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If you haven’t heard of the JingProject, head over to the site right now. I’ve been using Jing for several months (since the initial beta) and I use it all the time.
Jing is a free product by TechSmith, the makers of the premier screen capture product Camtasia Studio and screenshot app SnagIt.
Here at my day job I use it to make little How-To videos or document a process. It’s so much easier for me to just record the steps with Jing and send a link to the video to an end user, colleague or friend than to write out the steps in an email precisely enough for them to follow. With Jing’s instant publishing integration it takes no time to upload the video to the web and send the link or save it locally as documentation.
Jing does have a 5 minute limit so therefore is only good for quick, informal screen captures. If you’re wanting to make a longer or more polished video stick with Camtasia.
Here’s a quick lesson on how Jing works and the ideas that spawned it. Take a look.
Tonight I flipped away from the Olympics during the trampolene competition and caught Lenovo’s new ‘Cast Away’ commercial featuring their new IdeaPad Y Series of notebooks. This not so original commercial was however quite eye catching.
Lenovo is advertising their Veriface technology which is basically a facial recognition program that uses their built in webcam to automatically recognize the face of an enrolled user and log him/her on to the computer. Pretty slick.
According to Notebooks.com, Veriface is quite secure and will only enroll, in the flesh, human faces and can’t be fooled by glossy photographs. Veriface isn’t exactly new technology as IBM was bundling it with webcams years ago. As cool as it is, I’m not sure it’ll actually sell any laptops but I can guarantee that anyone who puchases a Lenovo with Veriface will definitely use it.
Here’s a hilarious video produced by CrunchGear. If you’ve used Twitter for more than 3 days chances are you’ve seen the “Fail Whale”… Twitter’s effective blue screen of death. If Twitter users jump ship to one of it’s competitors, horrid server response will be the reason. (slight subtitle language warning)
With this simple “hack” anyone can go from zero to 500, 5000, 50,000 subscribers in a single day! Well, at least that’s what your Feedburner badge will say. It’s quite obvious that you would be able to subscribe to your own feed and inflate your numbers but who’d have thought it could be this easy?
I may have a couple thousand subscribers by tomorrow .
If you saw my SlideRocket Review post the other day you know that my first impressions were pretty good. I neglected to mention some of the more powerful features such as PowerPoint import and being ablet to pull in live data from Google Docs & Spreadsheets not to mention the offline client that is coming soon!
Here are some of those processes demo’d by SlideRocket.
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