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CamStudio: An Easy, Lightweight App for Recording Screencasts

March 23rd, 2009 (4:00pm) Samuel Dean 11 Comments

Last year, in a post called “6 Free Apps and Utilities for Working with Video,” I discussed how many more web workers are dealing with video on a daily basis. Video content is good for everything from promotional materials to embedding on sites and blogs. Screencasts, for which you can use easy tools to record the goings-on on your screen, then share the results with others as streaming video files, are also on the rise. One of my favorite, quick-in, quick-out Windows applications for this purpose is CamStudio.


Here’s a look at how easy it is to get started using it.

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WWD Screencast: Gmail Labs Multiple Inboxes

February 9th, 2009 (10:58am) Simon Mackie 10 Comments

Last week, Google added a new Labs feature to Gmail, Multiple Inboxes. I put together a quick screencast introduction to show you how it works:

Have you tried Multiple Inboxes? What do you think?

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