A picture says a thousand words

One of the keys on a PC keyboard, that I consider to be "the old keys" is Print Screen, on many PC keyboards this key is relegated to the top right, pretty much out of sight until you need to capture the contents of your screen for documentation or for reporting a software bug.

When it came to putting together my first posting for this blog (One inbox to rule them all) I needed a screen shot from the Mac...finally I found the information needed:

To capture the entire screen press Command + Shift + 3

To capture part of the screen press Command + Shift + 4, then either press space to capture the current selected window, or use the mouse to draw a rectangle around the area required.