TechSmith is offering two popular titles as free downloads. Both SnagIt (screen capture) and Camtasia Studio (screencast capture) are utilities I have used for years. Now the company is making last year’s versions available for free.
These free versions do not expire. The hope of the company is that you will like them enough to pay for an upgrade to the latest versions. If you upgrade these free versions, TechSmith is offering the new versions at half price.
If you capture web pages, one feature of SnagIt may save you a lot of time. As the picture on the right shows, SnagIt can capture an entire scrolling web page in one shot. This is much easier than trying to capture one screen at a time and pasting them together.
Camtasia Studio is used to create screencasts like those used in Atomic Learning. Basically, anything you do on your screen can be captured in real time while you provide audio in the form of a voice over. All you need is a microphone and you can create custom tutorials for anything on your computer.
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