Jing, screen capture and podcasts

I've already tried out and blogged about screencast-o-matic for Cam23 things, so was keen to test out Jing to see how it compares. I liked Jing's sun tool, and found it easy to use for both screenshots and screencasting. However I was a bit put off by the fact that you seemed to need to sign up for screencast.com for sharing a link to your capture (even if you didn't want to share, it seemed there wasn't an option to continue without it), and to edit the capture needed another tool to be downloaded.

Screenshots - Jing vs Lightshot
I will probably stick to Lightshot for screen capture, as this offers the same facility to share your capture via a generated link, but without the need the register with another product. Lightshot can also be edited without having to download or sign up for another product. Both Jing and Lightshot were equally slow to upload screen captures for sharing.

Screencasting - Jing vs Screencast-o-matic
There isn't much to choose between Screencast-o-matic and Jing in terms of features or ease of use. The main difference seemed to me to be whether you prefer the cursor to be shown (Jing) or replaced by a yellow circle (Screencast-o-matic) when viewing your screencast.

For my thoughts on podcasts, see my earlier post. Thanks to cpd23 for pointing out the arcadia@cambridge podcasts and Careers Group University of London podcasts – both look interesting and useful.