ResolverSystems have just published a new screencast made by Jonathan Hartley (one of their engineers) showing how BioPython can be used from within one of their spreadsheets.  I’m going to give a brief critique here with two suggestions for improvements.  Here’s Jonathan’s screencast: The Good: The video is clear and the length is 3 minutes […]

Silvio Grosso was good enough to send me details of his workflow using Windows and Linux screencasting software.  I’ve tidied it up a bit and reprinted it here.  I discuss more workflow approaches in the Handbook.  Thanks Silvio! For my colleagues, I record my video tutorials with CamStudio 2.5 beta. This software has plenty of […]

Recently I used BBSoftware’s FlashBack Pro 2.6.6 to record two series of tutorial videos for ShowMeDo on OpenOffice Base and Impress (see some details on the series at ProCasts). You can see one of the resulting videos at the end of this article. Here I’ll share some of the highs and lows of using FlashBack.  […]

The first screencast tutorial is on-line, it shows you how to make your first screencast, using the free Jing, in the next 30 minutes.  This screencast is a part of Chapter 4 in The Screencasting Handbook.  Since Chapter 4 is now complete I’ll be releasing a new copy of the book to my mailing list […]

Recently I was asked if it is possible to screencast when you can’t install a screencasting tool and when you don’t have Internet access.  You know what?  You can! If you use the free CamStudio on Windows then you can get the Portable CamStudio download – you just pop it onto a USB stick and […]

Jay of GibraltarSoftware posted a link to the Business of Software forum asking for feedback on his new Tour screencast.  I figured that a critique here would be useful to other Handbook readers rather than a reply over a BoS.  Over on ProCasts I have critiqued five other screencasts, I’ll be doing those here now […]