Pick of the week: Jing Project

Posted: April 4th, 2008 | Author: David Schultz | Filed under: apple, cool, pick of the week, recommendations, software |

Inspired by one of my favorite podcasts, Macbreak Weekly, i’m going to try to post a new pick each Friday. This week my pick is a great piece of software called Jing Project. There are a tonne of video / image screencap software tools out there that i have tried - Skitch, iShowU, ScreenFlow, dockdrop - the list goes on. The problem is i have my screenshot app, and my screencast app which is somewhat cumbersome and sharing my content is a little tricky sometimes, particularly for video.

This is where Jing comes in. Jing solves the problem of being able to show people what you are seeing and/or doing on your computer very quickly. It’s insanely easy to use, on the mac you invoke Jing by pressing SHIFT+Apple+1 which brings up a cropping mask that you can move & size to the area of your screen you wish to capture. Then it’s just a matter of picking your format - image or video.

Jing can then automatically upload the content to a destination of your choice (i.e Flickr for images) and a nice little touch is it will even put the URL of your content on your clipboard so you don’t have to go find it yourself. Now you just share that link with co-workers / friends / family and the whole process can take seconds quite literally. Did i mention it’s free?

3 Comments on “Pick of the week: Jing Project”

  1. #1 Betsy Weber said at 7:51 pm on April 7th, 2008:

    Thanks for making Jing your ‘Pick of the Week’! I appreciate it! Any feedback I can pass on to the Jing team?

    Thanks for using it!

    Betsy Weber, Chief Evangelist
    TechSmith

  2. #2 Shaun Bala said at 11:13 pm on April 7th, 2008:

    I really like Jing too. The ease of deployment is huge. I don’t know if Betsy is able to comment, but how well Jing fit with Camtasia & SnagIT. I think a large percentage of users will be satisified by the lighter featureset of Jing.

  3. #3 David Schultz said at 10:14 am on April 8th, 2008:

    Hey Betsy, to be honest i don’t think i’d change a thing!

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