ITS Web Services

Web Services has been researching screen recording software for demos, presentations, and training videos. We recently purchased a product called Camtasia Studio (with education discount). Ultimately, the goal is to add voice narration, text annotations, and integrate the videos with a training app such as Moodle.

Any difficulties viewing the video above? Please let me know. Thanks!

Remember the first time you saw a little web site icon pop up in your browser’s address bar? It was like, “Cool! How did they do that?” Fast forward to 2008 and with the most recent software update for the iPhone, users can save bookmark icons (webclips) to their phone’s desktop. Fortunately, it takes even less time than creating a “favicon.ico” image and you never have to worry about it strange disappearances (IE 6). It’s as simple as creating a 57×57 .png and uploading to your server’s root. Name the file apple-touch-icon.png. Don’t forget to add the rounded border and glassy effect necessary for Apple aesthetic goodness.

John Resig, creator of the JavaScript library jQuery, today released a new library: Processing.js. A port of the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, one application of this library is to provide an alternate to Flash for animation and interactive graphics content. Among the drawbacks are browser support (the library is specifically targeted to the latest beta versions of Firefox and Opera) and the inefficient nature of JS engines (which are not designed to process this type of data), but it’s pretty cool, anyway. Be sure to view your CPU’s performance as evidence of the latter when viewing any of the numerous demos available on Resig’s blog.