Jing makes it easier to communicate with others by showing and telling what's on your computer screen
Have you ever had a program, document, presentation or web page on your screen you needed to show someone but you needed to describe to them something about the page in words or maybe by circling parts of the page to tell them? Ever found that frustratingly difficult to do between trying to screen capture part of your screen then paste a .jpg into Open Office, Google Docs or MS Powerpoint? I know we have here at Beck’s Cafe. But now there’s a tool called Jing that makes this process crazy easy to do.
Jing let’s you capture your screen then paste it or save it and then send the URL of it, to anyone. You can annotate your screen by drawing lines, arrows or highlighting. You can narrate your screen by recording your voice describing what you want people to see. We’ve been using Jing here at Beck’s Cafe both on MS Vista and Windows XP machines this whole week and it’s worked wonderfully. We’ ve captured web pages, and parts of other documents, drawn lines and arrows, narrated what we wanted (some would say yipped orders – ouch!) In every case Jing has made our communication easy.
What are some uses for Jing? They list the following ideas though we are sure once you use it you’ll have a bunch of your own:
- Collaborate on design projects
- Share a snapshot of a photo or document
- Narrate your vacation (or new baby!) photos
- Show the results of a software bug in action
- Comment verbally on homework (what a great tool for on-line education!)
And of course, as the Frugal Tech LOVES a good value, Jing falls square into that realm. Jing has a nicely featured free version AND a pro version with more capability. We’d recommend Jing and suggest you give it a whirl too and help your communication shine! Get your copy of Jing at this link: Jing Project
