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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Capturing Screens

Only of interest to OS X users, but two very useful programs caught my eye recently, both freeware. Screenshot Plus lives on the dashboard, and can capture screenshots, images of windows or images of widgets. Nicely put together and works very well. Can even take timed shots. Paparazzi takes “screenshots” of webpages.

Exam mechanics

This comment by the OCR exam board, in response to a BBC story about GCSE mark schemes is a classic example of media-management: it does not answer the question being asked, but a slightly different one. Candidates will always receive credit for answering a question well and our mark schemes do not hold back brighter [...]