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How to take a screenshot

161 points by anderzole 16y ago

dlsspy 16y ago
This really annoyed me. I took screenshots on my iPhone regularly to share things with people. I can't do that on my Android phone without rooting it (at least, according to the screenshot apps in the market).
- russell_h 16y ago
  I've had the exact same experience. Admittedly, I was usually taking screenshots of the iPhone to share amusing UI bugs... but still.
chops 16y ago
Non-savvy users really get lost at how screenshots work. I have a buddy who's a programmer at publishing house, specializing in niche magazines, and they deal regularly with non-savvy older users. He's got this story about one such customer who was complaining that something wasn't working on the website and when asked to send a screenshot he proceeded to: 1) Press PrintScreen 2) Paste it into Word 3) Print it out, and finally, 4) Fax it to the company. I thought that was kind of related, and rather humorous.
- thinkbohemian 16y ago
  I REGULARLY receive photos from cameras of someones computer screen when asked to supply a "screen shot". It was kinda funny the first few times...now its just sad.
  - fforw 16y ago
    One time, my kernel was crapping out and endlessly printing stuff I couldn't read because it was scrolling WAY to fast and ctrl+s did not work either, so I photographed my screen to be able to read what the kernel was trying to tell me (hardware defect).
    - duncanj 16y ago
      Once, we had an issue with a single board computer that seemed like a hardware issue so we called support, and they wanted the output of a logical analyzer. Unfortunately, we didn't have an interface for our old analyzer, and so we set up a webcam to show the analyzer screen to the support guy over NetMeeting. It was kind of funny, but worked great.
  - ams6110 16y ago
    The best one I saw, though not really a screenshot, was a photo on Craigslist... someone had used his cell phone to take a photo of a car he was selling, then used a web cam to take a photo of the cell phone screen, and then uploaded that.
  - slapshot 16y ago
    The sad thing is that it's not intuitive to non-geeks -- not that they are creative and find ways to make it happen. "Cntl-PrintScr" is not an intuitive command to most people. Pressing the shutter button on a digital camera is. Maybe this is a larger UI point than the author intended -- I'm not sure that the PC, Mac, or iPhone commands are the best way to solve the problem.
- deleted 16y ago
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timcederman 16y ago
I am surprised at how useful what a seemingly superfluous feature is on the iPhone. I often find myself grabbing screenshots of things and sending it to friends, Twitter and Facebook. My location on a map. An amusing article I just saw. An SMS conversation. It's not obvious, but once you know how to do it, it's very handy and I'm surprised it's so difficult with Android.
- awolf 16y ago
  I love screenshots from the iPad maps application imported into SketchBook or some other drawing app. Very useful for whipping up driving directions to forward to a friend.
  - thwarted 16y ago
    Why wouldn't you just forward them a link to the driving directions page? You lose all the functionality of the awesome Internet we have in 2010 by sending someone a static map. Anyone who can receive that would be in front of a computer connected to the internet, or if they are on the go, would be on a smart phone with internet access so they could look it up themselves. Might as well just carry around a paper map. Unless you want to be a doormat like that guy in the commercials whose friends call him to ask him for driving directions and movie show times because your phone lets you browse the web while you're in a call at the same time. Let your friends look up their own directions.
    - sounddust 16y ago
      I can't speak for the others, but I have lots of friends who have phones with no data plans (probably 90% of my friends, in fact). I can't send links to their phones, but I can send them screenshots via MMS. It's come in handy on many occasions.
    - hrabago 16y ago
      I typically send all three. I send the link for the driving directions, I send my own summary which makes sense to local people, and a screenshot of a map, with my scribbles on there. "There's this landmark, here's where you turn, this is Xyz Lane which you'll see on your left just before the street you turn into, so be ready when you see it, here's our house on the left. If you're coming from the south instead of west, this is where you'll be coming from." As far as I know, no one's ever gotten lost this way.
aptimpropriety 16y ago
Windows 7 actually comes installed with a Microsoft-developed 'Snipping Tool', which allows the user to drag a semi-transparent box (or free form, or windows size, or full screen) over whatever part of the screen the user so desires. You can annotate, paste, or save the image wherever you like! /end campus rep plug
- andrewtj 16y ago
  Similarly OS X 10.4 Tiger and later bundle a utility called Grab which does selection, window, screen and timed captures.
  - rimantas 16y ago
    Or you can use cmd+shift+4 instead of cmd+shift+3. This allows you to select a region on the screen or you can press spacebar, mouse over the window you want to copy and press enter.
    - NathanKP 16y ago
      I don't think there is a keyboard shortcut for a timed screen grab, however, which is what I use most often.
      - andrewtj 16y ago
        As far as I know you're right. Depending on what you're doing, Automator or the command line screencapture tool combined with a shell script or QuickSilver might be worth looking at to speed up your workflow.
