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Jing Pro available here ($14.95 USD per year)
DESCRIPTION
Jing is a screen capture application that allows you to select and capture parts of your screen and save that area as a static picture or even a movie.

Then you can add arrows, text and box highlights to draw further attention to the area you want to highlight.

The thing that makes Jing unique is that it has a "share" button, which allows you to share the image or video with a friend by connecting to the free screencast.com image hosting solution. Click share, it uploads your media behind the scenes, and places the link to the screen in your clipboard. You can then email or paste that URL into your chat application for your friends to see.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.17074: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later.

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Developer:TechSmith
Downloads:25,175
  - Version d/l:1,938
Utilities:Desktop
License:Free
Date:20 Jul 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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Aug 17 2009

BROCK SAMSON  Anyone know of a way to capture system audio (not from the mic) at the same time so that you end up with a video with sound?  
(Version 2.1.17074)

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Nov 10 2008
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HOTCHICK  I tried it some time ago and gave it another chance.

Much improved.  
(Version 1.6.10389m)

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May 24 2008
*****

AYUB  Excellent program. Shortest method of capturing movie session of your desktop. Great work. Thanks for giving it Free.  
(Version 1.6.6249)

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Jan 31 2008

M A V I C  Downloader beware. Software is listed as "free" but requires you to sign up for an account on a web site. They have a long TOS which includes:

"you grant to TechSmith a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, distribute, and display that content."  
(Version 1.4.4200)

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May 9 2008

NEONBLUE2  Unless you host your recordings on their website, they have no access to them. Since you don't have to host them on their server, I don't see a problem.  
(Version 1.6.6151)

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Nov 17 2009
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MODEST GINGER  Jing would be great if it didn't sit in the background and eat CPU cycles. Take a look at Activity Monitor and look at the total CPU Time used up by Jing.

I was trying to figure out why my MBP battery usage was higher than usual. Sure enough, Jing increases average battery usage by 1.0W... when completely idle. That's not okay.  
(Version 2.1.17074)

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Apr 12 2009

EJ1  Jing! appears to work when recording, but when previewed or played back all I get is a black screen with white arrow cursors bouncing around. Sounds ok... no video.

iMac 17" 800 mhz PPC, Flash 9 and 10, OS X 10.4.11  
(Version 2.0.14405)

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Apr 13 2009

EJ1  I also have Quicktime 7.6  
(Version 2.0.14405)

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Apr 16 2009

EJ1  I found that I had the screen colors set to thousands instead of millions. I got it to work, sort of...Captured video looked good in preview but I could never get a email linked video to play back properly. I finally gave up on it.  
(Version 2.0.14405)

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Jan 31 2009

IMHO  Downloaded the fore last version of Jing (freeware), that worked on my iMac G5 with Leopard. After two days the program invited me to download an updated version. Downloaded it, but immediately after installing and touching the sun the first time it vanishes. Downloaded the last version since then several times, but nothing helps.   
(Version 2.0.13462)

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Nov 6 2008

HALODEMO002  Awesome. Really fast. Except, the sun is a little annoying to look at and may cause a burn-in. Otherwise, pretty awesome.  
(Version 1.6.8006M)

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Nov 6 2008

THECAP  Doesn't even start up without [trying to force] a subscription to something that I neither want nor need...

Moved to trash.  
(Version 1.6.8006M)

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Jul 22 2008

µø˜˚´¥  This program was great at version 1.25 - I still use that version. Since 1.26, bugs started creeping in. If you can find 1.25 on the net somewhere, use that instead.  
(Version 1.6.8006M)

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