Snipping Tool

One of the new tools in Windows Vista is the Snipping Tool. It's a simple screen capture utility that is a great improvement over the basic Windows Print Screen. The basic Snipping Tool is a small window with three buttons or commands:

• New (with options for what part of the screen you want to capture)
• Cancel (after you start a capture)
• Options for how you want the Snipping Tool to behave.

The Snipping Tool window itself will be invisible in any screen captures you take with it. (Because of this feature, in order to capture shots of the Snipping Tool itself, I had to use a different screen capture utility.)