{"id":689,"date":"2008-07-14T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=689"},"modified":"2009-08-20T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T00:52:52","slug":"stupid-iphone-tricks-the-screen-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Stupid (but useful) iPhone tricks: The screen dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/iPhoneScreenShot.PNG\" alt=\"iPhone Home Screen\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some people like to illustrate a point they&#8217;re making about a piece of software, or show a particular problem they&#8217;re having, with a direct capture of what&#8217;s on the screen.  The process of doing this is called a screen capture, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Screen_capture\">screen dump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is pretty easy to do in Windows and on a Mac, but it can be elusive to do on a cell phone.  <\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder how people can get perfect screenshots of their iPhone?  Well, it&#8217;s actually quite simple:<\/p>\n<p>This screen capture was taken from my old iPhone.  All you have to do is the following:<\/p>\n<p>1. Press and hold the Home Button down (the button below the screen).<br \/>\n2. Briefly press the Lock\/Power button (the one on the top edge).<\/p>\n<p>The screen should briefly fade, indicating a screen capture has been taken.<\/p>\n<p>Then, just sync the phone to your computer, and the images can be imported like regular photos.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people like to illustrate a point they&#8217;re making about a piece of software, or show a particular problem they&#8217;re having, with a direct capture of what&#8217;s on the screen. The process of doing this is called a screen capture, or screen dump. This is pretty easy to do in Windows and on a Mac, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40,171],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits","tag-iphone","tag-screen-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}