    - vault_ 16y ago
      You can also hit 'space' after cmd+shift+4 to get a little camera icon that takes a screenshot of only the window you click on. It works for any window, the desktop, the menu bar, any menu, and interestingly enough: all of the icons sitting on your desktop independent of anything else.
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sandGorgon 16y ago
Question - is there a bug for this on Android ? if not, I suggest someone file it (I dont have Android.. yet).
- veeti 16y ago
  http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6547&q=screenshot&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6547&q...
- papachito 16y ago
  http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=152 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=152
Tichy 16y ago
I hate the way it is done on OS X, too. I can't remember keyboard shortcuts I only use every couple of months. Usually I use The Gimp for screenshots. Anyway, this thing should be easy to fix for Android.
- sjs 16y ago
  You can always change the keyboard shortcuts to something else if you don't like Cmd-Shift-3 and Cmd-Shift-4.
  - nailer 16y ago
    My prob with using a Mac for he last two years is instructions that use the alt and cmd keys (which are labelled on my MacBook keyboard as alt and cmd) as something else - one is called 'option', the other 'apple' but there is no key labelled either 'option' or 'apple' on the MacBook.
    - culturestate 16y ago
      The option/apple keys are the alt key - until a couple years ago, there was no 'alt' and the option/apple key was called 'open apple option' by most people.
      - duskwuff 16y ago
        Wait, what? That's completely wrong. There are four modifiers on a Mac keyboard: command, option, control, and shift. (Fn isn't a real modifier, but it likes to hang out with them on laptop keyboards.) Option is also sometimes labeled "alt". Command usually has a four-leaf-clover symbol on it, and sometimes also has an Apple logo on it. You might also hear it called "open-Apple" by people who remember the Apple II, which had open-Apple and closed-Apple keys which mapped to the joystick buttons. All four of these modifiers have been on all of Apple's keyboards for over 20 years. (Control, the newest one on the scene, appeared on the Apple Extended Keyboard in 1987.)
      - nailer 16y ago
sramov 16y ago
grep ss[fw] .bashrc alias ssf="import -frame -depth 8 -border ~/pic/ss/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`.png" alias ssw="import -window root -depth 8 ~/pic/ss/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`.png" Results run through OptiPNG. Other than capturing windows and full screen shots, it would also be nice to have some KISS solution for doing selections, like in Mac OS X.
- petdog 16y ago
  import does just that, if you drop the "-window root" argument
  - sramov 16y ago
    Huh, thanks! Will sure add 'sss' (selection) alias :)
hiroprot 16y ago
I find it interesting that this is so easy on iPhone and so hard on Android. For some reason, I think of taking screenshots as a poweruser feature (which might or might not be the case), and that Android would make it easy, while Apple wouldn't make it available to regular users. I wonder what the thinking behind those decisions were. Did his Steveness demand the easy screenshot functionality to capture UI feedback on the go?
- jsz0 16y ago
  It is interesting considering the limited number of physical button combinations on the iPhone. It was definitely more than an after-thought. They introduced the feature in iPhone OS 2.0 at the same the SDK was released so I'm guessing they intended it mostly for developers then realized it was pretty handy for all sorts of things.
- jrockway 16y ago
  Apple wouldn't make it available to regular users. It lets you market Apple's product for free. Of course they are going to allow that.
- mbrubeck 16y ago
  It is a bit of a power user feature, but it's important to two groups of power users in particular: reviewers and developers. These are two groups that it pays to help. Apple certainly doesn't make third-party developers its first priority, but they are decent at helping developers when it doesn't get in the way of Apple's desired user experience. One way they do this is by providing good developer tools and workflows.
- bradleyland 16y ago
  "that Android would make it easy, while Apple wouldn't make it available to regular users" What would ever give you that impression? Before I went full-geek (I wasn't always this way), I considered myself a Windows power user. The first thing I ever published online (back in the nineties) was a short article titled "How To Be a Power User". It included what I thought was an exhaustive list of shortcuts that I used in my everyday computing life. I couldn't understand how other people got by using their mouse for everything. I once used my Windows PC for three weeks without a mouse, just so I could force myself to learn more keyboard shortcuts. I was in to it. Fast forward 15 years and I'm a Mac convert. OS X contains a lot more "power user" features than most people would think. Your perception of a platform has a lot to do with familiarity, and I'd argue that the view summarized as "Apple doesn't make tools for power users" is wholly based in a lack of familiarity of their products.
davidw 16y ago
Being a site for hackers, and given that Android's source code is available, this is actually a challenge rather than just another internet dick-waving contest, right? Edit. Like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406553 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406553
JMiao 16y ago
