So I’ve read (millions of times), heard (thousands of times) and seen (I don’t even want to think about it) how people keep using the standard shortcut to take screenshots on a Mac. I can’t really remember how long I did it that way but it sure as hell wasn’t long enough to remember the shortcut. Appearently it’s CMD + SHIFT + 4 for a screenshot (I had to Google this).

What I’ll be showing here is how you can remap this action to one (1) keystroke using standard built-in OSX magic.

1. Open System Preferences
   
2. Go to ‘Keyboard & Mouse’
   
3. Hit the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ tab
   
4. Scroll down the the ‘Screen Shots’ group
   
5. I think you’ll be able to handle yourself from here…

I would suggest a screenshot program but apparently the developers in some companies aren’t that bright either…
For example: There’s that TinyGrab thing, which is really making its name ever since Snow Leopard hit the stores and f#cked up GrabUp. They have their own keyboard shortcut and you WOULD think they’d make it easy for you…but they don’t.

I can see how the OSX shortcut is the same as the original ‘short’cut… But what the hell were they thinking for Windows users? Windows users have a ‘Print Screen’ button on their keyboard! What’s wrong with that!? It’s right there! USE IT! (Seriously, it’s stuff like this, that makes me facepalm)(or turn your neighbor into an Oxford-cloth psycho who stalks from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers)

Anyway: I hope you can remap that insane shortcut to something easier (either for your brain or for your fingers) on your Mac and go on and enjoy your new screenshot-button!