Capture .NET is a great set of desktop tools. It features a screen capture utility, a color picker, a history cleaner, an alarm clock, a system tweaker, and many other useful utilities. The tool is aptly called the Swiss army knife of PC tools because it just does so many things. The tool has a Professional Version and a Free Version. The Professional version requires you to pay $15 for a license. However the Free Version is quite a handful in itself.

It is unique in the aspect that it is small in file size (688KB) and is a standalone application (download and run). It does however require the .Net Framework.
Screen Captures
Capture.NET allows you to take screenshots. Just like some of the commercial applications you can take screenshots by isolating windows, regions or take full screen grabs. The tool offers you a zoomed in view of the screen to help you precisely grab just the area you like.
Basic Image Editing
The captured image is then presented to you within an image editor, where you can do some basic editing. The image editing features include the ability to:
*Crop
*Rotate
*Add edge effects like shadows, torn edges, soft edges
*Convert pictures to Ascii (Cool!)
*The basic cut, copy paste, save etc
Post it Notes
Capture.NET provides you the capability to post notes on your screen. Just hit Ctrl + Shift + N and type in your note. You have now got an instant sticky note. You can also manage your sticky notes from the context menu accessed via the tray icon.
A Privacy Eraser
A mini tool that allows you to clean temporary files, the recycle bin, clipboard, cookies, MRU lists, Windows Events Logs and perform some minor tweaks like clearing the pagefile on shutdown.
A Color Picker
A great tool for web designers and programmers. The color picker allows you to pick any color off the screen. It also provides you with sliders to generate color schemes or if you are really stuck, hit the random button to get a random color suggestion.
A File Format Convertor
This allows you to inter-convert between the various image formats. Just browse to images you wish to convert on your hard disk, select all images that you want to convert and choose the appropriate command. File Format Converter also allows you to convert chm files to html files.
A Tweaker
Tweaker allows you to perform some basic registry tricks on your system. It provides you with detailed information about your system and ready access to the device manger and the Windows System Information utility. Tweaker also has options to restore the settings for a hijacked Internet Explorer.
A Backup Expert
Backup Expert allows you to backup your mail (Outlook) as well as Internet Explorer favorites and feeds. Though honestly I missed Firefox support here.
Alarm Clock, World Time, Timer and Time Synchronization
Apart from the basic alarm clock functionality, the tool also offers count-down/count-up timer and time synchronization with a NTP server. You can also view the different time zones and time differences readily accessible through keyboard shortcuts

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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 1:59 pm | by Kur-nia-one |