{"id":2238,"date":"2009-01-22T02:40:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2009-01-22T02:42:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T02:42:51","slug":"snip-snip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/01\/22\/snip-snip\/","title":{"rendered":"Snip Snip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a funny old world.<\/p>\n<p>Having taken that fateful decision 18 months ago to select a PC with the Vista operating system &#8211; along with how ever many other fools, I realised tonight where the value in Vista really lies.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the snipping tool.\u00a0 Nothing else, just the snipping tool.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2239\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2239\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/01\/22\/snip-snip\/vista_snipping_tool_317\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/vista_snipping_tool_317.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"317,297\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"vista_snipping_tool_317\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Snip&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/vista_snipping_tool_317-300x281.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/vista_snipping_tool_317.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2239\" title=\"vista_snipping_tool_317\" src=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/vista_snipping_tool_317.jpg\" alt=\"Snip\" width=\"317\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/vista_snipping_tool_317.jpg 317w, https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/vista_snipping_tool_317-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the unenlightenend, the snipping tool lets you, at the click of a mouse, encircle (well, enrectangle) ANYTHING on the screen at any time and save it as a JPEG.\u00a0 From there on, the captured item is all yours to do with as you please.\u00a0 Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, in creating this post, I discovered the snip tool&#8217;s hidden weakness&#8230;&#8230;.it can&#8217;t snip itself !\u00a0 No way to capture the snip icon in action.\u00a0 Hence the image here lifted from the ether; from exactly where I neither know nor care.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 Beta &#8211; what&#8217;s that all about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a funny old world. Having taken that fateful decision 18 months ago to select a PC with the Vista operating system &#8211; along with how ever many other fools, I realised tonight where the value in Vista really lies.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the snipping tool.\u00a0 Nothing else, just the snipping tool. For the unenlightenend, the snipping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/01\/22\/snip-snip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snip Snip<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[521,73],"tags":[522,525,524,523],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-technology","tag-snip-tool","tag-snipping-tool","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-vista"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-A6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}