SnapaShot Editor's Review

As you probably guess it by its name, 'SnapaShot' is a program meant to help you take snapshots of your desktop. It looks like a window without background which can be scaled upon the section of the screen you want to capture.

Besides being free, it is very easy to use. There are three buttons on its interface: one is for closing the program and the other two are 'Copy' and 'Save to file'. Since the program doesn't have a 'Help' file, I didn't figure it out what is the 'Copy' button for, because if you press 'Save to file' after selecting the area, the program will do its job. Besides those three buttons on its control panel you will see also a check box. If checked, this will change the position of the panel to the left side of the window.

On the panel you'll find also the coordinates; the position on the X and Y axis and the width and height of the selected area. Here is another problem. When you shrink the window to much the 'Close' button and the check box are going behind the coordinates and buttons and this looks very odd. It seems that this is the beta version so we have to wait the final release. Speaking about the final release, I think that this program needs a shortcut key and it should reside in the system tray. This will improve its usability a lot.

Pluses: It is very easy to use and very useful.

Drawbacks / flaws:

In conclusion: I look forward for the next release hopping that it will have more features. Considering that it is a beta version and also free software I believe that you should at least try it.

version reviewed: 2.0