Awesome Screenshot is..... awesome
Tip of the hat to Simon Mackie at Web Worker Daily this week for passing on the Chrome extension Awesome Screenshot.
With a name like "Awesome Screenshot", it had better be pretty good. I think it is, in that its awesomely simple. This is a screenshot utility that grabs what is in the browser window. Find something you want to save as an image, activate the extension and you are given an option of either grabbing the whole page or the part of the page that is visible on the screen.
Once you have grabbed the screen, you can then crop a portion of the image, and annotate the image with rectangles, circles, lines and text. When you're done, right-click on the result and save the image to your local drive or send it off to Twitter, Facebook, Buzz or e-mail it using GMail, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail. The e-mail option is particularly useful to send the image to another web based storage site, such as Picasaweb, Flickr, or Evernote.
All of this probably takes less time to do than it does to read it here. There are other screenshot tools and extensions that do more and have more features. Both Picnik and Aviary have extensions that will capture the screen and let you edit it in the web based image editors. For me, that's overkill most of the time.
You can get the extension at the Google Chrome Extension page here.
