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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?