i don't know many "normals" that take desktop screenshots...but i get your point.
ntoshev 16y ago
I did't know how to take a screenshot on the iPhone but this would be useful. So I searched for other iPhone tips I'm missing, and here is a pretty nice collection: http://iphonetoolbox.com/news/ultimate-list-of-iphone-tips-and-tricks/ http://iphonetoolbox.com/news/ultimate-list-of-iphone-tips-a...
obama012369 16y ago
This is my very favorite a shopping site: http://wowcool.org http://wowcool.org The website wholesale for many kinds of fashion shoes, like the nike,jordan,prada,adidas, also including the jeans,shirts,bags,hat and the decorations. All the products are free shipping, and the the price is competitive, and also can accept paypal payment.,after the payment, can ship within short time. free shipping competitive price any size available they do wholesale and retail! All are extremely CHEAP: http://wowcool.org http://wowcool.org their products： jordan air max oakland raiders. Ed Hardy AF JUICY POLO Bikini. Christan Audigier BIKINI JACKET. gstar coogi evisu true jeans. coach chanel gucci LV handbags. coogi DG edhardy gucci t-shirts. CA edhardy vests.paul smith shoes. jordan dunk af1 max gucci shoes. EDhardy gucci ny New Era cap. coach okely Adidas CHANEL DG Sunglass. Worthy of my recommendation, go and see: http://wowcool.org http://wowcool.org
yembi 16y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12985/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12985/ Screenshot pimp: I use the non toolbar buttons in the options. It lets you select the area in the browser you want to capture. Works in mac, too (but not sure about other linux distros)
Keyframe 16y ago
Droid Does? What is this, copywriter was a fan of "sega does what nintendon't"?
- jokermatt999 16y ago
  That was the Droid's major marketing campaign, actually. Blame the writers of the ad campaign, not the image maker.
  - Keyframe 16y ago
    Sorry. I wasn't clear enough, I actually meant that as a blame towards ad copy, not the image itself.
rodh257 16y ago
Am I the only one that thinks this really isn't a big deal, some apple fan (judging by the guys twitter) making a big deal over nothing [Edit: renamed to fan.]
- ellyagg 16y ago
  You're right that it's not that big of a deal, but downvoted for using "apple fanboy".
- orangecat 16y ago
  It isn't a big deal, but it's a fair shot at a silly limitation of Android. Of course it's noteworthy exactly because it's an exception to the usual pattern; compare using USB storage or Pandora on Android vs iPhone.
volomike 16y ago
Oh wow. That sucks. Here I am pumped about the future of Android and I didn't realize this. Google, please fix -- I know you read Hacker News.
crocowhile 16y ago
I find lack of universal copy (as in copy and paste) more disturbing. I wish I was able to select and copy text in just any application, or at least in browser and mail!
- drivebyacct 16y ago
  You can select text in Email, Corp Email and the Browser. Gmail has copy/paste in Froyo.
  - crocowhile 16y ago
    How? I have a nexus one running Froyo, I cannot select any text in browser/email. The only text I can select and copy is the one in text fields.
    - drivebyacct 16y ago
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FePeTdNswcE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FePeTdNswcE It's right under the "More" menu entry man, dunna how you didn't look there. Also, lmgtfy.
      - crocowhile 16y ago
        my bad. thanks. I was assuming a feature like that should activate by holding on the text, though.
        drivebyacct 16y ago
        I wish it worked like that. That way you wouldn't have to wait for a developer to enable copy/paste in the app, it would be there by default.
obama012369 16y ago
This is my very favorite a shopping site: http://wowcool.org http://wowcool.org The website wholesale for many kinds of fashion shoes, like the nike,jordan,prada,adidas, also including the jeans,shirts,bags,hat and the decorations. All the products are free shipping, and the the price is competitive, and also can accept paypal payment.,after the payment, can ship within short time. free shipping competitive price any size available they do wholesale and retail! All are extremely CHEAP: http://wowcool.org http://wowcool.org their products： jordan air max oakland raiders. Ed Hardy AF JUICY POLO Bikini. Christan Audigier BIKINI JACKET. gstar coogi evisu true jeans. coach chanel gucci LV handbags. coogi DG edhardy gucci t-shirts. CA edhardy vests.paul smith shoes. jordan dunk af1 max gucci shoes. EDhardy gucci ny New Era cap. coach okely Adidas CHANEL DG Sunglass. Worthy of my recommendation, go and see: http://wowcool.org http://wowcool.org
ecaron 16y ago
You could also reduce the list to: 1) Root* your phone or install Froyo 2) Install ShootMe (http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-bw-picme-local-zmxE.aspx http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-bw-picme-loc...) *: If you're reading this thread, and you have an Android but it isn't rooted, you're doing it wrong...
- steveklabnik 16y ago
  Some of us just like to use mobile phones, and don't enjoy fiddling with them.
khangtoh 16y ago
You have to realize that the android platform is years behind the iPhone. Developing for the iPhone was a nightmare when the SDK was first released to developers. APIs that did not work as described. Talk to iPhone developers that went through that stage of the evolution and you'll know.
studer 16y ago
No idea what the Android team's rationale is, but from a security perspective, I'm pretty happy that random applications don't have access to things written to the screen by other applications. Not sure why it's not an OS level built-in, though.

