You may have seen some of our

Android phone tutorials

and wondered how we manage to

capture the screen

on our computers. Well in this episode we're going to show you how to

stream your Android phone screen

to your computer, whether it's a

PC, Mac or Linux

machine.

We have been asked numerous times how we display the Android screen on a monitor. Well in this tutorial, we'll show you how to do just that. You'll need the

Android software development kit

(SDK) in order to

capture the screen of your Android

phone and get it to

display on your computer

.

Taking screenshots on your PC

: hit the Print Screen button on your keyboard to save the screen to the clipboard, paste it into Paint or similar, save the file. Yascu makes it painfully simple to

capture all or a part of your screen

. The

free Windows screen capture tool

lets you take five screenshots at a time. The paid version does away with this limitation and adds some other features to the mix for your $12.

Capturing the screen, or a portion of it, can be a function that's very handy. You can use

screen capture programs

to save the screen to a file for later reference. You can use them to snag an error message before it disappears or you can use them to grab pictures from the Internet. This week Doc Callahan takes a look at three

free screen capture programs

that make it easy to save your screen.

Aviary Inc. has created a series of excellent tools including

Image Editor, Effects Editor and Image Markup

among others. To get the most use of these

free image editing tools

it's best to have a free online account. Here's how to

get started with Aviary

.

Find something cool on the Web you want to show your friends? Have an error message you want to share with your geeky friend? You can use Print Screen Deluxe to capture all or part of your screen. You can save it as a file, print it out and more.

When you're trying to explain an error message, show your geeky friend a strange quirk that keeps cropping up on your computer, when you're trying to share information from a web page or save it for posterity, it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words. Snagit from Techsmith is a great way to capture all or a portion of your computer screen. We'll show you how.

Need a quick and easy way to grab a screen shot. Look no further than IrfanView. The built in screen capturing in IrfanView will is a lot more powerful than the native screen capturing options in Windows. Also, it allows for instant editing of screen captures, all within IrfanView.

There are times when you want or need to take a capture of your screen. SnagIt, by Techsmith, is one of best ways to do it.