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Our Ztail screencast featured on TechCrunch

Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in General, Screencast Client | No Comments »

Let me say - waking up to discover that our screencast for newly-relaunched US ecommerce site Ztail is featured in their TechCrunch coverage is really rather cool. We deliberately added the ... Read more..

Awarded Screencast of the Week by TechSmith!

Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in General, Screencast Award | 1 Comment »

I'm very proud to say that we've been given the Screencast of the Week (twitter) award by TechSmith, makers of the excellent CamTasia (our main screencasting tool).  The award is ... Read more..

Interview with ScreenToaster’s Rudy Viard

Saturday, April 11th, 2009 Posted in MicroISV, Screencast Interview | 1 Comment »

Rudy Viard of the web-based screencasting tool ScreenToaster (@screentoaster) kindly answered my questions about why they're building a free on-line screencasting service and how the company started.  This interview is ... Read more..

Our Adblock Plus video is 15th most-viewed in YouTube (Sci/Tech category)

Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in General, Screencast Client | 1 Comment »

We're rather chuffed to say that our screencast that explains the open-source Adblock Plus plug-in (Washington Post) is the 15th most popular video in YouTube's Sci/Tech category this month.  We ... Read more..

Exporting the screencast – flv, mp4, ogg, wmv, mov, swf (screencast tutorial)

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 Posted in MicroISV, Screencast Tutorial | 3 Comments »

Previously we've looked at choosing your screencasting software, editing the screencast and adding music, now let's look at exporting the finished video.  Later we'll consider embedding the screencast in your ... Read more..

Adding music to your screencast (screencast tutorial)

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 Posted in MicroISV, Screencast Tutorial | 5 Comments »

We've already looked at choosing your screencasting software and editing the screencast, now let's look at adding music.  Later we'll look at exporting the finished video, embedding the screencast in ... Read more..

Interview Reprint: “Screencasting: an Expert Reveals the Dark Art” from JoltMagazine.com

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 Posted in Screencast Interview | 1 Comment »

Sadly JoltMagazine.com seems to have fallen off of the internet.  Back in September 2008 they interviewed me, I've reprinted it below as the background should be useful to new screencasters: I've ... Read more..

Startup Success Screencasting Podcast

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 Posted in Screencast Interview | 2 Comments »

Bob and Pat of Startup Success were kind enough to interview me last week on the subject of how and why you should make screencasts to demo your software product.  ... Read more..