I have been using and reviewing several screen recording applications in the past years including Camtasia Studio and Camstudio but I never came upon a software that was easier to use. Tip Cam is a free screen recording software that records the full desktop or parts of it and saves the output in flash video format which is the most common video format on the Internet these days.
It comes with a few settings, quality settings for instance, but those are really only a few when compared to the screen recording applications mentioned above. You basically pick the size of the recording area from several available ones. They are divided into so called Zoom Levels and those that resize the desktop and the default one which records the complete desktop.
We all know that a larger area will increase the size of the video tremendously. The Zoom Levels that are available are 640×480, 800×600 and 1024×768. They appear as a green box that can be moved across the screen before starting the recording.