Ondesoft Screen Capture for Mac is a screen capture utility that works on Mac OS X machines and provides a number of useful screen-grabbing features. The licensed version of Ondesoft Screen Capture for Mac costs $29.95. Ondesoft Screen Capture for Mac installs easily.
It is paid screen capture software, although it comes with 14 days free trial which is the right thing. And after using it if you like you can get this tool for the lifetime at 49.95 USD. Capture the menu by following the steps to capture the entire screen, capture a window (the menu is treated like a window), or capture a selected portion of the screen. Markup, share, and save After you take a screenshot, a thumbnail of the screenshot appears briefly in the lower-right corner of your screen.
The Ondesoft Screen Capture for Mac interface is clean and simple. A docked icon can expand to show the simple interface or you can shortcut the most commonly used capture processes. Icons let you choose whether to capture the full screen, a region, a menu, a window (scrolling and fixed), or all windows on the desktop. A timer can be invoked to allow you time to set the image up properly (such as displaying a pop-up menu). Once a screen capture has been obtained, an editing tool appears that lets you modify the image and save it, or you can have the files saved automatically to the desktop or clipboard. The editing tools are pretty good for a built-in editor, with adjustment of image and text overlays that should meet almost all requirements. You can save the output from Ondesoft Screen Capture for Mac in a number of formats. Some special effects like frames are included.
Ondesoft Screen Capture for Mac worked well in our testing. We could capture pretty much anything we saw on our screens, including very long scrolling windows, with ease. The editing tools were good enough for most of our needs. We had no problems with Ondesoft Screen Capture for Mac. Although the price is higher than most people will like, the tool works solidly.
Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Onde Screen Capture 1.16.4.
What do you need to know about free software?
About 6 months ago I was playing around on my iBook G4 and I found the option to change the format that Apple+Shift+4 saves in. For some odd reason I choose JPG-2000 (picture.jp2). Of course, now I can’t find how to change it back!
It’s not hard to change the format of a screen capture / screenshot made with the native Mac OS X capture utility, but you do have to be comfortable opening up your Terminal.app and typing in a command on the command line. Y’know, the Unix underneath the snazzy graphical interface. 🙂
Start by going to Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal.app and launching it. You’ll see something like this:
At this point you want to decide which format you’d like. Here are your choices:
- BMP (Windows bitmap)
- GIF
- JPEG 2000 (what you chose)
- JPEG
- PICT
- PNG
- PSD
- SGI
- TGA
- TIFF
Quite a few choices, as you can see!
Pick the one you like — I recommend PNG, which stands for progressive network graphic, as the best of both GIF and JPEG formats — and then type in the following command exactly as shown:
For example, if you did decide to use PNG format, you’d type:
Screen Capture App For Mac
Type that in and you won’t see anything change, but next time you take a screen shot (as documented here: how to get a screen capture on Mac OS X) you’ll have the image saved in the format you seek.