Yes there are lot of screen captures out there #1, #2 and most do not work consistently or save in the same amount of format as Jet. PicPick is buggy and FastStone Capture is NO LONGER free and works with Windows 7 very buggily. I think a lot of these free compares are total boondoogles and should really be checked and validated... they are close to spam.

Jimsock (#11)
http://grabilla.com/02c0d-93701980-8724-44e8-a823-e4b2469015a4.html

'nuff said.

Thank you for this software
I have downloaded, reviewed both the website, and the tutorial. Because I work with offline clients in both photography and video adding in copy, I really think this software piece will really be useful. Many times I laugh at the comments on here because someone has given bad reviews without looking at the possible usefulness of the software. If you are working and marketing on the internet there are many software programs you might captivate in your corral and find a month or two down the line they become very useful. Think ahead about what the software will do and check it out don't just give a negative review. I think this software is going to help me and I really like it. Thankx again to jet Screenshot and the GOTD Team

Pro: uploads and saves link to clipboard
Con #1: if you forget to paste link before a new capture then what?
Con #2: individual link for each screenshot
A multi-clipboard would help.
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I believe the best way is by utilizing Sky Drive or similar online storage.
In my case I have Faststone Capture, save screen captures and edits to a folder in Sky Drive on desktop. Which will be synced with online.
Could be 100 pix in that folder but it only takes one link to see them all. Until I make that folder private again or remove it.
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Can also save a copy to pictures if needed.

"It’s hard to explain why it is cool using text"

This turned me away more than anything else. This is a RIDICULOUSLY unprofessional thing to put in your product description.

It serves NO purpose.

This is a useful program, for those who need it. Having said that, this version ("Home") stores your files for 6 months and normally costs $14.95/year.

The normal Free version stores your files for 30 days and the PRO version (#29.95/year) stores files for 1 year "at least".

People should also be aware of the following condition in their terms of service:

"You are giving us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, reproduce, delete, etc. your content or its parts."

Kind of takes some of the gloss off it for me. But like I said - useful for some.

Due to license only being for one year, I will not be keeping this one. BTW, it does not put an entry into All Programs List or a desktop icon, just a miniature icon in system tray and listing on start menu, FWIW.

To @41 Peter

This isn't a competition thing...both offer excellent opinins and opinions based on experience or knowledge or even research.... While one may offer free links..the other offers reviews...both are excellent in my book and both are welcome to express their views.

Keep up the good work Ashraf and Giovanni

Just my opinion on the subject..

What a great program. There are so many times that I want to send a photo or image to a company where they have those "Fill In the Blank" e-mails so you can not put an attachment. Now I can just put a URL in the return and they will get my image. This is great!! Looks like it may be worth jumping through those hoops to register. I dislike the only good for one year part. Except for anti-virus, I never had a program that expired.

One thing occurred to me after rereading my above comments: One might say, 'Yes but you can do all of that remote help thing through Windows' Remote Access.'

The vital difference to me is that doing it using the Jet Screenshot method is that YOU will actually learn from the experience.

I downloaded, installed and activated the software easily as per the developer's instructions in #58 in Win 7 Ult x64. At the same time I easily virtualized Jet Screenshot flawlessly.

Jet Screenshot is probably the most misunderstood software I have ever seen on GOTD. It is true that it does not necessarily have advantages to basic PC users.... games, sharing family photos, even producing tutorials. However, let's look at the following scenario:

You are using professional music production software like Cubase or Cakewalk etc. ... just the same as me. You really love this one package of sound samples, and I've heard your work. I really like it too, so I run out and buy it.

Now I get the software home and have spent 12 - 1/2 hours trying to get it to work. I know it can work, 'cause you've proven it. Eventually, I bury my ego and confess my problem to you over MSN.

And here comes Jet Screenshot to the rescue. You show me some intial settings, I show you what I have. We work together step by step until I finally get it working.... and all of this without using anything more than MSN and our browser.... instant communication.... easy ... back and forth without breaking our train of thought.

That's what I like about Jet Screenshot ... virtually instant communication. But beyond that, I find that Jet Screenshot not only works, but it works flawlessly. And to me, in this niche that is the critical matter.

One thing I can say that has not been mentioned is that right from the system tray you can refresh your memory as to the keyboard shortcuts. One doesn't have to be an Einstein to use it. Simple and straightforward.

