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Jing is free...and so is the latest update! Current Jing users will get the update automatically; everyone else can download Jing here (Mac/PC).

If you've used Jing, you know that it's all about lightning-fast screen capture and recording—with instant sharing! If Snagit were a fancy SLR camera, Jing would be one of those compact point-and-shoot deals.

Here's the full rundown of new-ness in this Jing update:

Output to Snagit & Camtasia Studio
Send your Jings to Snagit or Camtasia Studio and edit like a pro. Use Snagit to edit screen captures and Camtasia Studio to edit screencast videos and produce them in various file formats. So if you start a screen capture with Jing and realize you need more editing muscle...just click to send the image directly to Snagit editor! (See how...)

Aspect ratio
No more wasting time resizing those images or videos, now you can know for sure that your Jing captures will fit right into your blog, website, or wherever you want them. Just hold down the Ctrl key (for standard sizes) or Shift key (for widescreen sizes) while selecting a region. (See how...)

Enable commenting on your Jing content
Want feedback or discussion about your Jings? When you share your stuff through Screencast.com, you can now enable commenting on that content from within Jing!

Share to different Screencast.com folders
You can now choose to share your stuff to any folder you have set up within Screencast.com. Just create a new button for each different folder (Jing allows up to 8 unique buttons). Want to keep personal and work stuff separate? Now you can!

And for Jing Pro users only...

Webcam capture
Put yourself in the picture! Provide a quick "in person" intro to your videos, send video postcards to your kids away at school, or even show off your latest big purchase by recording with your web camera. (See it in action...)

We've received dozens of great stories from readers about why they've chosen TechSmith products. Here are three in brief...

“When one of those Microsoft error messages pops up—the ones that can't be captured by highlighting text and copying it—Snagit solves the problem by allowing hassle-free capture of the exact language and any details. That makes the next call to tech support easy, because all the words are right there—without the pain of copying down the message word by word.”
–Dick Lutz, editor, MainStreetWire.com

“Snagit is the best software product on the market. I use it in virtually every aspect of my job—on average 20-30 times a day—and tell a new person about Snagit almost every week.”
–Sue Armstrong, Business Management Consultant (and owner),
Database Labs, Inc.

“I use Snagit in my genealogy searches, to capture pieces of historical documents as I find them in databases both in Canada and Ireland. It is tremendously useful in reducing the time needed to follow the twisting and turning trail of family history through several countries and periods of time. What an awesome tool!”
–Maureen Meikle

Tell us why you use Snagit! And if you like the nifty smiley faces above, you can download them as Snagit stamps.

Did you know that you can use Snagit as a printer? That's right, you can print to Snagit instead of printing to paper...and you can do it from any application installed on your computer. Snagit users have reported a variety of cool and interesting uses for Snagit Printer, like saving time when checking in for a flight or when booting up far from home. Dr. P.A. Hulley, a scientist from South Africa, wrote in to say that printing a graph from Microsoft Excel to Snagit Printer results in a higher resolution image than capturing it off the screen...which makes journal editors happy.

So give Snagit Printer a whirl and see how it's useful in your everyday work!