Screen capture utilities have been important in the work I do for a rather long time. I won't bore you with why. Suffice to say that I use them almost daily.
When most of my life was spent on PCeees, I used TechSmith's products SnagIt and Camtasia. On the Mac, Ambrosia Software's Snapz Pro X was my weapon of choice.
A month ago, I began using Skitch from the very smart people at Plasq who also brought us the fun and very usable ComicLife. I'm a Skitch addict. I've used it about four times today alone.
I've just discovered that TechSmith has a similar (yet different) screen cap program with some great video sharing capabilities. [via] It's called Jing - and it's available for Mac or PC as a free download (whilst in Beta, I assume). Both Skitch and Jing are loaded on my Mac Pro. We will see which gets the most screen time, as it were. (I would rather that Jing not add a widget to my screen, but...)
Just capturing the Jing logo (with Jing) and the Skitch heart (with Skitch), I can already tell you that I prefer Skitch's file handling for saving on my computer. Though Jing does have more saving/sharing options - its just not as elegant. And the Skitch interface is much more attractive.
