Comments on: My Wobbly Google Reader Screencast

By: So Long Bloglines… at EdTechPost

So Long Bloglines… at EdTechPost — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:36:47 +0000

[...] most of the of the other cool kids, I’ve had a hard time kicking my bloglines habit for newer tools. A case of “if it [...]

By: Education/Technology » Blog Archive » iShowU: Mac OS X Screen Capture Tool

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:23:29 +0000

[...] Alan Levine recently talked about iShowU, the Mac OS screen recording application. iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from a microphone (built-in or external) as well as any audio from the mac itself. It can be configured in a number of ways and is a tremendous deal at only $20. [...]

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:44:13 +0000

Scott, what if you tag feeds with stars in Reader? you could use “*”, “**”, “***”, “****”, and “*****” to emulate ratings… I occasionally do this in del.icio.us to “rate” my bookmarks. Then, I wonder if you could make a view that showed all items from feeds tagged with each * rating?

Alan, you can turn off follow-mouse, and lock the recording region into place. It’s a checkbox on the settings panel for each preset.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:02:04 +0000

I tried the scaling, D’Arcy, it seemed to give me one of those framed areas that scooted around with my mouse, but I did the thing in a one take hurry. Will try again. And it as Command-SHift-S to start and Command-SHift-T to stop. There is also a option that hides the software when you start, so you dont have to edit it out of the movie.

I crunched it through ST pro to cut the file size in half, it knocked the soudn flat, but 20 Mb seemed fat

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:40:59 +0000

Hey, thanks for doing this! I know this probably seemed rudimentary, but personally I found it interesting. Looking at the way you are using Google Reader right now, it seems awfully similar to how I use Bloglines except around the read/unread posts feature. I am going to give Reader a second chance but I am still straining to see the advantages. Not so much with BlogBridge, the one D’Arcy demo’d – I can see how using the ratings system can make for a different experience. And I think using Reader with tags might create some differences too. Anyways, I think this screencast will become another small piece in showing new users how to effectively deal with the information tsunami in front of them. Cheers, Scott

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:35:31 +0000

Heya, Alan. good screencast! thanks for sharing it.

iShowU can actually scale as it records. The one I did, I left my display at natural resolution (1280×1024) and set iShowU to record the whole thing, but to scale it by 50% when saving the QuickTime file. Makes it easier to manage without losing real estate, and it’s still readable enough.

There’s also a key combo for starting, pausing, resuming and stopping recording. I forget what it is off the top of my head, but IIRC, they’re exposed in the menu that’s available when your display is set to wider than 800px :-)

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:25:04 +0000

Nice job! It takes me an embarassing along time to do a screencast – it isn’t necessarily plug and play. I’ve had to resort to hollywood metaphors – write a script, do a storyboard, set up the scene, rehearse the lines, shoot it, edit it, produce it ..

My polished ones are here:
http://bethkanter.wordpress.com/screencast-program-notes/

My quick and dirty collection here:
http://kanter.blip.tv/file/89075/
http://kanter.blip.tv/file/97673/