Free Screen Capture with Jing Project

I’ve always been a great fan of using screen captures to document and explain things. I use SnagIt from TechSmith every day. These folks also make the Camtasia software for making screencasts (mini movies of your computer screen.) They have a free beta of software that kind of combines a simplified set of features from both SnagIt and Camtasia. It’s Called Jing. There is a Windows and a Mac version of the free downloadable client. It’s worth a try if you’re looking for a simple and free screen capture utility.

You can save your captures to a file, to a Flikr account, or to a Screencast account.  (Screencast offers a free trial for 60 days.) You don’t need a screencast account to use the utility though.

Online Backup Too Cheap to Ignore!

OK, Internet backup is just too cheap to Ignore. The prices start at Free and are very reasonable for what you get. I’ve tried Mozy, IDrive, and several others. Most of the free services offer you 2GB for personal use. If you want to use it for business purposes they want you to pay something and I think that’s fair, particularly as the prices are now very cheap. I encourage small businesses to start using one of these services for your important files. Identify the most important files in your organization and ask yourself; what would you do if you lost them? These are the files you should backup on one of these services. I think IDrive is the one with the best features.

You want some other solution to backup your workstations and servers, but in some cases where your total backup is small IDrive could even do that job.

The best way to learn how easy it is to protect your most important data is to sign up for a Free account.

Give it a try! (Click that box you know you should try it!)