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I almost wouldn't mind, except the screenshots are inevitably shrunk down so as to be unreadable.

In OSX, the cmd-shift-4 (and 3) keystroke which screenshots right in to a file are near life-transforming. Snap, drag the file into an email, and it's done. I'm sure there are utilities in Windows which do this, but having it built in is great - no apps to start or install.

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Be glad if you've not worked on a project where problem reports can take the form of a blurry, badly contrasted cell phone camera snapshot of the kernel oops that's partially scrolled off the user's screen. :)

press "Print Screen" and paste into new email? Works well in desktop clients like outlook, less so for web-clients like gmail...

NO ONE DOES THAT ON WINDOWS OUTSIDE OF TECH GEEKS. EVERYONE pastes in to MS Word, then emails that document.

That said, from a geek standpoint, I still prefer having the raw image file that I snapped in a folder someplace so I can refer to it later without having to go through sent emails, but that's just a personal preference.

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