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I entered both contests, but I didn’t get my hopes up. Also back in May, Digital Inspiration and Softonic EN ran contests in which they were giving away a license to Snagit v10 each. I was lucky and won license to Snagit v10 AND Camtasia v7. Some of the gifts they gave away includes books about making screencasts, Snagit, Camtasia, etc. 😛 Needless to say, the addition of this feature alone is what would have made me upgrade from v9 to v10 because it cut down my fiddling time. Now, the smart developers at Techsmith decided that instead of letting users do ALL the work, they engineered the All-in-one mode with which you can capture regions, windows, objects and scrolling windows (horizontally & vertically which is the holiest of Holies in my book).

Click on the capture type I wanted and hit the “big red button” to start the capture.

Start up Snagit by clicking the tray icon or going to the Programs menu.

Navigate to the Profiles tab Click on “Basic Profiles” to select the particular capture mode I wanted.

go to the quick tray in Windows (7) and rightclick on the Snagit icon.

That’s a LOT of key presses so in the past with Snagit v9, I would have to: I’m not big on keyboard shortcuts because on my HP notebook, it’s usually a combo of Fn+PrintScreen or Ctrl+Shift+Letter. With the previous versions of Snagit, there was an emphasis on Profiles and shortcuts to launch your capture modes. With Snagit v10, there was the addition of an all-in-one capture mode which I absolutely love.

Httpv://One of the first things I noticed about Camtasia v7 is that redesigned interface puts the focus on creating your content. Slightly surreal and I’ve already put Camtasia v7 to good use with this first video about setting page breaks in Excel 2007. The #Snagit24 videos by Techsmith are up online for your viewing pleasure, but back to my title about winning, I won a license of Snagit v10 and Camtasia v7.

It was a long event (24 hours) so I was in and out. Besides the allure of winning something, I was curious to get to know the marketing machine ( is the chief evangelist) and developers behind the product. I was immediately excited because I am familiar with Snagit and it’s an absolute-must for anyone who blogs.

I happened to be online when Techsmith ( on Twitter) announced that they would be doing a 24-hour marathon about one of their flagship products, Snagit, with prizes to boot.

Snagit scrolling capture slow updating page