Thus I am unreservedly giving Jet a total thumbs-up ! And I would like to add a hearty thanks to both GOTD and ArcticLine Software. Thanks guys.... I would never have know about this fine product otherwise.

OMG, Something even more worthless than a screensaver.

this program is very useful for people who due to age forget HOW to do things ( like me ) this does it in ONE step. are they any other freeware that has EXACTLY the same functionality commenting on freeware with different functionality is unfair to the developers although it can give useful information

Once again the purpose of the Software offered has been glossed over by some whom have not even tried it. I too use several screen capture programs and my main one is Ashampoo Snap 6.
I downloaded it, registered it, activated it and used it(Win 7 64). It is far more useful in sending a screenshot to someone in the "Now" than Snap 6 or others in which there are several steps involved. I have several clients that can benefit from this instant view of what I am discussing.
Please download it, follow the directions to register and activate it and try it, before you negatively comment on it.
Remember you are VOTING on the COMMENT!! not on the software!
Thanks GOTD and the developer, the program works very well for what it is designed to do, quickly and efficiently.

I've used Jet for a few years and while I like it, I do not recommend it. For the following reasons:

1. It deletes your online screenshots if no traffic
2. It does not offer for FREE the feature to FTP to own server

Point 2 alone justifies not downloading it to try, since we wanted it free forever, but Jet will not give you that for FREE.

LightShot is great! Capturing a screenshot and getting a link for sharing with only 3 mouse clics.

I love Jet Screenshot. :)
Got it when previously given here at GAOTD, and it has great functionality, IMO.
I personally don't use the upload feature, as i'd rather upload to my server instead of theirs, but as one can copy to clipboard or save to disk, it is fine for me. :)

Dear Roman,
First let me apologize up front if someone already addressed these 2 things or they are already in place.

As one person pointed out, he does remote tech support. It occurred to me that the amount of time people wanted the images available could vary from person to person. So it would be advantageous to be able to set a length of storage time in a profile, and/or be able to set the time as they store each image.

As to my question; I am hyper vigilant about security, so I never store anything on the net.
What I would like to know is can I assign the storage to a location on my LAN? I'm the Techie for my 'User' family and this would very helpful to me

Thanks,
Pic-Z

ashraf,

welcome back : )

you were missed.

pal

downloaded fine,
installed okay
WILL NOT OPEN

We are getting emails with information that user can't register.

Let me give you registration steps again:

1) Go to http://my.jetscreenshot.com/promo/jsh-12m-gaotd and create account.
2) Confirm your email. Code that looks like 96786a1316b7c2eba7b6a03e64f49ecd is not for activation of the software, it's for confirmation of emails.
3) When you are done, Go to http://www.jetScreenshot.com, download, install and run Jet Screenshot if you have not yet done so.
4) Right-click the Jet Screenshot icon in the system tray and choose Activate Paid Features item.
5) Enter email address you've used at step 1 into the email field and type in your password to your account on http://my.jetscreenshot.com into the password field.
6) Click Activate button.

To make sure you did everything correctly, right-click the Jet Screenshot icon in the system tray and choose About. This opens the About dialog that should show 'Giveawayoftheday'.

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Roman from JetScreenshot.com Team

To clarify what I said in #48 "Each new screenshot would then be readily accessible and shareable"
I do have one problem with screenshots many of which I make for use in tutorials.
I regularly use the wonderfully improved Windows 7 version of WordPad for drafting a tutorial. as it automatically (unlike Microsoft Word) parses any pasted in URL as a fully clickable hyperlink.It is handy to use Gadwin Printscreen's facility of saving a new screenshot to the clipboard to paste it directly into my new narrative, and if I have remembered to change the default saving destination in Gadwin P/S to an images folder in the same folder that I will be saving the draft it is then a simple matter when creating the actual web page to link to the image, and the resulting HTML file and the images folder content can then be uploaded to my website's tutorials folder easy peasy!!
The problem is that if I do not change the specified destination folder new screenshots will be saved in whatever destination folder is currently specified often causing me to hunt for them.
Using Dropbox as standard would therefore confer two advantages
1.I would always know where each screenshot is
2 The Dropbox sharing facility will give me an absolute URL for any purpose including displaying on my tutorial page
Zowie!!

