The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.

The Jing Project - It's Official

Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2008 by Tony Dunckel

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JING, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JING...

That's right, our little Jing Project is turning one. And we are pleased to announce that Jing is officially becoming a TechSmith product offering!

Now, don't worry, it's still free. Plus, as a token of our gratitude to all of you who have used Jing, provided feedback, and been all around good folks, we are upgrading your complimentary Screencast.com account. How does 2 GB of storage plus 2 GB of transfer sound? That's 10 times the space and double the bandwidth. Maybe it would be more appropriate to say...Happy Birthday to Jing Users!

Of course, in an effort to address your requests for additional features and alternative Jing models, we will likely have premium versions available soon. Stay tuned!

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blog.techsmith.com/mt-tb.cgi/376

Comments (28)

Thank you Jing! You guys rock!

Quote floater
Brent Bartlow :

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!!!

Quote floater

Congratulations for Jing. I even love the new Jing sun image!

Quote floater
Andre Vlcek :

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.

Quote floater

Congrads! Your whole team has been terrific; from the developers, tech support; and Amanda in sales. Very personable and appreciated!

To the questioner; the reason JING is better is video; there is nothing like this in the world that I've found; which enables (in my case stock market analysis) recording and posting to stream to our members, faster and sharper; with minimal fuss. That of course is the concept of JING as I grasp it.

I am looking forward to the premium version, which hopefully will remove the 5-min. limit somewhat; so that we don't have to do multiple videos to convey an industry group or economic analysis.

Again; kudo's for the great work; ScreenCast also.

cheers!

gene

gene inger
www.ingerletter.com

Quote floater
Sarah :

Happy Birthday! I love Jing. I use it to "follow my students home" as one of my sixth graders put it last year. My students love it and so do their parents. It's also a great help for students with special needs--they or their parents can hear and see the directions from class and practice in privacy.

Thank you!

Quote floater

Thanks for making such a delightful product! It keeps getting better and better!

Go Jing!

Quote floater
Liam r :

Happy Birthday!
And thank you guys for one the the most useful products I've ever used! - Everytime I need to screenshot something it's just waiting there up in the corner! - hell as a Graphic Design / Flash dev i've taken to just using jing to screenshot images, upload and send the link straight to the client!

Liam R

Quote floater

Happy Birthday, Jing! This application is so good!

Quote floater
Mike :

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

Quote floater

Happy Birthday Jing!!

What a great program - I use it to show my customers exactly how to do things - much easier than trying to write a detailed email!!

Keep up the good work & Congratulations again!

All the best
Jo

Quote floater
p2pvoice :

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

Thanks.

Quote floater

Thank you, Jing team! AWESOME product. I'm in IT and use it all the time on my Mac running VMware Fusion to create quick How-Tos for various applications on Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista by using different virtual machines. For instance, I can show the setup process for Outlook 2003 on XP and then have another for Outlook 2007 on Vista or Entourage on Mac OS X. I do this all using the Mac version of Jing and on a single machine, a MacBook. Here's a screencast I made showing how to use Jing: http://www.screencast.com/t/M8BlLL9gH

I believe Jing is also the only decent screen recording app on the Mac.

I also look forward to a premium version of Jing that does away with the 5-minute limit.

Would be neat to have a separate YouTube-like portal that would allow people to search for helpful screencasts that Jing users have agreed to freely share with the public.

Congrats and thanks again!

Cheers,
Derek

Quote floater
Tom :

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

Quote floater
carrier :

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

Quote floater
Michael R :

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....

Quote floater
Anonymous :

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

Quote floater
Bocaboy :

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

Quote floater

How can I save a video I've copied with Jing? I see that there's a way to retrieve the URL...

Quote floater
Duke :

Happy Birthday!

Quote floater

THANKYOU I love Jing I love it! it is so easy I convinced myself it was going to be the hardest thing ever and low and behaold the manufactureres instructions were correct it is simple and easy to use .....
Silvana

Quote floater

THANKYOU I love Jing I love it! it is so easy I convinced myself it was going to be the hardest thing ever and low and behaold the manufacturers instructions were correct it is simple and easy to use .....
Silvana

Quote floater
Jenn :

PLEASE add the feature that Snagit has to allow you to capture a full scrolling webpage. This feature in Snagit is what I love the most. It is a huge time and energy saver and I would love to have this feature on the mac.

PLEASE!

Quote floater

Love me some Jing. Been a 'user' for nearly the full year. Thanks for being so Jing-a-liscious. Keep rockin hard.

All the best,
Aaron
www.thelasvegasrealestateblog.com

Quote floater
jj :

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

Thanks!!!!

Quote floater
Anonymous :

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

Quote floater
Mike Curtis, TechSmith :

@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

Quote floater
martin :

I love jing. You save my entire life, but there's one thing that i concern. I had a hard time installing it. I have to download MS FrameWork 3.0 which is ..., but it worth it thanks,

Quote floater

Post a comment


Currently Reading:
“The Jing Project - It's Official”

This page contains a single entry from The Jing Blog posted on July 22, 2008 9:50 AM.


Previous entry:
Jing for Windows/Mac Version 1.6 update.

Next entry:
Solution if double-clicking a saved video doesn't work for you.


All recent entries can be found on the main page or by looking through the archives.