How have I not seen this before? A friend showed me Jing a few days ago, and I’m in love with it. It’s a software program for Windows or Mac that makes it very easy to capture screenshots or video clips and share them.
I had seen Skitch a few weeks ago, and thought it looked awesome. The problem with it is that it’s Mac-only. A Windows version is “coming soon”, but not here yet. In addition, Skitch only does image capture, while Jing does both images and videos.
To explain how easy Jing is, I’m going to do the following:
- Pull up ESPN
- Grab a screenshot
- Add some arrows pointing to interesting items
- Annotate it a bit
- Post a link to the final, uploaded image
- Time the whole process.
Here we go…
Done! 32 seconds.
https://www.mickmel.com/jing/2008-05-20_2230.png
It’s great! For another brief example, here’s a quick video I just made so you can see how those look:
https://www.mickmel.com/jing/2008-05-20_2246.swf
You’ll probably find quite a few uses for this. I even grabbed the Jing logo at the top of this post by grabbing it from their site using their own software. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.
Thanks to your posting on Twitter a day or two ago, I tested Jing. It worked well.
A PC-based client called me and needed advice as to how to share some of his photos via CD-ROM with Mac users. We talked about it for quite a while as I described the steps that he would need to describe.
Then I made a short video _showing the process_ with Jing & posted it. It took 1 minute.
When he opened the link, he said “a picture is worth a thousand words.” And that was before he saw the video begin.
To make a long story short, Jing made a long story short.