Snipping Tool is a nifty utility that allows you to take screenshots of any part on Windows computer screen. It offers four screenshot modes for you: Free-form snip, Rectangular snip, Window snip and Full-screen snip. And you can also edit the screenshot briefly after capturing it. Its image editor gives you a highlighter, various colored pens and an eraser. After editing, you can save the screenshot as an image file in formats like PNG, JPEG, GIF and HTML file.

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This utility is indeed a very handy tool for Windows users. However, Windows is not the only operating system for computers. There is also a large number of people using Mac OS X. And they must also be in need of a Snipping Tool on Mac. In this case, some of the best choices are given in the following.

• The Many States Of A Snapped Window. The gallery below shows the many positions you can snap a window to. This is just a handful of the positions that Windows 10 supports but these will be most familiar to Windows 7 users.
• To snap objects to a grid, select To grid in Print Layout View. To snap objects to other objects, select To other objects under Snap Objects. Change the spacing and set other options for the grid, if you want to do so, and then click OK.
• Method Two: Snap Windows on Mac via Mission Control Enter Mission Control from Launchpad or by pressing F3 on Mac keyboard. Drag any app or window to the top of the screen.

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1. Apowersoft Mac Screenshot

This is a light-weight screen capture tool especially designed for Mac users. It allows you to capture any region on the screen like Snipping Tool on Windows. When you’ve taken a screenshot with this tool, an image editor will pop up. Then you can annotate the image with lines, arrows, texts, circles, etc. After that, you can save the screenshot to your local disk or just upload it directly to the free cloud space. Every image uploaded in this way will be hosted on an individual page with the links readily to share. It is indeed a pretty handy tool for taking screenshot in Apple computers. Here are the steps for you to create a screenshot on Mac with this tool.

• Download and install this program on your Mac.
• Launch the application. You can do some settings before capturing screen. You can set hotkeys (“Command + R” by default) for taking screenshot, preset the directory (desktop by default) for saving the screenshot.
• Hit this tool’s icon in the notification area and choose “Regional screenshot”. Or, you can also press the hotkeys you’ve set. After that, your mouse cursor will turn into a crosshair.
• Click, hold and drag your mouse to select the area you want to capture. Release you mouse to confirm it. You can then annotate it as you like with the drawing tools on the horizontal toolbar.
• Hit the disk-like icon to save the screenshot. You can then find the screenshot in the directory you’ve preset.

Tips: Alternatively, instead of saving it on your local disk, you can also upload it to the free cloud space provided by the developer. Once, it’s uploaded, you will get links to the screenshot, which are useful for embedding the image in forums and blogs.

2. Grab

It can be said that Grab is a built-in free Snipping tool for Mac designed by Apple Inc. It has four screenshot modes for you to choose: Selection, Window, Screen and Timed Screen. After taking screenshot, it also provides an image editor for you to crop and annotate the image. When you are done, you can save the screenshot to a folder on your Mac in TIFF, PNG or PDF formats.

3. Skitch

Skitch is a well-known screen capture program created by Evernote. It is capable of taking multiple screenshots easily without any hassles on Mac OS X. It also has functions of editing and sharing. This program can be a good Snipping Tool alternative for Mac due to the fact that it can not only capture screenshots, but also provides more functions than the Windows Snipping Tool does, such as various image annotation and sharing options.

4. Jing

Jing is another effective screenshot tool on Mac that makes sharing screenshots, animations and small video recordings of your screen a piece of cake. With Jing, you can capture any part of your screen, including application windows, whole screen and selected areas. Once a screenshot is captured, you can edit it with some basic elements like lines, arrows and texts. Aside from that, it also allows you to upload the screenshot to you account on Screencast.com. However, the annotation options are simple and the recording function is limited to 5 minutes.

5. Monosnap

Monosnap is still another free Snipping Tool for Mac that allows for quick and easy image and video captures of your screen. Like Snipping Tool, it allows you to capture (as well as timed capture) the entire screen, a selected window, or any desired portion of the screen. Featuring an 8x magnifier, it allows for precise cropping and also has customization ability with its screenshot hotkeys. You can annotate your captures using basic tools and even cover private information using the software’s blur tool. It also provides free cloud storage for its registered users.

6. TinyGrab

TinyGrab is a simple yet highly effective Snipping Tool on Mac that takes advantage of the platform’s inherent screenshot functionalities to capture screen images. After that, screenshots are quickly uploaded to a web server which enables you to share your captured screen with a small and convenient URL. TinyGrab is famous for its lightweight, unobtrusive and fast response service that can be free or premium (costing 10 pounds).

As you can see, there is a number of excellent candidates for the best Snipping tool alternatives on Mac. You can download any of the tools mentioned above. But it is highly recommended that you use Apowersoft Mac Screenshot because of the powerful functions and free cloud space it provides.

Whether you've just switched to Mac or you're secretly a little jealous of Windows 7 features, there are some things Mac OS X just doesn't do that Windows handles beautifully. Here's how to get Windows' best features on your Mac.

People talk about 'Mac Envy' a lot, but you hear a lot less about Windows jealousy—even though Windows has some pretty drool-worthy features. Whether it's the productivity-boosting Aero Snap or the ability to fully maximize windows with the click of a button, here's how to get some of our favorite Windows features on OS X. (If you're a Windows user, too, be sure to check out how to get Mac OS X's best features on your Windows PC, too).

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A lot of the apps mentioned in this post are, unfortunately, shareware. I looked for free options and found a few where noted, but almost everything here is a pay app. As such, you may not want to rush off and buy all of these, but check out their free trials and see which ones actually make your life easier. And remember: $7 may seem like a lot for an app, but if it's something you'll use every day and makes your life easier, it might not be so bad.

