Screen Capture: Thumbalizr
But the most important consideration may be that some offer markedly greater simplicity and convenience than others. If you are going to pay, I like SnagIt for its functionality. But if you’re going for simplicity and convenience and you don’t want to download yet another browser extension, then thumbalizr may be what you need (WebSnapr’s pretty good too with many similar features; WebSnapr also offers a Wordpress plugin WP-WebSnapr).
At thumbalizr, all you need to do is enter the target-URL, select whether you want a screenshot of the fixed height of the screen or the complete webpage, and press “thumb it”.
This begins the screenshot processing which spits back the page of the URL you entered along with options for downloading the image. At this point, you can easily select what size you want your screenshot to be–standard options include 150, 320, 640, 800, 1024 or 1280 pixel width, but you can also create a custom-sized screenshot. Then download and away you go with your image to embed it on your blog or to use in a presentation or other purpose.
Also, thumbalizr offers bookmarklets for Firefox and Internet Explorer. For developers who want to further customize what thumbalizr offers, the thumbalizr API is available. To access these tools, just click on the Tools link on the navigation bar on top of the thumbalizr website.
Here are a couple of the thumbs I made for demonstration purposes. The first is a 150 pixel image of my blog and the second is a 320 image of the thumbalizr screen. Both of these images are rather small as they are for demonstration purposes only and aren’t meant to take up the whole screen, but, I’ve made them into links, so that they link back to the full screen website.
So go to it: 
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