161 points by anderzole 16y ago

This really annoyed me. I took screenshots on my iPhone regularly to share things with people. I can't do that on my Android phone without rooting it (at least, according to the screenshot apps in the market).

russell_h 16y ago
I've had the exact same experience. Admittedly, I was usually taking screenshots of the iPhone to share amusing UI bugs... but still.

chops 16y ago

Non-savvy users really get lost at how screenshots work. I have a buddy who's a programmer at publishing house, specializing in niche magazines, and they deal regularly with non-savvy older users. He's got this story about one such customer who was complaining that something wasn't working on the website and when asked to send a screenshot he proceeded to: 1) Press PrintScreen 2) Paste it into Word 3) Print it out, and finally, 4) Fax it to the company. I thought that was kind of related, and rather humorous.

thinkbohemian 16y ago
I REGULARLY receive photos from cameras of someones computer screen when asked to supply a "screen shot". It was kinda funny the first few times...now its just sad.
- fforw 16y ago
  One time, my kernel was crapping out and endlessly printing stuff I couldn't read because it was scrolling WAY to fast and ctrl+s did not work either, so I photographed my screen to be able to read what the kernel was trying to tell me (hardware defect).
  - duncanj 16y ago
    Once, we had an issue with a single board computer that seemed like a hardware issue so we called support, and they wanted the output of a logical analyzer. Unfortunately, we didn't have an interface for our old analyzer, and so we set up a webcam to show the analyzer screen to the support guy over NetMeeting. It was kind of funny, but worked great.
- ams6110 16y ago
  The best one I saw, though not really a screenshot, was a photo on Craigslist... someone had used his cell phone to take a photo of a car he was selling, then used a web cam to take a photo of the cell phone screen, and then uploaded that.
- slapshot 16y ago
  The sad thing is that it's not intuitive to non-geeks -- not that they are creative and find ways to make it happen. "Cntl-PrintScr" is not an intuitive command to most people. Pressing the shutter button on a digital camera is. Maybe this is a larger UI point than the author intended -- I'm not sure that the PC, Mac, or iPhone commands are the best way to solve the problem.
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timcederman 16y ago