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True Window Maximization

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One of Mac OS X's most annoying features is the lack of true window maximization. That is, when you click the maximization button—the little green one in the corner of your windows—only some applications actually maximize to fill up your monitor. Instead, many just stretch to fit the contents of the window. This can be nice, but if you want to focus on just one thing, or if you just need more space for whatever you're working on, you have to resize the window manually.

Previously mentionedRightZoom is a simple tool that changes the behavior of the green button, causing it to always maximize the window. It isn't perfect (since it then gets rid of the old behavior, which is sometimes good), but it's the best free option we've found. You can alternatively grab Flexiglass, will maximize only when you right-click on the button, but it's $10. It also has a few other window management features though, which we'll talk about in a moment. Of course, most of the Aero Snap programs detailed below will also maximize windows, but using a keyboard shortcut or dragging motion rather than the green plus sign.

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Window Previews

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When you hover over a taskbar icon in Windows 7, it shows a tiny preview of all the windows open in that program, which is great for quickly bringing one into focus (or un-minimizing it). In OS X, you can right click on a dock icon to see the open windows, but the lack of thumbnails makes it hard to distinguish between them. (You can also click and hold on an app to get an Exposé of its windows, but that isn't quite the same). If you'd prefer a more Windows-like behavior, the previously mentioned $10 Hyperdock will give it to you. You can hover over dock icons, close windows right from there, and get a ton of other window management features (which we'll talk about in a moment) right from its preference pane. This is one of my favorite OS X enhancers—easily some of the best $10 I've spent in the Mac App Store.

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Aero Snap's Window Snapping (and Then Some)

Windows 7's Aero Snap feature is a godsend for anyone who needs to work in multiple windows at once. By clicking and dragging a window to the edge of the screen, you could 'snap' them to fit half the screen and use them side-by-side. You can also drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize it. There are a number of different tools that do this for OS X, but they all have a different mix of features, so you'll want to pick the one that works best for you. Here are our favorites:

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Os X Snap Windows

• Hyperdock: This brings window snapping to OS X by both clicking and dragging windows and keyboard shortcuts. In addition, it has the window preview feature mentioned above, as well as the ability to move and resize windows from anywhere—not just the titlebar or window corner (another feature we miss from Windows).

• Flexiglass: Flexiglass is also $10, but has a slightly different feature set than Hyperdock. It too can snap windows, as well as move and resize them from anywhere. However, it also adds the ability to fully maximize windows by right-clicking the green plus button, as well as quit apps by right-clicking the red x button, two features that Windows users on OS X will probably miss. It doesn't, sadly, have the window previews in the dock, so you'll either have to buy both apps or decide which features are more important to you. Again, both should have free trials available.

• Cinch: If you'd rather not buy an app, you can grab Cinch. Cinch is technically $7, but it's nagware, meaning you can run it forever for free as long as you don't mind a request to buy every time you launch it. Cinch adds the drag-and-snap feature to OS X, but doesn't include keyboard shortcuts. For that you'd need...

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• SizeUp: From the same developers as Cinch, SizeUp is a program that lets you snap windows, maximize them, move them to different monitors, and otherwize manage them with keyboard shortcuts. It doesn't include the drag-and-snap features of Cinch and the others, but if you're only going to use keyboard shortcuts anyways, it's perfect. Again, it's $7, but runs free as nagware if you prefer.
• ShiftIt: ShiftIt is a free tool that lets you maximize and snap windows using keyboard shortcuts. It's similar to SizeUp but doesn't have quite as many options. It is, however, completely free (and nag-free).

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Cut and Paste in the Finder

In Windows Explorer, you can cut and paste files all you want, but for some reason Mac OS X's Finder only lets you copy and paste files—no cutting allowed. There's a very easy way to get this functionality on OS X, though: previously mentionedMoveAddict will add keyboard shortcuts for cut and paste to the Finder, and as long as you only want to move one file at a time, you can do it for free. If you want to cut and paste large batches of files, though, you'll need to shell out $8 for the program.

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Get a Better Window Switcher

Cmd+Tab is a fine app switcher for something that's built-in, but if you're more used to how Windows does it, you'll probably get frustrated pretty quickly. It only switches between apps, not windows, and if you have any windows that are minimized or hidden, Cmd+Tab won't open them up unless you learn some hand-cramping new shortcuts. If you'd like a more powerful window switcher, Witch is a pretty good choice—although not exactly cheap at $14. However, it does give you a more Windows-like switcher, with a full list of open windows, thumbnails of each one, and some serious shortcuts (not to mention configurability). If you use Cmd+Tab a lot but aren't satisfied with the built-in offering, you'll probably find Witch is a very powerful program well worth the cash.

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Get Windows-Style Keyboard Shortcuts

If you just feel that your hand is too cramped reaching for Command instead of Control, or your Windows muscle memory is too great, you can use previously mentionedDoubleCommand to remap some of your keys in OS X. It can remap a whole host of things, some of the most useful being Ctrl, Cmd, and Alt. So, switching Cmd and Ctrl, for example, means that you'll go back to the Windows-style Ctrl+C shortcut for copy, Ctrl+V for paste, etc. They're small tweaks, but if you're used to Windows (or if you're forced to use Windows at work), it's nice to get back to the keyboard shortcuts that you're used to.

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You'll never be able to get Mac OS X working exactly like windows, though I don't expect most Mac users would want to. Thankfully, with just a few simple tools and tweaks, you can get the Windows features that do matter on your Mac. Got any of your own favorite features we skipped over? Let us know how you brought them over to OS X in the comments.

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You can contact Whitson Gordon, the author of this post, at whitson@lifehacker.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.

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