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   Review - FastStone Capture

   6.3 (Feb 28, 2009)

   Of course it sucks when a great app that was once free becomes pay-for only- who wouldn't want something to remain free? However, people seem to forget that they can still use the exact same FastStone Capture that they have been using & love FOR FREE. Which is why it makes no sense for someone to say how they used to think it was "awesome when it was free, but now it SUCKS..." - hello? that same "awesome" version that you were using before is still FREE. It's the same damn thing. If you loved it before, then why not continue to use it, as it is still free, and quit worrying about the pay-for version. It's not like they suddenly took away everyones current free version and are making us pay for it if we want it back, or released a new sucky version of FastStone Capture to be the new freeware one. They are allowing us to continue using the last freeware version, and are just offering a new improved product for payment. For now, i will continue using the version i have always been using. You can't get mad at the developer, who was nice enough to offer it for free as long as he did. Let's be honest here- Im not so sure i would work so hard on an application & then offer it to everyone for free- would you?
   
   The (freeware) version, 5.3, is great. One thing that was important to me when trying out several screen capture tools was that it would be capable of capturing my widgets. I use Yahoo Widgets, and i could not find one screen capture tool that would capture them! Every capture tool i tried would only capture my desktop sans widgets. However, there was just a handful, out of approximately 10-15 different capture tools that i tested, that could capture my widgets- and one of them was FastStone Capture.
   
   The only thing that i continue to have an issue with is the "scrolling window" capture. No matter what i do, or how i adjust the settings, it will not produce a seamless capture. It's extremely annoying because i have tried a number of capture tools that can. I just can't figure out how to do it properly, and it just may well be something that i am doing wrong. However, because the help file is so limited in what info it does contain, i have no way of knowing- it only lists that it CAN do scrolling window captures but gives absolutely no instruction as to how you do it.