- Posted by justin on February 12, 2007
I was watching an episode of DNR TV (http://www.dnrtv.com) last week and it got me thinking about how I could do something very similar at work for the technical presentation that we sometimes give. I know that quite a number of times, I have found out after the fact about a presentation another group has given on a topic that I am interested in and wished that they had recorded the session.
The way that DNR TV records what is going on, on the desktop of the person being interviewed is using Camtasia (http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp). I look at using Camtasia but the cost is a problem since we would need multiple licenses for the product and without having tried to record presentations before, it is hard to justify putting out money.
So what am I to do? Well, I just happened to be reading some blog this weekend and ran across a product called Cam Studio (http://www.camstudio.org) that is open srouce and free for commercial use. So I quickly download the program to give it a try. Within 5 minutes I had it installed and had created my first video with it. The program is incredible simple to use. It allows you to either record the full screen or a given region. The only thing that I did notice is that there is no option to record at a lower resolution than the monitor is currently running. I am sure that I could fixed this during post-processing. This product also creates flash movies in addition to the avi's and will convert the avi output to a swf movie.
- Posted by justin on August 17, 2006
I ran across this blog post a couple of weeks ago and thought it was quite funny that someone actually took the time to figure out how to open a beer bottle with a piece of paper. http://www.lockergnome.com/diy/how-to-open-a-beer-bottle-with-a-piece-of-paper/ (external).
- Posted by justin on March 17, 2006
Ran across this cool bit of code. I could have used this for some of the projects that I have where paging of data is not an option.
http://www.imaputz.com/cssStuff/bigFourVersion.html
- Posted by justin on June 27, 2005
The TechEd Grok Talks are finally posted
http://www.groktalk.net .
- Posted by justin on September 30, 2004
Got this link from mr. bolton.
If you just can't wait until Longhorn comes out to get the sidebar, here is an app that looks and acts very much like the sidebar in Longhorn. It is freeware.
http://www.smartbarxp.com/cgi-bin/cws/home.php?page=dl_sbxp
- Posted by justin on September 28, 2004
Looks like a decent CSS Reference.
http://www.webucator.com/resources/css/reference.html
- Posted by justin on September 9, 2004
Here is another one of those dumb flash games that are fun to play.
http://www.wagenschenke.ch/HomeRun.swf
- Posted by justin on September 9, 2004
For those people out there that want their DVD's on their pocket pc or new mobile media centers, here is a utility to do it. I have not tried it but it looks pretty cool.
DVD TO POCKET PC
Now you can convert your DVD's to your Pocket PC and watch them in great quality, with stereo sound and in full screen landscape mode. A memorycard as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film, up to a hundred minutes. Take your DVD's on the plane, train or automobile, watch them on vacation, at work or at school. With only two clicks, this PC software converts the content of your DVD to a super small movie file, which will play on any Windows Mobile 2003 device, such as HP iPaq, on a postage stamp size memory card. You can use a headset or the built-in speaker to listen to the sound. Subtitled and foreign language DVD's are also supported. You wil have to see the quality to believe it, using Microsoft's supreme Windows Media 9 encoding, feature films look crisp and sharp on your Pocket PC and still fit on a relatively small Secure Digital card. On a 512 SD card, you can even crunch 4 films!
http://www.makayama.com/dvdtopocketpc.html
- Posted by justin on September 9, 2004
The regexlib site has replaced its old testing tool with a new one. There are lots of new features:
- Ability to grab the source from a Url
- Ability to grab the source from a file on your PC
- Able to test using server-side .NET or client-side Javascript or VBScript
- Able to display .NET matches as either a Grid (group view) or a Tree (capture view)
- Settings that you make in the new "Options Panel" are persisted between sessions
http://www.regexlib.com/RETester.aspx