Not a gadget today, but a piece of software that I thought some of you would find both interesting and useful. Jing is a screen capture tool that sits on your computer screen unobtrusively until you need to capture the whole screen or an area.

Not only does Jing capture still images (which it saves in .png format), but it also captures videos too. These video clips and images can be saved to your computer or uploaded directly to the screencast.com website.

There are two versions of Jing available also; a free version and a pro version. The pro version costs just under $15 which is about £7 in UK currency. The benefits of going pro are:

• Record full-motion video from your screen
• Share faster with smaller video files
• Upload straight to YouTube
• Strip Jing logos & links from your videos

Jing is also easy to use because of the simple controls. You’ll be up and capturing in minutes once the software is installed. So there you have it, if you need a piece of software that allows you to effortlessly capture still and moving images of your desktop then I’d recommend Jing to do the job for you. There’s nothing else like it for the PC.