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Two Good Vista Features

I just found two good features of Vista. I can’t believe I’m saying it, but they are brilliant. The first one is the Snipping Tool, which I used to get the below picture. You can take a snip of a portion of the screen. It’s missing some features, like selecting a portion of the screen and having it wait x seconds to snap the picture (for example, so that you can take snippets of rollover text). The second one is the Windows Sound Mixer. If you click on the speaker icon in the taskbar and click Mixer, you get this great mixer where you can change the amplitude and/or mute any single application. Check it out below:

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3 Responses to “Two Good Vista Features”

  1. Brian Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    The snippet thing isn’t unique to Vista. KSnapshot lets you take snapshots of screen regions. I think many other programs do also. KSnapshot also lets you take a snapshot of a single window, or a single widget in a single window. And it does let you set a delay on all of this. :)

  2. Clete R. Blackwell II Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    Well that’s nice. I have never used KSnapshot. I have always just used “import …” in the console.

  3. Thomas Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    KSnapshot allows this and more like said above :)
    PulseAudio allows you to mix volume for each application like in vista. As a bonus, it is network transparent :)

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