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What Is Screencasting Publish Date: Nov. 16, 2005
Whether it's for a tutorial, a how-to, or a software review, if you have a product you'd like to explain to other users, screencasting—the art of screen recording with audio narration—can be both easier and more effective than written descriptions accompanied by static screen shots. Jon Udell walks you through how to make, edit, and deliver compelling screencasts.
Audio Linkblogging Publish Date: Jul. 18, 2005
Jon Udell experiments with audio linkblogging in his latest column (a follow up to his MP3 Sound Bites article) to show how he creates a sound-bite podcast of interesting quotes from his collection of online audio programs and
interviews.
Screencasting Strategies Publish Date: Jun. 13, 2005
In response to reader requests for more information on the process of making screencasts--video representations of screen activity--Jon Udell devotes this column to guidelines and tips he's developed for capturing audio and video, and for editing screencasts, regardless of the tools you use.
The New Freshman Comp Publish Date: Apr. 22, 2005
In Jon Udell's latest column, he talks about screencasting, a subgenre of film that tell stories about the limited--but growing--slice of our lives that is mediated by software. Jon explains how your coding instincts can help you become a better writer, which in turn can help you in creating audiovisual narratives for screencasting. Speech and video, says Jon, should join writing and editing as the new freshman comp.
Hypermedia: Why Now? Publish Date: Mar. 18, 2005
In his latest column, Jon Udell explains why the hypermedia platform has now matured. While there's still standardizations needed in some areas, Jon points to broadband connectivity advances, streaming media and progressive downloading, blogging, and the latest craze, podcasting, as evidence the time is now for the networks of rich media.
Heavy Metal Umlaut: The Making of the Movie Publish Date: Feb. 7, 2005
Jon Udell explains the process of making a documentary screencast, taking a look at the various screencast genres and examining the potential significance of this medium.
MP3 Ins and Outs Publish Date: Jan. 7, 2005
Current tools lack a conventional way to find and export the "ins and outs" of multimedia files, meaning the start and end times of segments. Jon Udell examines how this can be done today in four of the most popular multimedia programs and offers a modest proposal for a common feature set that will make the selection of time-based content as easy as the selection of text is today.
Mobile Webcasting Publish Date: Dec. 6, 2004
Jon Udell looks at streaming webcasts with both QuickTime and Helix.
Movies of Software Publish Date: Nov. 11, 2004
Jon Udell examines using movies to describe, demonstrate, or document the behavior of software in this month's installment of Primetime Hypermedia.
Marrying Hypertext and Hypermedia Publish Date: Oct. 13, 2004
Jon Udell examines how to segment and annotate online video in this month's installment of Primetime Hypermedia.
MP3 Sound Bites Publish Date: Sep. 3, 2004
Jon Udell demonstrates an MP3 clipping service he wrote to enable quotations of sound bites, in this second installment of his Prime-Time Hypermedia column.
Prime-Time Hypermedia Publish Date: Aug. 4, 2004
In this first installment of a new column, Jon Udell reviews and elaborates on a variety of hypermedia techniques he's been experimenting with.
Scripting Groove Web Services Publish Date: Dec. 9, 2002
Jon Udell describes a proof-of-concept application using Groove Web Services, showing implementations in both Perl and C#.
Googling Your Email Publish Date: Oct. 7, 2002
Tired of searching through all of your mail just to find one particular message? Jon Udell looks at ZOË, software that can, in essence, Google your email. Written in Java, ZOË proxies your mail traffic and builds useful search and navigation mechanisms.
Scripting Collaborative Applications with Flash Communication Server MX Publish Date: Aug. 2, 2002
Flash MX and the FlashComm server together deliver event-driven peer networking, streaming-media services, powerful components that embody the essential tools of collaboration, and a productive scripting environment that targets networked teams of people.
