Jing Roars Like a Lion!
It didn't used to. When Apple gave us their first preview of OS X 10.7, code named Lion, Jing rolled over and played dead. In fact, all of TechSmith's screen recording software tools choked on the new OS. This wasn't good.
Our development teams went into hyperdrive and came up with a new way to capture screen video on Macs and the updated versions of our products released today are testaments to the agility of our development organization as a whole.
For Jing specifically, this release also marks the last update for PowerPC Macs. PPC Mac users won't be prompted to upgrade to a newer version of Jing until they migrate to a newer Mac platform. We didn't want to cut the PPC users out and leave them high and dry as that would suck, and isn't our style.
Download the new version now! (It will work on your current operating system AND on Lion when it's released.)
To be clear:
- Today's Jing for Mac update supports Lion (in addition to previously supported OS versions).
- All Mac Jing users should install the update (even PPC Mac users).
- From today forward, Mac PPC users will no longer receive Jing updates. However, today's version can still be used indefinitely.
As always, if you notice anything unusual after updating to this new version of Jing, or want to send us feedback please let us know. Thank you for using Jing...Rrrraaaarrrr!
-Dirk Frazier, Jing and Screencast.com Product Manager
PS - If you use Snagit or Camtasia on Mac, those apps have been updated to be ready for the Lion release, too.
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FYI, the email sent out by TechSmith notifying them about this appears to most people as a phishing attempt. All links in the document are not from techsmith.com, and the way the content was written would appear suspicious.
Thanks for the heads up Alex. I don't know what specific measures our marketing communications people use to avoid having our email communications appear as spam or phishing attempts, but I'm sure they'll be interested to hear you point of view. I'll pass this on to them and hopefully we can avoid such appearances in the future.
Cheers,
Dirk Frazier
Jing and Screencast.com Product Manager
can you guys please remove the way too large notification window (uploaded to ftp server) and bring back the old smaller version without the auto hide checkbox etc.?
great piece of software jing is! love it and use it every day... :-)
Hi,
I am hving problems with Jing on Lion even with the new version as all the custom buttons are missing
I've noticed a real performance degradation with Jing since I migrated to Lion. It slows to an absolute crawl at times. One of the beauties of Jing is that I can quickly use it in my workflow and unfortunately it isn't as useful now.