Freeloader Friday Download of the Week

Catch and Release: Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

Skitch

I must apologize for the fact that this app is still in invite-only beta. For those lucky enough to get in on the beta, its become the application for shooting and sharing their desktop. Skitch takes screenshots, allows you to edit the image and then share it via your MySkitch account.

Skitch includes many image-enhancing tools adding circles, arrows and text to images. There are other useful features like capture from iSight, iPhoto integration and a very slick interface. This is a beta application, and I have to say 3 of my first 5 screen caps crashed the app.

Jing

Jing is another shoot-and-share application. This one is cross platform and aims to integrate into the OS. Jing allows not only still image capture, but video capture as well.

I didn't have the most success with Jing, I also experienced crashes on capture, but your experience may be better. The promise of recording real-time video of your desktop is worth the shot.

ImageWell

My long-time favorite capture-and-share application has recently been updated. Among the new features is the ability to upload to Flickr, ImageShack and SmugMug. ImageWell is the only one of this week's picks that is Panther compatible.

LogMeIn

This isn't a screen cap utility, but it does allow you to share your screen. A preview version of this remote desktop tool is available now for Mac. It runs as a menu extra and allows you to share your desktop with others (and vice versa) via the 'net.

That wraps our look at screen sharing. Time to tidy that desktop and get social.

Brian   


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