Rift: Screenshots, Twitter and Facebook

To take screenshots using a Windows7 machine, use Print Screen. You may have to hold down the control key while pushing Print Screen.  A lot depends on your keyboard brand.

If you don't have a print screen key, go into Keybindings and change the Screenshot key to one of the Function keys or something else you never use in-game.

If you want to remove the UI bars first, press Control plus U to hide the interface.  Pushing Control plus U twice removes guild tags and names.  Pushing Control Plus U the third time puts the UI bars back.
http://riftbuddy.com/how-to-hide-the-ui-interface-in-rift

Screenshots are files in the RiftGame/screenshots folder wherever your game is installed (probably in C:/Program Files/RiftGame/screenshots).

Apparently the command /tweetpic will put a photo into your Twitter account.

This is how you push info to Facebook.
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?194118-Zann-Rift-Twitter-Facebook

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Rift: Macros and Slash Commands UPDATED

While looking for Rift wikis and other resources, I stumbled across these listings of macros and slash commands for the game.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/02/24/macros-and-slash-commands/

UPDATE:  H pointed out this good basic guide to macros, which folks who haven't used them before will find helpful.   There's a link to another list of slash commands in the article.  Thanks for the tip, H.
http://www.riftlevelingguide.com/game/user-interface/macros/

UPDATE #2:  Through Sir Robin I discovered another good explanation of slash commands and building macros from them.   Commands are grouped as to whether you use them in combat, to control a pet, etc.
http://www.tentonhammer.com/rift/guides/commands

UPDATE #3:  Extensive list of slash commands which are called "macros" by the author.
http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=154679&TabID=1311920&ForumID=1879402&TopicID=9539260

To quote Sir Robin, "Basically keybinding lets you bind one ability to one button. With Macros you can bind multiple abilities to one button."
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?113711-47-DPS-Warrior-Champ-Para-Rift-w-Screenshots-Parses/page7

Telarapedia has separate articles about building macros and a list of commands.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Macro
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Commands

Macro advice from the Rift Junkies forum.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/forums/showthread.php?812-Macro-Advice

A good explanation of using macros for healing.
http://thisisnotarift.blogspot.com/2011/02/mouse-over-macro-and-my-thoughts-on.html

And here's a mouseover healing macro from Havoc, a Defiant Guild on Wolfsbane.
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?45880-Mouse-Over-Healing-Macro

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