Jing
Jing is a small application allowing you to create screenshots and screencasts up to 5 minutes - nothing revolutionary here. The new thing is, that Jing is capable of storing these files at either screencast.com, Flickr, a custom FTP server or your local hard drive (or network drive) and inserting a link to the file into your clipboard. This way you can share screenshots with your mates over IM or Email almost instantly.
After installation Jing docks to your screen edges and reveals it’s features on mouseover. Jing makes it super-easy to take screenshots and share them, once you’ve tried it, you’ll like it. Jing also comes with a screenshot/-cast history that allows you to delete old files to save some space. However, there are two downsides:
- You’ll need to register with screencast.com on first startup even if you don’t intend to use it
- You can’t create multiple FTP accounts (e.g. one for temporary files and another one for files you’d like to post in your blog and store permanently)
Jing is available for Mac and PC at http://www.jingproject.com/
Interesting project, I have been looking for a good screen shot/cast app for OS X for a while, i’ll have to give this a try. Also the project is done by tech smith who are well known for their screen capture software.