Capturing screenshots under Windows is fairly easy. Hit the PrintScreen button to capture your entire desktop or Alt-PrintScreen to capture the currently selected Window to the clipboard, and then Ctrl V to paste the captured image while using your favorite image editing program.

But if you’ve ever needed to capture screenshots or video from a 3D application (like a game), nothing Windows offers can reliably do the trick. Taksi is perhaps the best open-source tool to meet all your screen and video capture needs. And it does so using any CODEC installed on your computer. Read the rest of this entry »