Category: Random Tech Tips
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A Day Made of Glass
Apparently this series of videos has been around for quite some time (the first released on YouTube in Feb 2011), but I hadn't seen them before a colleague forwarded a link yesterday. Some really interesting glimpses into the future of displays as envisioned by Corning Glass. The second and third videos simply expand upon the…
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Lifehacker’s best screencasting and screen capture apps
Over the past several weeks, Lifehacker has listed what they believe to be the best screencasting and screen capture tools for both Windows and Mac. In each post they cover the tool's Features, Where it excels, Where it falls short, and The Competition. Here they are: Best Screen capture tool for Windows (I had never…
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ScreenConnect – another remote-assistance tool
A year ago I blogged about an article I had read that looked at different tools that could be used to either create screencasts, or allow screen sharing, in support of virtual reference transactions. Six months ago a representative from ScreenConnect sent me an email suggesting that tool would be a good addition to the…
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Making Safari more like Firefox with Glims (OSX)
Ahhhhh, that's so much better. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but Firefox, my old standby, has slowly become, well, slow. It's no longer my default browser, but it's always had a couple of features I've missed. The biggest one was Firefox's ability to search through the text of a page w/o having to…
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How to add stamps to Snagit for Mac
Techsmith, makers of Camtasia Studio and SnagIt, recently started using GetSatisfaction to interact with their customers. I thought I’d give it a try to see if I got a response to a question I had posed on Twitter (and gotten no response)- is it possible to add stamps to SnagIt for the Mac? Officially, the…
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Google knows what time it is where you are – Random Tech Tip Tuesday
This is likely very old news, but it's new to me so I thought I'd share. I just noticed that within Gmail, Google will tell you what time it currently is where the sender of an email is: A little thing, but pretty cool and potentially very useful! OK, I did my homework – Google…
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Readability brings one of Safari’s best features to Firefox
I've been using the Readability Firefox extension since shortly after the feature was baked in to Safari 5 a couple of months ago. Just love it, and it's pretty much taken away my need for previously-mentioned tool Aardvark. Check it out:
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David Lee King on Microphones
David’s got a couple of posts that are relevant for screencasters: 5 Mic Tips for Presenters and Three Nice Microphones. I use the Samson myself.
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Oooh, shiny! Google background images
If you use the Google.com (not a country-specific) page to search, you can now customize a background image if you're logged in. As you hover over the page you'll see a new link in the lower left, which will allow you pick from some standard pix, or upload one of your own: I think I'm…