Here Comes the Sun

Last week I got to play with a new tool, Jing.  This is a great free tool (there is also a premium tool available) that does screen capture.  I was unfamiliar with it until last week and now might be mildly obsessed.  I even put in a call to our IT department to see if I could convince them to allow me to download it.  (Unfortunately, the answer was no, darn the luck!)

Why do I love Jing?  It's a fantastic tool to show people EXACTLY what they need to do to make something work.  I used both the screen capture to make a stagnant picture and utilized the tool to record a video.  It did take me a couple of tries to make a good video, but it was very intuitive to use and worth the download space on my computer.  Recently I was trying to create some forms and macros in Access and used a lot of YouTube videos to figure out how to create these items.  I can't remember the last time I tried to read a computer book to do something like this.  My rate of success to try and learn something new with a video is so much more than a book.

Give Jing a try!  Here is a link.  I urge you to go try this tool.  There are some drawbacks as I was unable to upload the video directly into my blog last week and it does use flash.  However, it's a very easy to use tool the next time your friend wants to know how you made that awesome form in Access!