Do you ever need to take screenshots for your blog posts? If you blog about anything technical, or if you want to show readers step by step how to do something, then screenshots are really handy. Lightshot is a free screenshot tool that lets you select part of a webpage—very handy if you don’t want a screenshot of the whole thing.
Here’s Lightshot getting an awesome screenshot of my Blog Title Generator:
Lightshot Chrome extension screenshot, showing the process of taking a screenshot taiwan telephone number of the blog title generator tool (but not the text above the tool) using Lightshot
17. EditAnything
EditAnything is another great tool if you’re taking screenshots. You might want to demo something without showing your actual account details or data—and that’s where EditAnything comes in. It lets you change pretty much any text on any website (obviously you’re not changing it for real—only on your screen).
It can be pretty fun, too. I tried it out on my Contact page:
EditAnything Chrome extension screenshot, showing text from the RyRob.com front page edited to state that I have ten trillion monthly readers
I don’t really have ten trillion monthly readers, of course. Here’s how the page really looks:
Screenshot of the original text from the RyRob.com home page, which states that I have 400,000 monthly readers
General Purpose Chrome Extensions
There are quite a few invaluable Chrome extensions for bloggers that aren’t blogging-specific—but that can save you a lot of time and hassle. Here are my favorites.
18. LastPass
LastPass is a password manager service that stores your passwords for you. The LastPass Chrome extension lets you save and autofill passwords on any site you use. This can speed you up a lot if you’re having to log in to multiple different sites each day.