Category: Tutorials
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Lifehacker’s Five Best Screencasting or Screen Recording Tools
No surprises in here really, as Lifehacker rounds up the five best screencasting tools as submitted by its readers. My fav, Camtasia Studio, comes out on top all around, offering both a Windows and Mac version. There seem to be a lot of folks who like the free CamStudio though, if the after-poll is to…
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Recording a screencast of your iPad2 or other tablet device
Kelly Rush of Techsmith has just posted a video showing how you can record a screencast of your iPad2 or other tablet device. To do it you have to capture the video out from the tablet; you can't do the recording on the tablet, which would be ideal, IMHO. Kelly's solution consists of the following…
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Screencasting on the iPad (almost)
Just ran across a link to an in-development iPad app called ShowMe, which acts as a whiteboard, recording whatever happens within the app, including audio, and then exports that to a website. I would SO love to have an app like this that can record whatever is happening on the iPad rather than just itself,…
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Edupunk goes mobile: Mobile library sites with zero budget
Tiffini has a great post on her blog about the importance of a mobile website for libraries, along with a couple of excellent suggestions for how YOU can do this for your library with little to no cost at all: Edupunk goes mobile: Mobile library sites with zero budget. In a nutshell, she suggests using LibGuides…
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Some great screencasting thoughts and examples
I've had a few posts floating around waiting for me to blog about them. Embedding tutorials into physical objects – Jason Fleming talks about an incident with a photocopier that prompted him to create tutorials for print, and use a QR code to guide end users of physical objects to relevant online tutorials on how…
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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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Livening virtual reference with screencasting and screen sharing
Just finished reading this article: Heidi M. Steiner, (2010) "Livening virtual reference with screencasting and screen sharing", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 27 Iss: 4/5, pp. 9-11. DOI 10.1108/07419051011083172 Heidi takes a look at Jing, Screencast-o-matic, Screencastle, and Screenjelly for screencasting, and Dimdim, Yuuguu and ShowMyPC as screen sharing tools. Missing from her list is a…
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Recent Updates from Techsmith Camtasia
A recent newsletter from Techsmith alerted me to a handful of updates to their screencasting product line – Camtasia Studio 7.1 for Windows is out, and while I haven't tried it, it promises "Now you can create searchable videos (even the audio!), and automatically generate 508-compliant captions. Plus, you can import caption files in foreign…