How to, capture animated screen into gif file

how to capture animated screen into gif file? its easy using software called LICEcapLICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below). 

LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance. 

In addition to .GIF, LICEcap supports its own native lossless .LCF file format, which allows for higher compression ratios than .GIF, higher quality (more than 256 colors per frame), and more accurate timestamping. If you record to .LCF, you can later convert to .GIF (using the included command line utility), or play back the .LCF files directly within REAPER

this software to capture animated screen into gif file available for Windows and OSX. LICEcap is GPL free software, each download package includes the source. 

Features and options:
  • Record directly to .GIF or .LCF.
  • Move the screen capture frame while recording.
  • Pause and restart recording, with optional inserted text messages.
  • Global hotkey (shift+space) to toggle pausing while recording
  • Adjustable maximum recording framerate, to allow throttling CPU usage.
  • Basic title frame, with or without text.
  • Record mouse button presses.
  • Display elapsed time in the recording.
Requirements:
  • For Windows: Windows XP/Vista/7 (might work with reduced functionality on other versions)
  • For OSX: OS 10.4+ (10.6+ for full feature support), PPC or Intel (note: OS X support is still preliminary, some features are not supported)
  • A reasonably fast CPU
  • A healthy amount of RAM (1GB+, especially when encoding to LCF)
go directly to official LICEcap website : http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
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