Bilderman is a small, portable option for quick screenshots.
http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=39

Oh btw way if you are interested in capturing VIDEO, just go to Jing.com. They also have an upgrade called Snag It that will record video beyond the five minutes, but its kind of expensive for my wallet at $50.

I have never commented before but would like to share the program I use that does everything the offered one does, plus you dont pay for it or the storage of your files. I say files because mine also records up to 5 min of video and yes, can be shared easily. I use Jing and love it, it intuitive to use and you can size your screecapture to whatever you like. Jing also comes with many tutorial videos avail on the site and at youtube, if needed. Sorry I don't think I will be downloading todays offer, can't imagine paying for something when I have a frre program that does the same PLUS VIDEO. Thanks for the offer tho.

Whilst all this has provided me with a wealth of information on several other available pograms to be evaluated in due oourse, I suspect that i will remain faithful to my long term and well engrained favourite Gadwin Printscreen.
with one important change.L will be adding a screenshot folder to my existing dropbox folder and then add it to the favorites listing in Windows Explorer snd specify that dropbox folder as the default destination folder using Gadwin Printscreen's properties facility. Each new screenshot would then be readily accessible and shareableat least as long as dropbox is around

Hummmm, If a screen shot is taken from a web site and then send to a third party web site for storage and then you give that web site URL storage via e-mail to a friend(s) to look at that. I think something is not right here, first the screen shots are not high resolution second for every screen shot there is a new URL short cut generated and no moving screen shots allowed.

Is it not much simpler to give that person web site URL instead of doing the whole ritual as above and is it not simpler to send those photos via e-mail instead of screen shots of photos.

I'll pass on this one for the reasons stated above and that there is a time limit of one year.

Very cool program, since I killed my last computer with too many downloads and apps running I reduced my downloading to almost nothing. However this gem solves a problem with a business associate 1200 miles away.
Thanks to the developer, GOTD and all the positive remarks. I was close to skipping this.

As a screen capture, this appears to be a very nice program, so I have no argument. What I find confusing is the actual value of the "amazing ability for this program to automatically create a URL to send your friends, clients, etc… in order to SHOW THEM what you are working on! ..." as #17 P.Wallace points out.

If you're not too lazy to register and upload your "screenshots" manually, there are tons of free image hosting sites. I've never encountered one image hosting site that does not automatically create a link to your image. All you've got to do is copy this link and send it to who ever you please.

Now, if you need to upload stuff to your own website as #18 Barry says, it means you are serious about what you do. In that case you should find a host, who for about $60.00 or $70.00 a year, will give oodles and oodles of Megabites of storage, no file restrictions, and quite often they'll even register a domain name of your choice for free which becomes yours to keep.
Also, when you are seriously working on something, you'd never even think of using your working machine to "surf the net" or test software. In my opinion, that is. :-)

I'm not in the domain business, but I have my own website where I can upload anything I want, and I can describe every single thing in detail with all the frills and thrills, and required information, without the worry of space limitation or bandwidth allowance.

@#11 Jimsock: Try gyazo (http://gyazo.com/): "1. Launch the Gyazo app and drag your mouse to grab the screen. 2. The image is instantly uploaded and the URL is automatically copied to the clipboard. 3.
Paste and share the URL of the image!"

Every one talking about PRT SCRN and paint, like AUS_Doug, #33 and Tracey, #38:

Suppose you want to go from Boston to New york.

First story:
I have very good shoes and I can walk there. It will do, I'll get there in the end.
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Second story
Somebody gave me a Bugatti Veyron and Il like to use this new car
http://my.jetscreenshot.com/demo/20121212-b5fu-67kb
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Jetscreenshot is like the Bugatti compared with your story (the first story) that's why I want to use Jetscreenshot.
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@CJCotter, #35: "Will the world collapse in 30 seconds" No that will be 2012 dec. 21st according to the maya's.
Your computer has everything to do with making things easier or more automatic. Jetscreenshot does it's part and does it well.

