I surf the web, my feed reader, twitter and a lot of the other information sources. Often I find I want to use a highlighter or otherwise annotate my reading material just as I would of done back in college (mabye a little less liberally with the highlighting). Jing is great for this and I’m [...]
It’s amazing how much the world of software development is changing. What was once a clandestine affair now extends to early public alphas / betas. For those not quite so inclusive, a Flickr stream of UI screenshots lets the masses get involved.
Why screenshots of the UI? Like it or not, everyone considers themselves a UI [...]
ReadWriteWeb had a provocatively titled post, Real People Don’t Have Time for Social Media, yesterday which resonated strongly with me. I’ve long felt that the Web, and software in general, has only recently (read last couple of years ) started to be accessible to the masses, but the truth of the matter is that the [...]
I’ve borrowed the title of this post from the Wikinomics site which describes how new communication technologies are reshaping the way the world does business by allowing the distributed voices of the rank and file to collaborate online.
Over the last decade some of the enormous untapped potential of the web has been realized as tools [...]
Jing is absolutely brilliant when it comes to recording and sharing media hosted on Screencast.com, but its ftp output enables some incredibly powerful, customized experiences. Unfortunately, ftp support is extremely rough around the edges making it not all that accessible for the layman. This post aims to change all that by providing a complete example [...]
Jing is absolutely my favorite piece of software made by TechSmith. It’s a quick and simple recipe for broadcasting images and video of your mac or pc that I believe has the potential to redefine how we think of screen capture / recording. It also has the opportunity to have a profound impact on how [...]
If you are embedding Jing video content on your website sometimes its preferable to have the video autostart instead of showing the reflecting click to play thumbnail. If that’s the case, you just need to pass in a parameter via flashvars or the url query string. Here’s a Jing video sans audio which shows you [...]
If you’re looking to embed Jing content hosted on Screencast.com on your own site here’s a snapshot of how you would do with SWFObject:
Right now there’s no “nice” way to grab a uri to the swf file you’d like to embed, so you will need to “View Source” in your browser, do a search for [...]
If you’ve tried the Jing Rich Recording Client on OS X and the novelty of the Sun UI glob has worn thin it’s super simple to set up a shortcut key and turn the UI off entirely (a Jing menubar icon with three items will appear on the right hand side of the menu bar [...]
Every once in a while you get to work on a project with the potential to be a game changer in the industry; something that can change people’s lives; a revolutionary technology that may fundamentally change the way we communicate with each other. I’m proud to announce that I was able to contribute in a [...]