Click the Download Free Trial button above and get a 14-day, fully-functional trial of CrossOver. After you've downloaded CrossOver check out our YouTube tutorial video to the left, or visit the CrossOver Mac walkthrough for specific steps. Jan 31, 2013 MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most po.
Snap is a feature that debuted in Windows 7 at its release in 2009. It allows users to drag windows to the edges of their computer screen to quickly snap them into a specific size. If you drag the window to the top, it maximizes the window. If you drag it to the left or right, it fills that half of the display. Then you can adjust them to your liking from there too.
Despite being such a popular feature for several years, OS X only recently caught on to this useful organizational tool in El Capitan. There’s a built-in feature that works similarly to Snap hidden at the top of every OS X window. Still, the way it functions is a bit different from Windows. For more power and control over your window sizes and placement, we’ll also have to turn to a third-party app.
Mac’s Split View
OS X El Capitan (and presumably future versions of OS X to come) has a feature called Split View built in that mimics Snap for Windows, though it doesn’t work for every application.
Split View is hidden behind the green full-screen button at the top left of every window. All you need to do is press and hold this green button. You’ll see that the current app window will automatically resize to take up the left portion on your screen.
Over on the right, an array of windows you have open that are compatible with Split View will appear so you can pick one to fill in the other side.
Tip:
Not all applications will work with every Split View because some require more than half of the screen. If this is the case, windows you have open will sit as thumbnails at the bottom with the message “Not available in this Split View.”Just click a compatible window to fill your display with two applications simultaneously. You can even drag the slider in the middle to adjust the sizes of each one.
Tip: You can also launch Split View by four-finger swiping up on your touchpad to open Mission Control. Drag one window up into the Spaces toolbar, then drag another window on top of that to merge them.More Advanced Window Management with Magnet
If you really want to go all out with your window management on a Mac, try out Magnet. It’s currently on sale for $0.99 in the Mac App Store so there’s no better time to get it. Plus it does everything Windows Snap can do and more.
At its core, all Magnet really does is enable windows to intelligently resize at your comment. In addition to having them fill up half the screen like Split View already does, you can fill four corners with four different windows, have three windows with one at the top and two at the bottom, one on the left and two on the right… the possibilities are extensive.
When you first launch Magnet, be sure to grant permissions in System Preferences as it prompts you to do. Once that’s complete, you have one of two options. You can drag a window to the corner or side you want, or use my own preferred method which is the menu bar icon. Magnet’s menu bar icon lists all the sizing shortcuts and even some extras like centering a window. Just click a window, click the icon and choose its position.
Split View and Magnet combined, not only can you mimic Snap, you can go above and beyond what Windows can do.
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File Details | |
| File Size | 0.6 MB |
|---|---|
| License | Freeware |
| Operating System | Windows (All) |
| Date Added | July 6, 2002 |
| Total Downloads | 2,064 |
| Publisher | Mirek Wójtowicz |
| Homepage | MWSnap |
Publisher's Description
MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. It is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. It handles 5 most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter. Marvel spider man game free download for pc windows 7.
Enlightenment reviewed v3.00.0.74 on Dec 19, 2014
No updates in forever, but I have used it numerous years on 32-bit Windows XP / Vista / 7, and currently using it with 64-bit Wndows 7.
It works perfect for capturing Full Screen and any X/Y cut from a full screen, including choice of saving to PNG or GIF and other file formats, though I only use PNG without any issues.
The only issue is it only captures a rectangle area, so for the other choice of capturing the current window, it doesn't account for the newer rounded corners nor is it exactly dead-on. If this issue was fixed, then it would be perfect for a FREE screen capture program. Still with this minor issue, I continue to use it because it's FREE and it WORKS.
Capture in 4 different ways:
- Fixed rectangle pixel size that you specify. I haven't used this one.
- Any rectange size. You choose 2 end-points with cursor. Works great. I use this a lot.
- Current window or menu. Has a minor issue on newer windows.
- Full screen. Works great.
