Today's giveaway is not a bad app but I think that VIDEO Tutorials are nowadays more effective than just screenshots whenever you need to teach something online.

So why not download the FREE & PORTABLE version of the award-winning software CAMSTUDIO??

http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Video/Windows-Portable-Applications-CamStudio-Portable.shtml

Other FREE great tool for this are also "BB FlashBack Express" and "TipCam":

http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack_FreePlayer.aspx
http://www.utipu.com/

Other nice FREE ALTERNATIVES, capable of creating great tutorials from screenshots and videos are the following ones:

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
http://www.techsmith.com/jing-features.html
http://www.webinaria.com/record.php
http://www.uvnc.com/screenrecorder/
http://goview.com/goldwyn/spring/play?method=indexPage

As usual you can take your pick....

And if you are instead looking for a great screen capture tool, then "PicPick" and/or "Gadwin PrintScreen" are the right tools for you:

http://www.picpick.org/features
http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/screen_capture.htm

The first one can even capture entire websites or documents that scroll beyond the visible section of the screen.

Portable version can be found on Softpedia website!!

Enjoy!

My 2 cents for today's giveaway!!

Giovanni (Prince of Freebies)  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+188)

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Program does what it says and for those of us who are expert in css well you can create your own layouts for the HTML export ;-)

Only thing I saw missing in this tool is the ability to import on top of the screenshots clip art and additional photo's especialy transparent png's would be a nice touch.

Shawn  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+68)

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Not to threadcrap, but I want to thank Giovanni (#4) for all the work that he does. His listings of freeware offerings not only shows all of us alternatives to payware, but helps give the developers valuable feedback to help drive their product improvement efforts.

THANK YOU GIOVANNI!!!!

Ben  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+59)

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Tried to make a simple step by step sample tutorial with this but could not capture items in the start menu... this needs a time delay capture option or some other way of capturing menu items. Hotkeys do not work with menu items.

James Madison  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+16)

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Absolutely agree with DoktorThomas, trying to follow instructions on a video (especially the stuff that appears on Youtube) is an exercise in futility. Usually the screen is too small, or too fuzzy to see what's going on and the text is unreadable. The pace is too hurried and most people simply are NOT very good at making videos (despite what all their friends might tell them).
Give me a set of decently explained, clear screeshots, that I can follow at my own pace any time.

Pete  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+15)

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