Clearly a "you either hate it or love it" kind of software judging by the comments. Well I am in the second group, I love this software application. Already used the free version (then trough a site that was that was their site before it became jetscreenshot, i believe simply called howtotakescreenshot.com/) before they gave the home version away the first time. What disapoints me from todays giveaway that they don't give people that actually renewed their subscription after last giveaway subscription periode was over (around may this year) a few months free but just the simple message "Sorry, this promotion is available for new users only."

anyway, for those able to look past all the negativity here about this program, just know you can have an application that has very low resource usage while running in the background, that snaps your screen any size you want, that shares instantly over the web (possible to upload to ftp or save to disk as well), has a simple but effective edit option a nd in all it's simplicity is just plain useful

yes their are loads of freeware options in combination with imageshack or photobucket and those sites, but why not try this a year for free, after that you still can use it, you only need to use that imageshack or save to disk if you then want to store your file longer then 24 hours, but you all seem to be used and don't mind that anyways.

(unless they give us loyal customers those few months free) my subscription will be renewed in May since for me this is categorized "must have"

I frequently need to share screenshots with a variety of people (web designers, IT, programmers, coworkers, employees), so I thought I might have something useful to add to this discussion.

First, I don't want to be able to store images forever, most things change within hours or days. A free image storage site would work just fine if I needed to go that route. We're talking screenshots, not family vacation photos.

Second, if it's for business or you're a blogger, you probably already have your own server or website. Put them up on that and you can keep them forever if you want. You can also make sure they are safely deleted if security is an issue.

Third, (and I don't know if this is true for Windows 8) Microsoft has a really handy snipping tool that allows you to choose areas of the screen to snip so you don't have to do a bunch of editing before sending. If you really need to highlight an area any free image editor can do that, but that hasn't ever been necessary in my experience.

Fourth, I don't know how long other people take to do tasks, but I just drop the snip in an email or transfer the file through whatever chat I'm using (Window Live, Oovoo, Skype, in-house) and send it that way. It seems silly to have to upload it to another site and create a link, then share that.

I'm not going to give this a thumbs down because I'm not going to bother to try it, but it seems like this is a waste of time for almost all the people they say it would be "ideal" for.

#23 Raywood
>>I use Amor Screen Capture regularly. What I like about it is that it gives you the ability to capture a portion of the screen (or whole screen, or active window) and then immediately copy that image to the clipboard.
Jet Screenshot can do it as well.

>>I can then paste the image into Word, Excel, etc., or with ACD Pro can go right in a paste it into any folder as a jpg.
Jet Screenshot can do it as well.

>>It does NOT however allow for trap-n-transfer
But Jet Screenshot does... ;)

>>But …as mentioned in comment #19, I wouldn’t think to waste a minute of my time with this approach to things if I thought for an instant that the images I capture and send might not remain available to me or my recipients for as long as we wish. So tell me. Is it true that failure to renew my subscription in a year’s time would mean I lose access to all the links associated with my screenshots?

Let me please explain how Jet Screenshot works:
1) The idea of Jet Screenshot is fast sharing, not screen capturing. #25 is right, capturing is secondary. If you see something that worth to share with friend, low long this share is actual?
F.ex. you have a date and you use arrow to show your girlfriend place on map where you will wait for her. Do you need this data in 1 year?
2) Because of that, Jet Screenshot stores your screenshots AS LONG AS THEY ARE VISITED and viewed. I.e. if you have a screenshot that visited 10 times per day, it will be stored for ever no matter what type of the account (free or paid) you have. But if visits are gone, we will clean unneeded file. With different types of account we have different rules what we think is unneeded:
* Free – we will remove screenshot, if it doesn’t have visits for 30 days.
* Home – we will remove screenshot, if it doesn’t have visits for 6 months.
* Pro – we will remove screenshot, if it doesn’t have visits for 12 months.

So, if you publish screenshots and nobody needs them, it’s true – we will remove them. But we are trying to make our rules loyal.


>>And what assurance does any of us have that your enterprise won’t go bottom up and render all of our links dead, useless or lost?
Who can warrant you 100% stability now? Even Amazon Clouds were offline several times. So, all we can ensure: we will try do the best. Not sure this is what you expect to read, but it is true :)

#25
Thank you for the comment. Looks like you are one of our current users. People who worked with Jet Screenshot for some time and new ones speack in different ways. And this is one of the problem of Jet Screenshot: people understand why Jet Screenshot is cool only AFTER they use it. But not before download. :(
If anybody have idea how to solve this problem, please tell.

#28
Thank you for the idea. I've added it to out ToDo list. But for now I can't tell whn it will be implemented. We have a lot of more priority tweaks now.

