Happy Birthday, Jing!

Thank you for all your hard work in making this program! It's been one of the most useful programs on my PC!

GO JING!!!

Hi;
I use SNAGIt 9 and Camtasia and I love TECHSMITH products. But I cannot figure out 'WHY" JING is better to use than SNAGIt. I can capture and send images even quicker in SNAGIT. Perhaps the video recording aspect should be integrated into Camtasia to avoid duplicity and kepp simplicity.

My Jing stopped launching after the "project" was over. It still states that its free.

Any ideas whats wrong?

ps: Its a very handy tool// Thx

Mike

Congrats!
A TechSmith product vs an open source product on SourceForge - what is the differenece?

Thanks.

When I update to v1.5 I had a problem making the automatic update work. Here's a link to the comment I posted then:

http://blog.jingproject.com/2008/04/jing_for_windows_version_15.html#comment-71083

The problem is the same for Jing 1.6. I cleared my FF browser cache, tried to update using IE7, and nada.

I love Jing, too, but really wish I could get it to auto update.

Cheers,

Tom

Thanks guys...I love jing for mac. It's just plain simple to use!

Hi,

I have been using your program to for a long time.
It helps me a lot.

Although i like it i have some issues really:
-Screencast.com's pages are bloated; i checked a page with a movie clip in it. It loads all kinds of libraries and stuff you really don't need for such a simple page the page is 500Kb big and takes 7 ! seconds to load... really to much.....
-Usability: i have noticed with sevral people that they tend to click on the link Try it Yourself. The reason behind this is that people are accustomed to clickable things being underlined. So if they see an inviting text they stop scanning the page.
They also miss the videorecorder metaphore on the page. They see " a blurrey image with a triangle in it " instead of the playbutton.Since the triangle doesn't change color or shape when they move the mouse over it they are not triggered to click the arrow.
A case of over-designing a metaphore.
This also has to do with the fact that people are subconsciously trained not to look at images for being clickable since that generally is an advertisement.
-Then there is the error when people are using IE6 without ActiveX: people get a javascript error TWICE so they stop the page instead of clicking trough the second message.

So when you redesign the page you might want to do the following:
-move the try it link to below, the purpose of the page is to click the video or image not to try it yourself
-redesign the play metaphore, give feedback like changing colors or size of the thing to click. Perhaps just show the normal flash or windows playcontrols.
-do not give messages with dialog boxes, instead change code of page to cope with new situation, afterall the task is simple : show an image or play a video....
-minimize all the libraries.... really to much and the load time is 7 seconds.. i used httpwatch to see what went across the line..

Oh well my 2 cents....

woo! just set up a Jing account and yes tis was my birthday yesterday =) so thx 4 the prezzy, Jing rules!!!!

Thanks for supplying the only viable Mac solution from Techsmith! Now, let's see a version of SnagIt for the Mac!

Jing is such a great product!! One of the most useful tools on my computer.

Thanks!!!!

I am unclear on how to save the videos I create with jing. I have a mac.

@Anonymous,
I made a quick video showing how to save a video locally. http://screencast.com/t/bVF6ewiy

Also, if you save a video locally and it doesn't open when you double-click it, read this post for the solution.

Finally if you want to get a variety of Jing wallpaper for your computer's desktop, check out: http://blog.jingproject.com/2007/10/jing_freebies.html

Hope that helps!
Mike Curtis, TechSmith

thanks for your informations.