Monthly Archives: October 2007

Screencast Double-Bill: Tubetorial Latest

I have a screencast double-bill for you today, over at Tubetorial.

Parts five and six of our 7 Must Have Plugins for Wordpress series cover a smart, easy to use video aggregation script and a very effective way to change your permalink structure without losing all of your traffic.

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New Screencasting Tool For OSX: Screencast

We mac screencasters are relatively limited in our options when it comes to screen recording applications. The only two worth the time of day, in my humble opinion, are iShowU and Snapz Pro. I ditched Snapz a good while back thanks to the instant rendering and extensive options available in iShowU, which I now use [...]

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The Old Way Of Learning Doesn’t Cut It Any More

If the old way of learning ever had any value, it’s certainly starting to show it’s limitations now. In the following video (by the same guy who brought you the cool Web 2.0 video, Michael Wesch) we get a very compelling view of the way that students learn today, and also the myriad ways [...]

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Professional Screencaster Take Note: Camtasia Studio 5 In-Depth Review

If you are or aspire to be a professional screencaster, putting together killer screen recordingsĀ  that look great on your website - or those of your clients - you are definitely going to want to check out Camtasia Studio 5, from Techsmith.

And if for some reason you need further encouragement to shell out $299 for [...]

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Screencasting With Jing Gets Even Easier

The Jing Project, TechSmith’s free-to-download, cross platform screen capture and screencasting tool, has just received some welcome upgrades that make it even easier for anyone to get started in the world of screen recording. I reviewed Jing when it first reared its head, over at Master New Media back in July, and since then the [...]

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Jaiku Messaging From Your Non-Symbian/Java Phone (Quick & Dirty Hack)

Okay, so Jaiku is flavour of the month again thanks to the Google acquisition, and you know you have to start using it, however hard you might resist. But unless you have a symbian or Java phone, you’re basically screwed. Sure you can use SMS, if that’s your bag. Unless you live somewhere like Japan [...]

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Professional Screencasting Gets A Hand With Camtasia Studio 5

Professional screencasting is, at the moment, a relatively small field, and you can probably count the number of people making a living from screencasts on one hand. Or a couple, maybe. But out of all of the tools available to the would be screencaster, Camtasia Studio makes for an excellent entry-point, and for many people [...]

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Video Blogging For Wordpress Screencast Tutorial

Wordpress has quite a few video blogging solutions if you are willing to dig them up, but Revver’s recent foray into WP plugins covers pretty much everything you might need to get started. The latest installment of the Tubetorial 7 Must Have Killer Plugins For Wordpress series covers getting this installed and what it can [...]

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Boing Boing TV - Robotic In The Least Cool Way Possible

I was probably as excited as anybody at the thought of Boing Boing TV launching, as a huge fan of the blog. But in spite of the mild and in some places sycophantic praise being bandied around, I have to say that the first episode royally sucked.

Why?
For me, Rocketboom has long been the Boing Boing [...]

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Slash Your Hosting Bills: A Tubetorial Quick Fix

We’ve just put up the first in a new, soon to be ongoing, Tube’ series of quick fixes. This first offering covers how you can save yourself some hosting dough by making use of the Add On Domains feature packed in a lot of the more popular hosting packages.
As always, you can check it out [...]

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