SnagIt will automatically drop a nice screenie of each of your captured sequences as a sequentially numbered file right into a directory of your choosing! That makes it worthy by those stats alone.

It does so much more though. If you need to capture all of a scrolling window – easy – SnagIt will do that for you.

So many really cool features in a tool that really is affordable and flexible. Worth the money.

For online tools, I’ve found that http://www.activecollab.com serves my needs the best for online collaborative project management. It’s affordable, but does require IT assistance to install on your own host. If you’ve got the means, I’d recommend giving this one a shot.

Nathan

Here is a great article that sheds some light on some of SnagIt’s great features:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/snagit-screenshot-capture,review-1127.html

Sadly, there is no SnagIt for Mac and it is by far the most missed application from my windows arsenal.

Cathy – thanks for mentioning that Skitch is a useful business program, I had tried it out previously and found it a bit . . . um . . . pink. I am currently downloading it again . . .

Wonderful post, I am going to use these guidelines when creating my next ‘epic’ course – I think highlighting which information you left out with comments explaining the thoughts behind the decision is priceless!

Matt.

If anyone reading this is on a Mac, I’d recommend trying Skitch to mark up screen shots easily. It’s from Plasq, the same company that makes ComicLife, which I use to make the comics that show up here occasionally. Ignore all the pink hearts; it’s a useful business program:

http://plasq.com/skitch

1. So sorry for calling you “Carol” I really meant Cathy… I don’t know what I was thinking!

2. Those are all great reasons for Snagit.

I had no idea! I’ve been creating some of those rollovers without it, but any tool that makes things easier is great in my book! I’m not sure that I’m ready to shell out money for it just yet, but it’s getting more tempting.

Thanks!

This means you can take a screenshot or just open an image with SnagIt and turn the image into a standalone SWF interaction in which users move their mouse over parts of the graphic to have information appear. You might also be able to have images also pop up from images–I don’t remember, and I’m working on a Mac these days so can’t try it out. I did create several slick rollovers that popped up text.

First, I really like the blog. You’ve got some very useful ideas here that I’m learning a lot from. Thanks!

My Question: What’s the advantage of using Snagit over a simple Alt+Print Screen, Paste, & Crop in any Graphics program?

I’ve got colleagues who swear by it and I’ve never understood the need to pay for something that I can do for free…

-Nathan

There are a lot of great apps out there, and some I thought would be great, but in the end i find the fewer programs I use to manage my business and projects, the more likely i’ll keep those files updated.. Soon as I have 15 URL’s to visit and 15 sets of user names and passwords to keep track of (which by the way, ‘Any Password’ is the greatest password management program I’ve ever found, a life saver!) i tend to give up on the new technology.