Jing Project - GREAT screencast tool

Jing is software that allows you to make screencasts and screenshots. It is absolutely fabulous software! Simple, easy to use and it integrates with screencast.com which allows you to send your newly made screencast on-the-fly to the web. It encodes the screencast video with shockwave flash (SWF) by default.

The upside and downside to it is that as they say: “Jing isn’t a product right now—it’s a project.” which is great, BUT “It’s free for now!” which is quite sad… So while it is free, you can go grab it for both Mac OSX and Windoze.

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5 Comments to "Jing Project - GREAT screencast tool"

• Chris M said: On 09/08/2007 at 4:29 pm

  I think more and more companies are realising the potential of making money online by selling great products and services, and therefore most web ventures from here on will end up being paid for services, which is sad, let’s just hope the Open Source realm maintain their excellent work!

• Charl van Niekerk said: On 09/08/2007 at 7:50 pm

  There will always be an open source solution available, I’m sure. What irritates me about these projects is that I always hear “Mac OS X and Windoze”… “Mac OS X and Windoze”… and so it goes on. Where is Linux in the equation? There are lots of Linux users out there. If you have an app that works on Mac OS X, it’s a lot quicker to get it to run on Linux than Windoze I’m sure. After all, Mac OS X is based on BSD. Personally I just think it’s lame. Typical proprietary software and way of thinking…

• Stii said: On 09/08/2007 at 11:52 pm

  @Chris: I think you are right. It can become an expensive exercise if everything needs to be paid for one of these days. Go Open…

  @Charl: If a company develop propriety software (lame as it may be) it is in the end their prerogative for which platform they would like to develop for. No matter how much you are going to argue the concept with Google (for example) they will not open their sources anytime soon! You will not stop using Google for that reason now would you?

• Stii said: On 09/09/2007 at 12:06 am

  @ Charl: I believe you would be as shocked as I am, but Microsoft released their Silverlight and it supports Linux! w00t! Saw it on tectonic: http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1698

• Charl van Niekerk said: On 09/12/2007 at 9:06 pm

  I’m not really saying that they need to open their sources; my pain is that even with their proprietary sh*t they are not supporting Linux. With the amount of us out there I really think this is funny. I could understand it a couple of years ago but I’m sure these days the Mac community isn’t that much larger than the Linux community. Maybe I’m totally wrong, but I think there are lots of Linux users that would be interested in doing a screencast, even if it’s only to show off their hacked Beryl setup.

Spit it out!

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