Archive for April, 2009

Screencast Tutorial Part 8 – Record Professional Audio

Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in MicroISV, Screencast Tutorial | 15 Comments »

So far we've covered scripting, visuals and recording in this screencast tutorial.  What about the audio?  The quality of your audio really matters.  If you get your audio wrong, the ... Read more..

Screencasts boost conversions, lower your bounce-rate, increase sales and lower your support burden

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in General | 1 Comment »

Did you know that you can boost your conversions (doubling them!), reduce the number of users who bounce from your homepage (by at least 7%), increase sales and lower your ... Read more..

Screencast Tutorial Part 7 – Getting More Publicity

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in MicroISV, Screencast Tutorial | 3 Comments »

Previously in this screencast tutorial series we looked at embedding your screencast in your site, here we'll discuss how you can get more publicity for your screencast. Having produced a screencast ... Read more..

Editing Audio from Camasia using Audacity (5 minute Screencast Tutorial)

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Screencast Tutorial | 7 Comments »

Whilst speaking with Daniel Foster at TechSmith I decided to create a short video that shows you how to use the free Audacity audio-editor to gain more control over your ... Read more..

Screencast Tutorial Part 6 – Embedding your screencast in your site

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in MicroISV, Screencast Tutorial | 4 Comments »

Having created and exported your screencast now you'll want to host it somewhere so you can show it to your visitors.  The two main options are to host it externally ... Read more..

IE6update.com In Action

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Screencast Client | 5 Comments »

IE6Update.com provides a tiny bit of Javascript that gently informs an Internet Explorer 6-using website visitor that their web-browser is out of date and needs updating. I didn't have a working ... Read more..

“UK’s Guide to Skills and Learning” eBook mentions Screencasts

Saturday, April 18th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »

The UK's Guide to Skills and Learning has published a long eBook.  On page 164 (no permalinks - see criticism below - you have to type 164 in the little ... Read more..

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 | 2 Comments »

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 | 4 Comments »

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..