SuzzyWoozy reviewed v3.00.0.74 on Jan 16, 2008
To the reviews bellow: the software works perfectly and it saves the images in the folder at your choice.. Gta san andreas for ipad free no jailbreak. unless you want the setting to be done automatically (menu Tools->Settings->Autosaving tab).
The message unable to register hotkey' however, is due to the fact that there are already other applications that listens to the hotkeys MWSnap is trying to bind; the option if you want to disable/redefine the hotkeys is here: Tools->Hotkeys.
slegg reviewed v3.00.0.74 on Dec 21, 2007
Apparently it doesn't work with restricted user rights under Windows XP. At first it's complaining about failing to register the hotkeys, then it refuses to make any kind of screenshots at all 'Not enough storage aviable to process this commant'. Where does this little piece of crap want to save the shots?! I have plenty of room on the drive where it's installed. Even specifying a special directory for saving images doesn't help.
DaemonFF reviewed v3.00.0.74 on Dec 17, 2007
Looks like it has some nice features, but the fact that it doesn't work with my dual monitor system makes it unusable for me.
bobad reviewed v3.00.0.74 on May 12, 2006
Nice, compact screen capture utility. It runs fine as a single executable. My favorite features are auto save/auto name to a folder of your choice. Patch sketchup pro 2016 32 bits. 1 point off because it does not save the settings in an INI file. That would make it perfectly portable on a flash drive.
JaapB reviewed v3.00.0.74 on May 11, 2006
MW-snap was my first 'screen-camera' and still my favourite. Of course I also use WinSnap, taht program does have mutch more options but for a quick snapshot MW-snap does do the trick.
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Enlightenment reviewed v3.00.0.74 on Dec 19, 2014
No updates in forever, but I have used it numerous years on 32-bit Windows XP / Vista / 7, and currently using it with 64-bit Wndows 7.
It works perfect for capturing Full Screen and any X/Y cut from a full screen, including choice of saving to PNG or GIF and other file formats, though I only use PNG without any issues.
The only issue is it only captures a rectangle area, so for the other choice of capturing the current window, it doesn't account for the newer rounded corners nor is it exactly dead-on. If this issue was fixed, then it would be perfect for a FREE screen capture program. Still with this minor issue, I continue to use it because it's FREE and it WORKS.
Capture in 4 different ways:
- Fixed rectangle pixel size that you specify. I haven't used this one.
- Any rectange size. You choose 2 end-points with cursor. Works great. I use this a lot.
- Current window or menu. Has a minor issue on newer windows.
- Full screen. Works great.
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SuzzyWoozy reviewed v3.00.0.74 on Jan 16, 2008
To the reviews bellow: the software works perfectly and it saves the images in the folder at your choice.. unless you want the setting to be done automatically (menu Tools->Settings->Autosaving tab).
The message unable to register hotkey' however, is due to the fact that there are already other applications that listens to the hotkeys MWSnap is trying to bind; the option if you want to disable/redefine the hotkeys is here: Tools->Hotkeys.
slegg reviewed v3.00.0.74 on Dec 21, 2007
Apparently it doesn't work with restricted user rights under Windows XP. At first it's complaining about failing to register the hotkeys, then it refuses to make any kind of screenshots at all 'Not enough storage aviable to process this commant'. Where does this little piece of crap want to save the shots?! I have plenty of room on the drive where it's installed. Even specifying a special directory for saving images doesn't help.
DaemonFF reviewed v3.00.0.74 on Dec 17, 2007
Looks like it has some nice features, but the fact that it doesn't work with my dual monitor system makes it unusable for me.
bobad reviewed v3.00.0.74 on May 12, 2006
Nice, compact screen capture utility. It runs fine as a single executable. My favorite features are auto save/auto name to a folder of your choice. 1 point off because it does not save the settings in an INI file. That would make it perfectly portable on a flash drive.
JaapB reviewed v3.00.0.74 on May 11, 2006
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MW-snap was my first 'screen-camera' and still my favourite. Of course I also use WinSnap, taht program does have mutch more options but for a quick snapshot MW-snap does do the trick.