Prior to yesterday I had been using Camtasia, a paid screen recorder software tool which I stopped using after my 30 day trial demo. The new free screen recorder that I found is called Jing. If you haven’t heard of it, you have to check it out. Jing enables you to easily record what’s taking place on your screen with audio included. I’ve included an example of the McCain video that I recorded yesterday.

The software integrates into Screencast.com and enables users to upload and store their videos for free making it embeddable anywhere on the web. I honestly never knew this existed but this has literally saved me a ton of money and a ton of time looking for other tools as it is extremely intuitive. If you wish to capture images as well and have them immediately uploaded to Flickr that is possible as well through a few quick steps.

The one thing that I have not been able to figure out yet is how to resize screencasts that I’ve created. I’ve modified variables within the embed code but that still doesn’t seem to work. Enough of my technical mumbo jumbo though. If you need a free screen recorder, then you have to go check out Jing which is available for both Mac and Windows. Seriously, this is a must have application for any serious blogger or other content creator on the web.

As a quick heads up, the video below takes some time to load because it is highly video intensive but most screen recordings take up an extremely small amount of space.

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