Jing (I'm really excited about this)

I admit I'm a big fan of the company TechSmith. I've used two of their products, SnagIt (screen captures) and Camtasia (video capturing + narration of anything that is happening on your computer screen) for years. They have a new "project," ProjectJing, that I want to mention for two reasons:

(1) it's a great example of a company taking advantage of the collaborative web in a alpha product state. As you can see, they're using collective knowledge to understand how to use this tool, why to use this tool, to determine bugs & enhancements to the tool, as well as anything else they can think of.

(2) I haven't played around with it much but I'm VERY excited about the tool itself. Take a look at the video at ProjectJing to get an idea of what the product it about. It looks like a combination of SnagIt & Camtasia (screen capture and screen video) plus the ability to quickly/easily share with others. Particularly, but not exclusively, for those of you who train people on info on the computer screen, it could be amazing. Take a look!

Three other things:

• First, the documents are stored on screencast.com so you'll need to register with them in order to save your Jing docs.
• Second, TechSmith has arranged for FREE memberships to screencast.com (there is usually a membership fee), so this means you have 200MB of free online storage you can use for anything.
• Finally, at some point TechSmith will likely turn this into a product and shut down the FREE access; so enjoy it while you can!