If you do a lot of ‘tech related’ communication or computer walk-throughs, a good screen capture utility is a must have. While there are lots out there (I know I have written about several in the past), another tool to add to the list is the open source Lightscreen.

For the most part, this utility has everything you would expect such as hotkey activation and configurable output formats. It does not offer an ‘after the fact’ editor which is found in most commercial packages, but if you can easily open the resulting screen shot file in your favorite graphics editor if you need to mark it up.