LibCasting

I wish I noticed this earlier today, but for another couple of hours, you can get DemoCreator free at Giveaway of the Day (GOTD). Scroll down to the “Download Democreator now” link and be sure to install it and activate it before the deadline to get it for free. It apparently retails for $129.95, although [...]

So after posting about Demofuse yesterday, I thought I’d post a screencast of what it is like to use. My Quick View of Demofuse (3.3 MB, 3:50) does not show all the features and is only based on my rather limited experience with Demofuse. Oh, and if anyone is interested in trying Demofuse, you need [...]

Well this is not exactly screencasting, but Demofuse is a fascinating technology anyway. You can use it to create a special link that gives a tour of a Web page. I’ve only played around with it a bit, but it seems to be limited to a one page tour at a time, and you have [...]

For the more technically minded Web designers, A List Apart has an article, Flash Embedding Cage Match, that looks at various methods in which Flash can be embedded on a Web page. A List Apart always aims for standards-compliance, and sometimes their approaches will not work in all browsers, but it might be useful to [...]

I just came across this nice guide to screencasting for Linux, if you don’t mind the “Capure” typo: Screencast Guide: Capure Your Linux Desktop on Video!. For any Linux users out there, this looks like it provides a variety of choices with different software from the usual Windows collection of screencasting programs. I have not [...]

Techsmith has updated Camtasia Studio to version 4. While I have yet to download the new version to try it, there are some nice sounding features like more output formats, including m4v for podcasts, improved audio editing capabilities, production previews, open ended survey questions, extending end frames to fit added audio, closed captioning, and more. [...]

Paul points out that Adobe is now shipping Captivate 2 and that Techsmith will have version 4 of Camtasia Studio out soon (next week if they stay on schedule). I’m hoping to see that both find the balance between being even easier to use and adding more features and capabilities.