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The Many Uses Of Jing - "Quimple" But Not Problem-Free
Jing is free to download, available for Mac and Windows computers, and (if you register to share your Jing screencasts) comes with a free account on Screencast.com. I was impressed to see that the free account did not expire in 60 days (as it would if you just went to Screencast.com and registered for a free account) but did not expire until 2015). The free account comes with 200MB of storage and 1GB of bandwidth, which seemed generous enough. If users find they are using Jing to the degree it exceeds the monthly limits, offering up increases in account storage and bandwidth for a fee are necessary to offer this free to everyone. Offers to upgrade my bandwidth, for a fee - $21.95 for 100GB. If you choose not to pay, the screencast is just no longer available until the next month’s cycle starts. I do not blame Techsmith for needing to fund the service, but this should be a caution for anyone hoping to use Jing as a completely free screencast option. If your screencast is large and/or even moderately well viewed, you are likely to need pay the price for the appropriate level of hosting. Do remember that Jing is in beta and Techsmith may well change the terms or provide other alternatives. At this point, if you want to use Jing, another option is to plan on hosting the screencast on your own Web site. Unfortunately, the ease of using Jing to produce and share a screencast gets lost if you want to try this approach. It is still easy to record and save, but Jing just saves a single .swf Flash file. While you can just upload the .swf and point to it with a link, it gets more difficult to embed it on a page with a site’s navigation features, branding, commentary, and other content. Screencast.com is the ideal hosting solution for Jing because it’s designed specifically for high-fidelity screen content and won’t distort your media when being viewed. That being said, sharing has a broader definition. Since Jing is still in development, it is likely that it will change quite a bit in the near future. A few things may be extending the sharing options outside of just Screencast.com. With those additional sharing options, you’ll be able to get the URL or embed code returned as well - making everything described above dead simple to do with Jing. Think of Jing as a supplement to all your chat discussions, email threads, forum posts and blog entries. It sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture and share your stuff at a moment’s notice. Simply select an area of your screen, capture it as an image or record it as a video, and then click Share. Jing conveniently places a URL to your content on your clipboard ready for you to paste the URL into any of your conversations. Screencast.com is a web hosting service from TechSmith Corporation. It’s a premier hosting service specifically made for screen video content. It does not change or diminish the resolution of your content. It provides detailed permissions that you can administer so you control who can access your media and you retain ownership of the media you upload. Screencast.com serves as the web hosting backend to the Jing Project, enabling TechSmith to provide you with instant hosting and sharing of your content. And anyone may use Jing. And It’s free for now! Here’s the deal; Jing isn’t a product right now—it’s a project to figure out whether it fills a need or provides a useful service. They're asking for both your participation and feedback on this concept. As they learn what you want from this, they’ll have a better idea what the pricing and business model might look like in the future. Uses of Jing seems pretty exciting and since it's easy to use, it may able become a lot more useful to large amounts of people, compared to the traditional screencasting software on the market. Jing can be used on Flickr, together with Skype, for Tech Support and Forums, for product demos and even to explain how to do fancy moves in your favorite Nintendo game. I think many schools would have a good use of Jing to write instructions, explanations and tutorials. Many students might be able to use Jing to enhance their reports, as well. Schools and students might do well to start using Jing as soon as possible while it's free. Angela Wickenberg
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