During my work week, I always need to take quite a few screenshots and sometimes a few videos of my desktop. I am an avid user of Camtasia Studio and SnagIt from Techsmith, so I was excited to take a look at a new “project” it has going: Jing.

Jing is a simple way to take a picture of your desktop, or record a quick video as well. It offers some basic editing such as adding text, and offers the ability to save or upload to screencast.com.

So far I have been pretty impressed as this offers a quick way to record your desktop if you don’t need the full power of Camtasia. It’s free for now, so go and check it out.

• Jing Project

Tags: jing, techsmith, camtasia, snagit