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I have had a lot of success with Donation Coder's "Screenshot Captor" (http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor/index.html)

It's donationware. Free to use, but a donation would be appreciated. When you start the program, a popup reminds you of this. You can get rid of the popup by donating to get a license.

All that aside though, the options available for Screenshot Captor are amazing:
* Built-in editor with callouts, annotations, text, and more
* Capture the whole screen, the workspace, the active window, a selected region, a scrolling region, and probably a couple other ways I forgot
* Quick naming template for multiple shots that are related. Set the name to start with "Program-A", and it will appended a timestamp to the end for each shot, so you get files like "Program-A-20090417-1114.png" and "Program-A-2009-0417-1115.png" and so on
* Blur the region outside the selected area, good for masking the unimportant/private stuff
* Sits quietly in your system tray after launch
* And a lot more

Wink is good too, but it's focus is more on developing tutorials or screencasts, than simple screenshots, which was the target of the original poster's review. One issue I've had with Wink is trying to record audio while capturing the screen. Every mouse click or screen change caused a new audio clip, which resulted in lots of split-second audio files, and just a big mess. It's likely just a config issue, but I didn't have time to play with it more.

Sometimes it's just better to record the audio after the fact, regardless of the program, that way you get exactly what's needed, and it's relevant to what's on the screen.

DionV