#31, thank you for the comment.
This is example of the Jet Screenshot's problem: User is happy AFTER user.

#36, please post us your bug report. If there is a problem, we will fix it.

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Roman from JetScreenshot.com Team

Is it true that failure to renew my subscription in a year’s time would mean I lose access to all the links associated with my screenshots?

I don't get it either, nor do I understand the down votes on those posting using the PRT SCRN key and importing it into a program, like MS PAINT. Been using it for years and it has never failed me.

Crashed several times. Really can't get it to work right. Will try one more time and then give up.

To Giovanni. Please stay here. That other guy isn't even in the same league as you. You provide a wealth of information. It is a shame that other person came back. Also that he is given first posting.

You rule here. So don't think for a minute he will dethrone you.

Keep up the good work.

Ashampoo Snap 5 is also free for a limited time, as well as other products.

https://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/lpa/christmas?c=xmas12

This jet crashed upon installation. No departure, free meal or peanuts. Uninstalled.

Why is there a need for this? "...enabling you to share screenshot via the internet in seconds." WHY? Will the world collapse in 30 seconds if I don't get this screen capture out RIGHT NOW? The picture you are taking ALREADY EXISTS all over the internet, so what's the big hurry?

Only good for year might be able to make use of in the time. Mabbe they offer agian in another year so you could upgrade it and it still work. You donot know you like it til you tri it, it is free at that time!

Perhaps I am missing something, but what is wrong with: "Print Screen", open fav. image editor, "Paste", "Save", upload to "Imgur"?

Giovanni

Thank you for staying at GOTD. Your "free alternatives" are many to choose from. Ashraf's pros and cons are good. You two guys rock this site. Therefore don't leave us alone in front of our computer screen thinking whether "to download or not to download".

Your comments are great help for me esp. My net connection is very slow, it takes ages to download large programs (>50MB), so your comments help me out in such cases. I do not have to lose my net balance just to find the program is not useful to me after waiting hours downloading.

Welcome back to Ashraf.

look this ..
I got till 2022
@developer you need fix the registration.

I don't usually comment on a Giveaway offer until I have a clear and honest idea of the offer.

For this program I decided to speak up because I've seen so many thumbs down that since I use this program for several years in its free version I thought I should say something for the sake of setting something right.

First JetScreenShot offers a free plan with basic set of editing tools. This is what I've been using for years and it suits me fine! I love the options and whenever I install (or re-install as sometimes happen) a new operating system in one of my machines this is one of the tools I immediately install.

Now, please understand I'm not affiliated with the developers in any way, this is a testimony from a long time user point of view!

I invite all those who voted thumbs down to give it a try before voting.

Good luck!

- Snapping Tool or any other tool available > save screenshot to desktop or dropbox folder right click copy URL
- right mouse click > Share with > Homegroup > instant access for your friends etc
- right mouse click > Mail recipient > email the screenshot to who ever
- or send to dropbox or skydrive or ... and copy link and email

there is nothing Windows can't handle apart from capturing scrolling windows

So, what's the big deal with this software? Paying one year a fee what you can get with dropbox for free? Sharing stuff in Windows is easy and doesn't need a monthly fee to store content on free cloud services.

Actually i use Lightshot. Its free. Very easy to use. Search google for 'Lightshot'. Its simply awesome! So i don't need to download this $14 software. I respect the maker for this wonderful software but i cant use it because lightshot has stole my heart 2 years ago!... :)

@Roman, #7 from Jetscreenshot-team

When I choose "Go to my Files" right clicking on the tray-icon, "http://my.jetscreenshot.com/" opens in my brower.
http://my.jetscreenshot.com/14926/20121212-wbhk-4kb

But because all my login data are present allready using a valid license (thanks), it would be better to login automatically in stead of leaving it to me. This is easier and not less secure.

Could you make it like that in next release?

@froment, #19: After a year you can still be using your nice screenshots. Just download them from their server before the license expires and store them yourself. Thats free.

Alternatives are not sharing sites, or capturetools without the means to share.

I am out on this one! 1 year! Give me a break....

If this company was serious and I do thank them for coming here and answering questions, but I can do the same thing with paint!

I finally gave in and bought a laptop that has(still don't like it)Windows 7, and the paint program in that one is a bit better than XP, but I still like XP's OS! Guess it's hard to teach this old chick new tricks, lol