Sheesh. What a bunch of whiners...

All I know is that, in the span of a work week, when I'm desperate to get images cobbled together from any number of sources, ESPECIALLY for presentations, it's good to know that, as long as I can see it on screen, I can get it with the built-in screen capture utility.

But, after a few helter-skelter presentation assemblies, I am also looking as a folder with 32 "Picture X.png" files in it, because you're just snapping everything and working out the details in Photoshop or whatever. Yet some of the screengrabs stl hold value after the fact. I also use the screen captures for online receipt storage (especially if the site doesn't offer a great "print this receipt" function). If you had some way to name the snapshots before saving, it would be a real time-saver. I honestly forget that Grab still exists (dig that FUNKY NeXT-era moving eyeball icon! The good thing is it shows you how stable it is if they haven't touched it in this long, the bad is that they haven't touched it for THIS LONG...)

LuminousNerd, you sound like someone's forcing you to pay for a utility you'll never use. They're not.

And, finally, last I checked, the only other utility that intercepted screenshots with all of the standard Mac OS X key commands was the $30 very-long-in-the-tooth SnapzPro from Ambrosia (screen capture variant only). Wow, Jaguar pin-stripes? Really? So, you know, it's half THAT anyway.

@Fraser Drew

So I am assuming, like the rest of us who opted into the first MacHeist bundle, that you're still waiting for ANY activity, blog posts, announcements, etc. from a healthy portion of the offers (like Disco, iClip, etc.). At least I use a couple of the other apps regularly, but the guys who were also part of creating the MyDreamApp competition (can't wait for the TUAW announcement on THAT) have just fallen off the face of the earth. I just cannot trust them with my $$$ anymore, until they can prove that they are actually, I dunno, still alive?

"I'm not sure anyone who says this really understands the differences between these two apps."

sorry, jeff, but anyone who says THIS hasn't been paying attention the past three revisions to the two apps. as you implied, AT THEIR CORE, yes, they are different, but ever since the OS X transition (and adobe's hardcore bundling of apps together), both apps have been yanking features from the other so that i could almost do anything in EITHER app (and the only reason i stop at "almost" is that they haven't totally merged the two feature wise yet, so for, say, a bezier tool that doesn't act like it's on crack, i have to switch to illustrator). it's fun to throw is the "it's much more complicated than that"-style comment, and sound like you know what you're talking about, but in the end, from a user's standpoint, the adobe apps have been sliding together into a mishmash of palettes and cross-purposes for a while now.

Ben, MacMice was sold/doors closed from Jack's influence a while back. the name has been kept by a few North America vendors, but you're railing against old news and old enemies.

that having been said, macmice products are hit-or-miss. the "flex" products o what they claim, probably because of their simplicity, they simply cannot mess them up. but i did ask for (and got) "The Mouse" for Xmas last year, and while it's great in concept, the "split shell" design is really bad. it is far too easy to press too low on the shell (closer to where the split starts) and accidentally press both buttons at once. i KINDA got used to it after a while (but I still got stray right-clicks at times), but my wife found it utterly unusable.

it's in a drawer around here somewhere, as an emergency mouse, but that's where it stays.

so, alcaron, why the heck do you hang around if you can't stand even one sentence out of an article posting? oh, that's right. that's what trolls do... hang around and throw stones at others, clinging to the cold comfort of internet anonymity. pity you can't even criticize without throwing out disparaging remarks, name-calling, or throwing around jesus' name like you hold the trademark on it.

someone please take away this kid's keyboard... his mom's calling him for supper.

#5, spoken by someone who has never lived in an information-overload area like new york or chicago, where it feels like every single solitary square inch of open space is blaring with some candy-colored, neon "BUY ME" ad. it almost gets to the point of invasive, because you simply CAN'T look elsewhere and be spared the onslaught. they started doing this sort of thing in toronto five years ago on cabs (which are now just glorified moving billboards what with car-wrap ads, roof ads, and now hubcap ads, that you get to pay an exorbitant fee to ride around in when other options won't work. trust me, the only thing that these types of ads screams is "we're DESPERATE for your attention!"

thank you, CullerClassik, for saying exactly what i have been thinking for a while now.