Allow me to just say that I really hate Macromedia Flash. Much of its use for animation is usually dubious (really, don't need much distracting eye candy, thankyouverymuch), which is why I use the Flashblock extension in FF.
But, more importantly, what gets presented in Flash is not easily copyable. Text in Flash is acutally a graphic, so it can't be selected and Copy/Pasted. And there's no right-click context menu to save a graphic image that you see.
Which, no doubt, is sometimes the point. But it's a freaking annoying point, and it's freaking annoying that uComics is beginning to use Flash for some of comics offerings, such as Foxtrot. Not that it keeps folks who really want to from copying the comic (screen caps still work), but it makes it annoying to do so,
And, on a completely unrelated note, does anyone have a recommendation for a simple, fast graphics editor -- something that I could basically pull up/paste a graphic image (e.g., a screen cap) and crop it, maybe save it as a few different types? The Microsoft Photo Editor worked great for that, as an example, but it got automagically deinstalled with Office 2003 (grump), and the MS Picture Manager is more of, well, a manager than an editor (and an annoying one at that). I have Paint Shop Pro, which I love, but which also takes a good minute to load up. I want something lean and quick, not something that will let me create the great American graphic image.
UPDATE: Interesting. Someone has posted a stand-alone version of MPE here (source here). Put into a directory and execute to expand it. It's an older version (1999), but it doesn't seem to have trashed my machine ... yet.
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Snag-it. Kick-butt screen-cap and basic image editing in one. I dig it. It's not PSP, but what it does, it does better than PSP.
I am a huge advocate of xnview, ***Dave. It is a really professional piece of software that has just what you need, and no fluff. Plus, excellent help files. It would be my first choice even if it weren't free.
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