Author: Paul R. Pival
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Screencasting Review: On the subject of Camtasia for Mac and Screenflow
While I have copies of Camtasia:Mac and iShowU HD and a demo copy of Screenflow, I haven’t made the time to do a comparison of them. John Basile at Scrast.net has taken a fairly comprehensive look at Camtasia:Mac and Screenflow though. No clear winner is the ultimate conclusion (except maybe for the end-user 🙂
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Additional observations about unified discovery services
As Grand Valley State U works towards launching Summon, Laura at Llyfrgellydd posts some additional observations about unified discovery services. I think all her points are valid; well worth the 2-3 minutes it’ll take you to read.
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Tune In September 2: The Google Book Scanning Project–Issues and Updates
Educause Live presents:Topic: The Google Book Scanning Project—Issues and UpdatesDate: September 2, 2009Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT). International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to calculate the start time in your time zone.Duration: 1 hour For about five years, Google has been scanning…
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News about Screencasting and Screen Capture on the Mac
Seems to be a pretty newsy day! Techsmith has released Camtasia:mac (screencasting) AND announced that they’re developing a version of Snagit for the Mac (screen capture). Not to be left out, Telestream has announced (but not yet released) version 2 of their excellent screencasting program, Screenflow. screencasting, osx
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Comparing Online Screen Recorders
Another week, another online screen recording program; this time it's Screenr. Amit at Digital Inspiration has a post comparing this newcomer to Screen Toaster, Screen Jelly and Screencast-o-matic. While he uses a narrative style, I'd prefer a chart, so I put one together: Tool Duration Dimensions Webcam/Mic Video Format Quality YouTube HD Mobile? Screenr 5…
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Use embedr for video/screencast playlists
A couple of months ago my colleague Carmen pointed me to Embedr, “a free service that lets anyone create a custom playlist of videos from the top video sites on the web.” Finally had a chance to take a look at it and quite like it. Basically you can feed it the URLs of videos…
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Webinar: Defining Web-Scale Discovery: The Promise of a Unified Search Index for Libraries
Received the following email: Date: August 18, 2009 • Time: 9:00-10:00 AM PDT (12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT) Please Join Us for Part 3 of Library Journal’s “Returning the Researcher to the Library” Webcast Series “Why can’t I search the library the way Google searches the Web?” Librarians have been fielding that question for more…
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iPhone apps for textbooks and another library catalogue
Yesterday brought two interesting iPhone apps to my attention. The first is iUSask, the University of Saskatchewan iPhone application, which includes a category for searching the OPAC. This is touted as "the first iPhone application of its kind in Canada for University Students." I played with is a bit yesterday and unfortunately wasn't very impressed. …
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Camtasia coming to the Mac on Aug 25th!
They've finally got a date! Techsmith has announced that they're shipping Camtasia for the Mac on August 25th. "Camtasia for Mac will have a special introductory special price of $99, through the end of 2009. After that, the MSRP will be $149." That's an interesting price point – way cheaper than Camtasia Studio for Windows,…