Snapz Pro

OK, so I woke up today, and I heard the disk churning a lot, and so I turned on my computer -- a glance at the memory monitor showed that over half of my memory was active or wired, and that the rest of it was inactive, and not free (I have 896 MB of RAM, so that's a HUGE amount of active+wired memory). So I checked in top to see what might be using all that memory -- Norton,...

I would recommend Snapz Pro X/9.0. It's just a simple way to record microphone tracks, but it's in no way editing software... it just records the microphone track to an audio file. (Note that I think you'll have to get the $39 version that includes movies). The plus is that it's relatively cheap (dunno how much the other ones are) and it also is a big improvement over Mac OS...

Snapz Pro ROCKS! ...

If you want more advanced features take a look at the free demo of Ambrosia Software's Snapz Pro X 1.0. Search for it at versiontracker.com. ...

Andrew Welch says over on Macslash, "Snapz Pro 2 doesn't work under OS X because there's no API for intercept 'hot keys' globally. ...

I have been using a program called SnapZ to capture movie clips on my computer monitor. ...