ScreenToaster is a french start-up whose offices are established in the heart of Paris, France. They are a small team of high-skilled web engineers developing state-of-the-art web 2.0 services for internet users. Their idea is to enable people to share their know-how in a very simple way, making screencasts.

ScreenToaster is the easiest way to rapidly create and share tutorials, demos, training and more. ScreenToaster is a free web-based screen recorder designed to capture your screen activity, audio and webcam images in real-time then publish and share your video in blogs and websites.

ScreenToaster works in all browsers and doesn't require any download so that you can use it anywhere, anytime. High-quality screencasts can be streamed on the Internet in a Flash player, on any Windows, Mac OS or Linux platform.

You find ScreenToaster here: http://www.screentoaster.com/

PrtScr

Sure, there are loads of free screen capture tools, but this is not another cheesy, spreadsheet-looking one. This one offers directness, ease of use, and does it with style.

You may ask, what's wrong with Microsoft's own Snipping Tool? It's great, but unfortunately restricted to the Windows Tablet PC Edition, and some versions of Vista. Also, Snipping Tool fails to capture overlay windows (those translucent windows mostly used by desktop gadgets).

Download PrtScr from here: http://www.fiastarta.com/PrtScr/Download.html

Features

Accessable through Ptr Scr, Ctrl+Prt Scr, or custom hotkey

Captures full screen, rectangle selection, freehand selection, or active window

Can capture mouse cursor

Supports multiple monitors

Allows annotation over capture, with smooth, natural mouse drawing

Saves capture straight to desktop or to any file, sends it as email, edits, prints or sends to clipboard

Exports as JPG, BMP, or PNG (transparent or opaque)

Can re-scale capture before exporting

Can pre-fill capture title & comments with window title & browser URL