I am surprised at how useful what a seemingly superfluous feature is on the iPhone. I often find myself grabbing screenshots of things and sending it to friends, Twitter and Facebook. My location on a map. An amusing article I just saw. An SMS conversation. It's not obvious, but once you know how to do it, it's very handy and I'm surprised it's so difficult with Android.

awolf 16y ago
I love screenshots from the iPad maps application imported into SketchBook or some other drawing app. Very useful for whipping up driving directions to forward to a friend.
- thwarted 16y ago
  Why wouldn't you just forward them a link to the driving directions page? You lose all the functionality of the awesome Internet we have in 2010 by sending someone a static map. Anyone who can receive that would be in front of a computer connected to the internet, or if they are on the go, would be on a smart phone with internet access so they could look it up themselves. Might as well just carry around a paper map. Unless you want to be a doormat like that guy in the commercials whose friends call him to ask him for driving directions and movie show times because your phone lets you browse the web while you're in a call at the same time. Let your friends look up their own directions.
  - sounddust 16y ago
    I can't speak for the others, but I have lots of friends who have phones with no data plans (probably 90% of my friends, in fact). I can't send links to their phones, but I can send them screenshots via MMS. It's come in handy on many occasions.
  - hrabago 16y ago
    I typically send all three. I send the link for the driving directions, I send my own summary which makes sense to local people, and a screenshot of a map, with my scribbles on there. "There's this landmark, here's where you turn, this is Xyz Lane which you'll see on your left just before the street you turn into, so be ready when you see it, here's our house on the left. If you're coming from the south instead of west, this is where you'll be coming from." As far as I know, no one's ever gotten lost this way.

aptimpropriety 16y ago

Windows 7 actually comes installed with a Microsoft-developed 'Snipping Tool', which allows the user to drag a semi-transparent box (or free form, or windows size, or full screen) over whatever part of the screen the user so desires. You can annotate, paste, or save the image wherever you like! /end campus rep plug

andrewtj 16y ago
Similarly OS X 10.4 Tiger and later bundle a utility called Grab which does selection, window, screen and timed captures.
- rimantas 16y ago
  Or you can use cmd+shift+4 instead of cmd+shift+3. This allows you to select a region on the screen or you can press spacebar, mouse over the window you want to copy and press enter.
  - NathanKP 16y ago
    I don't think there is a keyboard shortcut for a timed screen grab, however, which is what I use most often.
    - andrewtj 16y ago
      As far as I know you're right. Depending on what you're doing, Automator or the command line screencapture tool combined with a shell script or QuickSilver might be worth looking at to speed up your workflow.
  - vault_ 16y ago
    You can also hit 'space' after cmd+shift+4 to get a little camera icon that takes a screenshot of only the window you click on. It works for any window, the desktop, the menu bar, any menu, and interestingly enough: all of the icons sitting on your desktop independent of anything else.
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sandGorgon 16y ago

Question - is there a bug for this on Android ? if not, I suggest someone file it (I dont have Android.. yet).

veeti 16y ago
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6547&q=screenshot&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6547&q...
papachito 16y ago
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=152 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=152

Tichy 16y ago

I hate the way it is done on OS X, too. I can't remember keyboard shortcuts I only use every couple of months. Usually I use The Gimp for screenshots. Anyway, this thing should be easy to fix for Android.

