Back on December 2 of last year I wrote about ScreenToaster.com. If you don’t remember the service, you can get more information at ScreenToaster.com or in my previous post about them. Basically they are a website which does screen captures in video without the need to install another program. (Assuming you’re running a modern browser on a somewhat recent system [ScreenToaster actually uses Java])

I got an interesting email yesterday about some new features:

• Upload your screen captures to Youtube… in HD!
• Download your screen captures as .mov files.
• A new API (this seems the most exciting to me, personally)

They’ve also added much more capability (to quote from the email):

>What changed since February :

• New categories and subcategories
• Four levels of privacy
• Direct upload to Google Video for featured videos
• Download in .swf file formats
• Record from external VNC servers
• Accelerated or slow-motion playback / Pauses during recording
• Spread on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Digg
• Bookmark it on Delicious, Stumble Upon, Yahoo Buzz and Google Bookmark
• Send your video by mail
• Suggested videos on the video pages
• Branded profiles
• Search filters: “most commented”, by “language”…
• Custom RSS feeds

This is, in a single word, amazing! ScreenToaster is already one of my favorite and essential utilities, but now it’s many time more interesting.

Back in my earlier review I complained about the lack of audio recording, that’s been added, the frame-rate seems to have improved, and now the videos aren’t ’stuck’ in ScreenToaster with these new export functions (to Youtube, download as .swf and .mov files. I can’t wait to use all of this!

One last comment: did I mention this is free?