{"id":1200,"date":"2011-05-13T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2011-05-13T18:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:50:53","slug":"utility-clearance-automatic-snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/1200","title":{"rendered":"Utility Clearance: Automatic Snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Automatic Snapshots runs as a background application monitors clipboard. Should a new image be copied there, the utility automatically writes the image into a file. The process does not require any user interaction and is completely automatic so that &#8211; per <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Westen\">Mike Westen<\/a>&#8216;s request &#8211; user could quickly and easily create snapshots of a multitude of windows (Alt+Print Screen) or full screen images (Print Screen) using standard hotkeys.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1201\" title=\"Automatic Snapshots\" src=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2011-05-12-23-31-36-0001-Automatic-Snapshots.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2011-05-12-23-31-36-0001-Automatic-Snapshots.png 522w, https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2011-05-12-23-31-36-0001-Automatic-Snapshots-320x243.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatic PNG compression (can be disabled via registry and enable BMP mode)<\/li>\n<li>Reduction of color depth to create smaller PNG files<\/li>\n<li>Asynchronous processing, the compression and file writes are on background thread to not slow foreground application<\/li>\n<li>Application window flashes on application bar while busy and indicates the status via window caption<\/li>\n<li>Application appends current foreground window caption to the image file name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A binary [<a href=\"http:\/\/trac2.assembla.com\/roatl-utilities\/browser\/trunk\/AutomaticSnapshots\/_Bin\/Win32\/Release\/AutomaticSnapshots.exe?format=raw\">Win32<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/trac2.assembla.com\/roatl-utilities\/browser\/trunk\/AutomaticSnapshots\/_Bin\/x64\/Release\/AutomaticSnapshots.exe?format=raw\">x64<\/a>] and Visual C++ .NET 2010 source code <a href=\"http:\/\/trac2.assembla.com\/roatl-utilities\/browser\/trunk\/AutomaticSnapshots\/\">are  available from SVN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automatic Snapshots runs as a background application monitors clipboard. Should a new image be copied there, the utility automatically writes the image into a file. The process does not require any user interaction and is completely automatic so that &#8211; per Mike Westen&#8216;s request &#8211; user could quickly and easily create snapshots of a multitude&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/1200\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,2,20],"tags":[198,38,113,343,134,132],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atl","category-source","category-utilities","category-wtl","tag-automation","tag-c","tag-image","tag-png","tag-snapshot","tag-utility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}