Jing is a free screen capture utility put out by the makers of Snagit. I’m a big fan of Snagit and it’s feature rich screen capture capabilities. Jing is like it’s little brother, it doesn’t have all the features and power of Snagit, but I think it more than makes up for it in ease of use and the ability to upload and share your content directly to FTP site,  Flicker, YouTube and Screencast.com (Screencast.com is TechSmiths own content management system) as well as a local folder or network drive.

One cool feature of Jing is the so called Sun Launcher that resides on the edge of your desktop.

When you hover over the Sun Launcher it expands and presents you with the option to capture a screen image.

Jing also allows basic annotes features such as text box, arrow, highlight, or rectangle.