What’s screencasting
So what is screencasting? Well, one of the main features we offer is a very inexpensive content management system for your website. People want to be able to udpate their own content and I’m all for that. Technology shouldn’t be an obstacle preventing you from communicating through your web site. Still, people have varying levels of comfort with technology. So for some of our clients we’ll actually make screencasts.
Screencasting is using an application to record your desktop as you’re using it, including audio, and convert it into a flash animation video file that people can watch in their web browsers. To do this I use a software called CamStudio. It works very well and again, it’s free. Try it out.
Dinner at the Pirates Cove
Peggy and I went out with the fellas to dinner at the Pirate’s Cove the other night. I know it’s out of the County but she has always liked Pirate’s Cove. We’ve gone to dinner there quite a few times (and as Peg will tell you, her folks used to keep their boat there) but never really realized they had this great special for a crab cake and crab imperial. Good stuff.
Peggy and I got the crab cake and crab imperial special.
And if you need to edit the sound for your podcast
then I highly recommend Audacity. It’s free list most of the tools I use. The only software I really pay for is Adobe and Quark. Anyway Audacity is one of the easiest to use and most popular sound editing applications on the web. Very easy to install. After i get the sound file out of Gizmo, I use Audacity to edit the sound file before I upload it to our web server to put the podcast online.
If you need to make some calls over the web
I recommend the Gizmo Project. Now I know most people use Skype but I prefer Gizmo. I hear the sound quality is better and a really cool function in Gizmo is that you can record your call. So I’ll do it when I’m calling Schenk to make our podcast. It also had a limited feature soundboard so I can even put in some sound effects while we’re talking. The simpsons sounds effects usually work pretty well for our conversations. Best of all it’s free as long as the person is also using Gizmo. Give it a try.
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