Microsoft Snippet

Manufacturer: Microsoft

Web site: www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/downloads/powertoys.asp

Estimated price: Free download

In my book, this is a must-have for Tablet PC users. Microsoft Snippet sits on your system tray waiting for you to activate it with a tap. When you do, you can use your pen to circle anything in a document you’d like to snip. Whatever you circle (text, objects, ink, or whatever) is snipped as an image, so even if the circle you draw chops through the middle of letters or an image, that’s exactly what you’ll get.

 Tip  Some Tablet PC manufacturers have included Microsoft Snippet on their models along with other preinstalled software.

After you have captured snippets, you can e-mail or print them or work with them using the Snippet Explorer feature (shown in Figure 14-7). You can draw on Snippets with your pen, connecting various items with arrows or handwritten text. You can also rearrange Snippets in Snippet Explorer.

Figure 14-7: You can build documents of snippets you grab from any program — or even online.