Jing

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While listening to the MacBreak Weekly #70 podcast the other day, I learned about a new screen/video capture software called: Jing. If you have enjoyed other TechSmith tools such as SnagIt and Camtasia Studio, then you might like Jing. The big difference with Jing is that it is built around the idea of quickly sharing screen/video captures either as a file on your local disk, using TechSmith’s Screencast image/video sharing site, at Flickr, or your own FTP site. Jing is also free and works on both Windows and the Mac OS.

Since Jing was designed to be simple and fast there are a few limitations. Image files are saved in PNG format (.png) while video files are saved as Flash (.swf). Those are the only file formats supported.

Watch this video to get an overview of what Jing is all about (same video as found on the front page of the Jing web site).

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