Apple Screenshot Enabler 1.0

20 Responses to “Apple Screenshot Enabler 1.0”

1. Fred on March 18th, 2008 11:06 am:
   

   Well, this app does work for me but the picture is blurry, anyone else having this problem or know how to correct this?????

   [Reply]
2. Ben on March 18th, 2008 11:27 am:
   

   It is just me or does the quality of the screenshots I’m getting sucks?
   They look kind of bad in comparison to utilities such as Capture and ScreenShot..

   [Reply]
3. Mario on March 18th, 2008 12:18 pm:
   

   For some reasong captured screenshot with this util is tiff image and it’s all black except the small yellow sunbeam that bellongs to Dock utility. I’ll try removing it to see if this new utility then can make screenshots.

   [Reply]

   

   Mario on March 18th, 2008 12:50 pm:

   It works now after I uninstalled Dock utility
   But they still remain as TIFF…a very big TIFF if you ask me (452kB for a 3″ screenshot).
4. Jim on March 18th, 2008 1:54 pm:
   

   The screenshots are good quality — in fact, Apple has chosen to do no compression at all, so they are actually “perfect” quality. They are 320×480 TIF files with 24 bit color depth, just like the iPhone screen itself. If you transfer them from the phone to your computer (you find them in ~/Media/DCIM/999APPLE), you can compress them as much as you want with any picture editor.

   The reason why they don’t look good in Camera Roll initially is probably to do with sizing. If you leave it about 45 seconds, it gets sized to full-screen and is completely sharp.

   But what’s the use of viewing screenshots of your phone on your phone? They’re made to be transferred to somewhere else, I would think.

   [Reply]
5. Douglas on March 18th, 2008 2:09 pm:
   

   Yes, if you wait they clear up. It takes a moment to render the image because of it’s high quality.

   [Reply]
6. Eye-Pod on March 18th, 2008 2:59 pm:
   

   I guess this wouldn’t work on a Touch?
   No Camera Roll and no vibrate (same as “Mute” as per the screenshot?) button..

   [Reply]
7. Ramy on March 18th, 2008 3:27 pm:
   

   Works great

   [Reply]
8. BabyGotMac on March 18th, 2008 4:07 pm:
   

   That is awesome, nice find!

   [Reply]
9. bioslug on March 18th, 2008 5:28 pm:
   

   great idea!

   [Reply]
10. ksong12 on March 18th, 2008 6:04 pm:
    

    This is actually built in by Apple, all this little app does is modify a setting in a .plist to enable this.

    [Reply]

    

    nutz on March 19th, 2008 6:26 pm:

    Could you please be so kind and point out the name and full path of the .plist, as well as what setting needs to be modified?
    Thanks!
11. Anonymous on March 18th, 2008 7:35 pm:
    

    when uninstalled does it fix itself

    [Reply]
12. T on March 19th, 2008 12:02 pm:
    

    hey, this one works, awesome. i’m on 1.1.3.

    the only problem i have, how do you change the default image format? is it possible?

    for those that see a blurry image, it’ll be blurry for a bit, but after it renders/dithers/whatever-it’s-called you’ll be able to see it in its true form. even when it was blurry, when i connected to my mac it showed up perfectly fine in iphoto, but in the .tif format.

    [Reply]

    

    Brooke on March 19th, 2008 12:37 pm:

    I don’t think there is a way to change the format of the image. But, if anyone knows if there is…I would love to know about it too!

    

    Douglas on March 19th, 2008 1:24 pm:

    Yes, the tiff thing is annoying. I would like .png.
13. DJ on March 20th, 2008 9:58 am:
    

    Love this app, works great. Pics are crystal clear. Cheers.

    [Reply]
14. Rws on March 23rd, 2008 8:35 pm:
    

    It worked when installed but was gone after restart. Anyone confirm? Does it depend on any other package?

    [Reply]
15. iCarlos on March 28th, 2008 1:56 pm:
    

    Works whit the itouch????

    [Reply]

    

    palantirus on March 28th, 2008 4:48 pm:

    I would like to know this too!
    there must be a way, otherwise Apple couldn’t make screenshots with the itouch (assuming that Apple use this and disabled it for customers)

Please leave a comment below...
and if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!