Feb
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| Skitch & Jing are Cool |
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| Wednesday, 20 February 2008 | ||||||||||
Some of these apps may come and go from your hard drive, but Skitch and Jing are two that I never plan to get rid of. Both can do a lot more than what I describe below, but just for what I use it for, they've become indispensable. Skitch Skitch is the ultimate screenshot app in my opinion. At it's most basic, it's like OSX's built in Grab. However, once you take the screenshot, you can instantly start drawing, typing, and drawing arrows to things in the shot, then drag or use a keyboard combo to send it in an email. Perfect for when you are working with a Photoshop comp or HTML layout and have questions for the graphic designer or project manager and would rather "show" them than write out a long description of the issue. Skitch is currently in public beta, which I guess means it won't be free forever. Jing Jing is past the beta stage and is just free. I'm not sure why they're just giving it away, but I'm not complaining. Simply put, Jing makes flash videos (with audio) of any portion of your desktop. This has beceome invaluable for creating short tutorials for clients on how to accomplish some of the basic admin tasks in Joomla. It's also useful for repeating a client's steps to produce an error, then sharing it with the client to confirm the steps, etc. Jing gives you the option to upload your screencasts to Jing's servers, FTP to the site of your choosing, or save locally. (Jing can also do screenshots with post screenshot editing and Flickr upload, but appears to be missing the straight-to-email option I use so often in Skitch. The briefest of demos Here's a brief (audio muted) Jing screencast showing Skitch in action as I prepare to write this post: link      Add as favourites (0) | Print | E-mail
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