sjs 16y ago
You can always change the keyboard shortcuts to something else if you don't like Cmd-Shift-3 and Cmd-Shift-4.
- nailer 16y ago
  My prob with using a Mac for he last two years is instructions that use the alt and cmd keys (which are labelled on my MacBook keyboard as alt and cmd) as something else - one is called 'option', the other 'apple' but there is no key labelled either 'option' or 'apple' on the MacBook.
  - culturestate 16y ago
    The option/apple keys are the alt key - until a couple years ago, there was no 'alt' and the option/apple key was called 'open apple option' by most people.
    - duskwuff 16y ago
      Wait, what? That's completely wrong. There are four modifiers on a Mac keyboard: command, option, control, and shift. (Fn isn't a real modifier, but it likes to hang out with them on laptop keyboards.) Option is also sometimes labeled "alt". Command usually has a four-leaf-clover symbol on it, and sometimes also has an Apple logo on it. You might also hear it called "open-Apple" by people who remember the Apple II, which had open-Apple and closed-Apple keys which mapped to the joystick buttons. All four of these modifiers have been on all of Apple's keyboards for over 20 years. (Control, the newest one on the scene, appeared on the Apple Extended Keyboard in 1987.)
    - nailer 16y ago

sramov 16y ago

grep ss[fw] .bashrc alias ssf="import -frame -depth 8 -border ~/pic/ss/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`.png" alias ssw="import -window root -depth 8 ~/pic/ss/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`.png" Results run through OptiPNG. Other than capturing windows and full screen shots, it would also be nice to have some KISS solution for doing selections, like in Mac OS X.

petdog 16y ago
import does just that, if you drop the "-window root" argument
- sramov 16y ago
  Huh, thanks! Will sure add 'sss' (selection) alias :)

hiroprot 16y ago

I find it interesting that this is so easy on iPhone and so hard on Android. For some reason, I think of taking screenshots as a poweruser feature (which might or might not be the case), and that Android would make it easy, while Apple wouldn't make it available to regular users. I wonder what the thinking behind those decisions were. Did his Steveness demand the easy screenshot functionality to capture UI feedback on the go?

jsz0 16y ago
It is interesting considering the limited number of physical button combinations on the iPhone. It was definitely more than an after-thought. They introduced the feature in iPhone OS 2.0 at the same the SDK was released so I'm guessing they intended it mostly for developers then realized it was pretty handy for all sorts of things.
jrockway 16y ago
Apple wouldn't make it available to regular users. It lets you market Apple's product for free. Of course they are going to allow that.
mbrubeck 16y ago
It is a bit of a power user feature, but it's important to two groups of power users in particular: reviewers and developers. These are two groups that it pays to help. Apple certainly doesn't make third-party developers its first priority, but they are decent at helping developers when it doesn't get in the way of Apple's desired user experience. One way they do this is by providing good developer tools and workflows.
bradleyland 16y ago
"that Android would make it easy, while Apple wouldn't make it available to regular users" What would ever give you that impression? Before I went full-geek (I wasn't always this way), I considered myself a Windows power user. The first thing I ever published online (back in the nineties) was a short article titled "How To Be a Power User". It included what I thought was an exhaustive list of shortcuts that I used in my everyday computing life. I couldn't understand how other people got by using their mouse for everything. I once used my Windows PC for three weeks without a mouse, just so I could force myself to learn more keyboard shortcuts. I was in to it. Fast forward 15 years and I'm a Mac convert. OS X contains a lot more "power user" features than most people would think. Your perception of a platform has a lot to do with familiarity, and I'd argue that the view summarized as "Apple doesn't make tools for power users" is wholly based in a lack of familiarity of their products.

davidw 16y ago

Being a site for hackers, and given that Android's source code is available, this is actually a challenge rather than just another internet dick-waving contest, right? Edit. Like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406553 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406553

JMiao 16y ago

i don't know many "normals" that take desktop screenshots...but i get your point.

ntoshev 16y ago

I did't know how to take a screenshot on the iPhone but this would be useful. So I searched for other iPhone tips I'm missing, and here is a pretty nice collection: http://iphonetoolbox.com/news/ultimate-list-of-iphone-tips-and-tricks/ http://iphonetoolbox.com/news/ultimate-list-of-iphone-tips-a...

