need to take a screenshot but haven't found any tool on linux that has the right UX like macos builtin screenshot or on windows, greenshot and lightshot. I want to press printscr or some shortcut and immediately screenshot an area of the screen or the whole screen and by default have it saved to a numerically incrementing files under a folder I configure and not have to close or in…

I can recommend flameshot[0]. It has good editing tools built-in, low dependencies, and is ergonomic. [0] https://flameshot.org/

Thanks, from the demo gifs on that page, this is my favorite so far.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by naet »

I made some art zines in an older version of MS Word that I saved, the source files for, but when I went to open and print them years later the formatting and images were completely destroyed even though Word is supposed to be backwards compatible.

I thought the .doc file would be a good way to save it, since it was closest to the source and I could edit things later if I needed. I ended up having better luck when I could find the rendered PDFs or rasterized images instead. They were less editable, but far more stable for archiving and returning to after long periods of time.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by _8j50 »

RheingoldRiver wrote: post #31
_8j50 wrote: post #3

I actually am in a position where I need to take a screenshot but haven't found any tool on linux that has the right UX like macos builtin screenshot or on windows, greenshot and lightshot. I want to press printscr or some shortcut and immediately screenshot an area of the screen or the whole screen and by default have it saved to a numerically incrementing files under a folder I configure and not have to close or in…

I use Sharex on Windows and I don't think there's any better tool, so I searched for "run sharex on linux" and there is indeed a guide - https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/6531 - maybe you can get it to work? I believe it can do all of the things you want. Certainly area capture, remembered area capture, fullscreen capture, all bound to different hotkeys. Mine saves with the name = the timestamp but you can prob…

Thanks, looks featureful. But I really need it very stable so running it in wine is a dealbreaker, since I already have a wine setup I have to fumble with a lot to get different windows executables to behave in certain ways.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

simonw wrote: post #71
Aperocky wrote: post #57

> For example, my oldest files were made in Microsoft Word on an iMac G3 running Mac OS 9. I can open them in a modern word processor, and they look similar – but it’s not the same. Some of the fonts and graphics are missing, and I don’t know where I’d find replacements. > It’s even harder for an undocumented side project I abandoned years ago. Having the code isn’t the same as a working application. The author's sol…

Good luck compiling an iOS app you built and last touched in 2012 against a modern version of XCode. You'd need to keep an entire old, un-upgraded Mac around just to have a chance of doing that without MAJOR engineering work!

What about a Virtual Machine? I've found VMWare Fusion does a good job with Mac guests. Snow Leopard works quite well. You could even do it from a non-Mac host if you don't mind applying well-known patches to VMWare.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by pabs3 »

johnnyApplePRNG wrote: post #73

I made my first website on geocities and it kills me that I cannot for the life of me find a record of it any longer. It was a website that "sold" replica/counterfeit watches. I was enthralled with them as a child for some reason. I knew they were popular items on the fledgling internet so I created a webpage for them on geocities and setup an email address to contact if you would like to purchase one. I had lots of…

Geocities was reasonably well archived, do you remember the URL?

https://archive.org/web/geocities.php

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