Snip, and you're done!

See also: Trixie

What's new: Rectangular selections! Just hold down the Shift key while dragging.

What is Snippy?
How often have you carefully selected some text from a Web page and copied it to an email message?
Snippy makes this a snap! Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mar
out the region of the screen that you want to copy — that's it, you're done! The cut-out image will now b
in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application.
If you are cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the
clipboard; this makes it very convenient to select something interesting on a Web site and send it out in
email message.

Using Snippy
Click on the Snippy icon – mouse cursor changes to a pen – mark an area of the screen – the marked ar
is now in your clipboard.
If you want to select a rectangular area, just hold down the Shift key while dragging. You can configure
some things like the color of the border and so on by right-clicking on the Snippy icon in the taskbar. On
of the things you can do here is to set a keyboard hotkey for activating the capture mode.

Installing Snippy
There is no install program. Snippy is a very small program; just 84 KB. Simply save the Snippy executa
in some convenient location on your hard-drive. We also recommend that you add a shortcut to your
Startup folder so that Snippy starts up automatically when you turn on your computer.

Download Snippy now.

Snippy works only with Windows XP. Actually that's not exactly right — Snippy
will work with older versions of Windows as well, if it has the GDI+ installed.
Windows XP has GDI+ pre-installed, but Microsoft also provides a redistributable
version of GDI+ that you can install if you are running Windows 2000, or (gasp!)
Windows 98 or ME.

Caveats

Note that the screen region is copied as an image and not as text, even if the area that you've
marked contains only text.

The feature to grab URLs works only with Internet Explorer currently.

When Snippy captures a screen region, it saves it as a temporary file which are then recycled. If y
are pasting multiple cut-out regions into a single email or document, Snippy may eventually start
re-use the files before you have had a chance to save the document. In general you won't run into
this problem unless you have more than 16 cut-out regions in a single email. Note that this applies
only when you are copying multiple cut-outs to a single email or document; if you send out severa
emails in a row, each with 4 or 5 cut-outs, it will work just fine.

Version History
Version 0.22 – 10 July 2005
You can now optionally select a rectangular area by holding down the Shift key while dragging.

Version 0.21 – 8 July 2005

Fixed a bug in the Save As functionality, wherein the region saved was always from the top-left corner of the screen.

Version 0.2 – 24 June 2005

First public release.

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