Brynn Marie Evans

I just tested out Jing on my laptop (a MacBook) to see if I could use it for capturing people’s online activities for my upcoming research project. The Jing Project is actually a part of TechSmith (the folks who make Morae and Camtasia screen capture software)…BUT, at least for the moment, Jing if free! Jing lets you take still images or videos of your desktop and then upload and share the files to screencast.com, flickr, an FTP site, or a shared folder. This sounded like a potentially great option for recording and sharing desktop activity remotely, which is exactly what I’m looking for. However, you can only record videos for 5-minutes at a time! I imagine this limitation is due to Jing’s freeness and non-beta “beta” testing period, and perhaps when they release the product for purchasing, they will permit longer video captures. While the uploading/sharing went quite smoothly, I will need users to record their online activities in longer increments. Oh well. iShowU is back on my list; only I have to figure out the best method for transferring files from users’ remote laptops to the DCOG-HCI server…