For close to two years now, I have been using SnagIt for all my screen capturing needs. Despite several free alternatives, I felt that this software did a better job of giving me the tools that I needed, so I dropped roughly $40.00 on this software and haven’t looked back.

Today I noticed that TechSmith has decided to give away free retail editions of SnagIt 7.2.5 with no strings attached, which is good news for people that have not yet experienced this software. For your reference, the most recent version is 8.2.

In addition to traditional screen capture, this software allows the user to capture scrolling long web pages, extract text from windows, annotate images and make fancy borders and stuff on your images.

SnagIt

In order to get the software, follow these two steps:

1) Download the demo version of SnagIt TechSmith FTP servers below:

2) Visit the TechSmith website and request a SnagIt 7 Software key – it should arrive in your Inbox pretty soon. Just key in the registration details and your trial copy of SnagIt will convert into a full retail version.

This free version is a complimentary copy of SnagIt (Version 7.2.5).  You can upgrade the software to the above mentioned current version 8.2 at half of the standard price if you’d like the updates from version 8.0+.

[via Digital Inspiration]