Jing’s The Thing…

You probably can’t see it in the photograph but at the top of the screen there’s a yellow dot. That’s Jing, an ingenious ‘always-on’ capture program that does just that. Click the dot and Jing starts to record anything you can see on the screen, be it a still image or a video, and if there is any sound that goes with it, it’ll capture that as well. It’s optimised for uploading to the web but you decide where your capture files go and the options include a local folder on your hard drive, a network folder, the clipboard or sharing sites such as Screencast.com and Flikr. Images are stored in .png format whilst videos are .swf files. Needless to say it’s free, but the authors clearly have their eyes on turning it into a commercial product, and if this introductory version is anything to go by that may not be too far off, so get it while you can.