I've been using Jing a lot lately. Very powerful little app that lets you capture the whole screen, specific applications only, or custom defined regions of your screen. Take a single still image, or record a video with recorded audio, share it to your blog, flickr etc.
It's becoming one of my favorite tools for documenting and writing web how-tos.
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