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On my post titled “Mac OS X Screen Capture, Default Image Format and How To Change It“, a user called “frz” asks:

Anyone know how to change the default filename to the date and time the capture is made? Example: “10-12-09 10:53.png” instead of “Picture 1.png” as it is saved as default today.

That’s a really great question!

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Most of you Mac users are probably aware of the screen capture features that are part of Mac OS X: the Grab utility, the keyboard shortcut commands and the screencapture command in Terminal. No?

Let’s look at the options:

Grab

The Grab application (Applications->Utilities->Grab.app) is a free, built-in screen capture program in Mac OS X that allows you to capture an area with the selection tool, a window, the whole screen and even the whole screen in Timed mode. The last option gives you time to move items or whatever for 10 seconds before taking the snapshot.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are a very fast way to snap screen captures once you memorized them:

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Sometimes, for various reasons, you need to see the hidden files (.filename) on your hardrive. However, there isn’t a switch in Mac’s system preferences to turn the visibility of hidden files on or off in the finder.

One of the quickest ways to do this is through a Terminal window
(Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.app).

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