Back on the subject of genuinely useful software you can get for free free free, without committing criminal acts, comes Wink. Wink is a not-so-greatly-named package for recording live screenshots into a mini Flash-movie. It goes on to let you add buttons, virtual Post-It notes and so on to your animated screengrabs in order that you can produce software tutorials, presentations and so on.

Once you're done, one click of a button later you have a fully functioning Flash reproduction of your screen video, and it even writes out a webpage that lets your audience see it clearly via the web.

OK, it obviously doesn't have the flexibility of mega-expensive professional Flash packages, but it is simple to use and good at what it does. Available for PC or some variants of Linux at a site near you.