screen capture software/animated gifs

[Richmond]

Here are some cheapies you might like to play about with:

http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html?ref=cj

http://www.advancity.net/eng/products/capturefox.html

Personally, as I usually use Linux, and, currently when I use Mac I use 
it within VMware on Linux, I use RecoredMyDesktop:

http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php

Richmond.