obama012369 16y ago

This is my very favorite a shopping site: http://wowcool.org http://wowcool.org The website wholesale for many kinds of fashion shoes, like the nike,jordan,prada,adidas, also including the jeans,shirts,bags,hat and the decorations. All the products are free shipping, and the the price is competitive, and also can accept paypal payment.,after the payment, can ship within short time. free shipping competitive price any size available they do wholesale and retail! All are extremely CHEAP: http://wowcool.org http://wowcool.org their products： jordan air max oakland raiders. Ed Hardy AF JUICY POLO Bikini. Christan Audigier BIKINI JACKET. gstar coogi evisu true jeans. coach chanel gucci LV handbags. coogi DG edhardy gucci t-shirts. CA edhardy vests.paul smith shoes. jordan dunk af1 max gucci shoes. EDhardy gucci ny New Era cap. coach okely Adidas CHANEL DG Sunglass. Worthy of my recommendation, go and see: http://wowcool.org http://wowcool.org

yembi 16y ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12985/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12985/ Screenshot pimp: I use the non toolbar buttons in the options. It lets you select the area in the browser you want to capture. Works in mac, too (but not sure about other linux distros)

Keyframe 16y ago

Droid Does? What is this, copywriter was a fan of "sega does what nintendon't"?

jokermatt999 16y ago
That was the Droid's major marketing campaign, actually. Blame the writers of the ad campaign, not the image maker.
- Keyframe 16y ago
  Sorry. I wasn't clear enough, I actually meant that as a blame towards ad copy, not the image itself.

rodh257 16y ago

Am I the only one that thinks this really isn't a big deal, some apple fan (judging by the guys twitter) making a big deal over nothing [Edit: renamed to fan.]

ellyagg 16y ago
You're right that it's not that big of a deal, but downvoted for using "apple fanboy".
orangecat 16y ago
It isn't a big deal, but it's a fair shot at a silly limitation of Android. Of course it's noteworthy exactly because it's an exception to the usual pattern; compare using USB storage or Pandora on Android vs iPhone.

volomike 16y ago

Oh wow. That sucks. Here I am pumped about the future of Android and I didn't realize this. Google, please fix -- I know you read Hacker News.

crocowhile 16y ago

I find lack of universal copy (as in copy and paste) more disturbing. I wish I was able to select and copy text in just any application, or at least in browser and mail!

drivebyacct 16y ago
You can select text in Email, Corp Email and the Browser. Gmail has copy/paste in Froyo.
- crocowhile 16y ago
  How? I have a nexus one running Froyo, I cannot select any text in browser/email. The only text I can select and copy is the one in text fields.
  - drivebyacct 16y ago
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FePeTdNswcE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FePeTdNswcE It's right under the "More" menu entry man, dunna how you didn't look there. Also, lmgtfy.
    - crocowhile 16y ago
      my bad. thanks. I was assuming a feature like that should activate by holding on the text, though.
      - drivebyacct 16y ago
        I wish it worked like that. That way you wouldn't have to wait for a developer to enable copy/paste in the app, it would be there by default.

obama012369 16y ago

ecaron 16y ago

You could also reduce the list to: 1) Root* your phone or install Froyo 2) Install ShootMe (http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-bw-picme-local-zmxE.aspx http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-bw-picme-loc...) *: If you're reading this thread, and you have an Android but it isn't rooted, you're doing it wrong...

steveklabnik 16y ago
Some of us just like to use mobile phones, and don't enjoy fiddling with them.

khangtoh 16y ago

You have to realize that the android platform is years behind the iPhone. Developing for the iPhone was a nightmare when the SDK was first released to developers. APIs that did not work as described. Talk to iPhone developers that went through that stage of the evolution and you'll know.

studer 16y ago

No idea what the Android team's rationale is, but from a security perspective, I'm pretty happy that random applications don't have access to things written to the screen by other applications. Not sure why it's not an OS level built-in, though.