Software: Snippy & MWSnap

You might've just realized that Windows 7 Starter is so basic (like in my recent netbook review of the HP Mini 110-3138TU) that it doesn't come with the ever-so-useful Snipping Tool (yes, been there, done that and found nothing in the Accessories folder - I even tried copying the program from another computer but it looks like it has to be installed or something). But no need to fear! There are free options over the Internet that do pretty much the same thing, such as Snippy and MWSnap.

The thing is with Snippy though, is that it works a little different from Snipping Tool. What you do instead of selecting an area of the screen to take a snapshot of, you actually use a lasso-like red pen to select what you want to capture and that gets saved to your clipboard. You then open a program like Microsoft Word and paste it there to look at it. And it pretty much looks like the picture that's on their website.

MWSnap, on the other hand is more closer to Snipping Tool, in that you would usually take a snapshot of a screen using a rectangle (as a default setting) - like in the sample snapshot below, as advertised on their website. Either way, I would say both programs fit the bill nicely, although I usually take screen captures of my whole desktop more frequently than I do of a selection of text and images.