Free and good: Screencastle and Greenshot (and Jing too)

Apr 22, 2009

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I recently came across two solid free screencast and screencapture resources and finally got a chance to run them through a quick demo. Thought I’d go all recursive and do a screencast of a screencast of the screenshot tool 🙂

The tools involved:

Screencastle – web-based screencast tool. Doesn’t get much much simpler – there’s a big red button. Click it, record, and it’ll give you a bunch of URLs to use.
Greenshot: Open Source (Windows) screen shot capture tool. Also very simple – capture, and immediately get a simple editor in which to mark up your capture.
Jing – free (windows or mac) screencast OR screenshot tool, so it kind of obviates the other two, but maybe one of them just works better for you.

So here’s my Jingcast, which shows both Screencastle and Greenshot:

And here’s the Screencastle output:

Comments

One response to “Free and good: Screencastle and Greenshot (and Jing too)”

Richard Baer

April 24, 2009

Great stuff Paul, I’ve been hammering on Jing for a while, I will look at Screencastle to see if there are features I can use that are lacking in Jing.
But the first mover principle/inertia is getting strong….. Jing does a lot, is free or at $15/year-Pro account close to it.
Check out http://www.eln.bc.ca/askaway/index.php?page=jing
for a consortial use of Jing for VR.