June 2010

One of the things I love about OS X is the bundled Grab utility.

All OS's allow you to capture screen shots, but most only allow you to capture the entire screen, OS X's Grab allow's to capture either the whole screen, a whole window, or allows you to drag a box over the area you wish to capture. It's something I've come to use everyday.

There is one niggling issue though, by default Grab insists on saving the captured images as tiff files. And there seems to be no easy way to change. After a bit of googling though I found it can be changed using the defaults utility in the terminal.