Jing - my impressions

July 18, 2007

Ok so I’ve been playing with this Jing software for a bit now and don’t really like it. At least, not in comparison to screencast-o-matic.com, that is. Here’s why…

1. The files it saves are as a .swf file. What the heck am I going to do with that? I am sure there is a magical way to convert it, but I couldn’t figure it out, at least not in the few minutes I browsed Zamzar and media-convert.com.

2. It runs in a kind of weird way. When I finally got it going, it showed up as a little gold orb in the top right. I had to force it to use a menu bar so I’d know what the heck to do.

So Jing gets temporarily discarded from the list of cool tools, at least for me. If I wasn’t so web-based I might consider using it. Oh yeah, and a less than two minute screen capture weighs in at over 20 mb. Yeesh!

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