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Camtasia vs. ScreenFlow: Creating Your First Screencast

Written on October 28, 2009 by Matthew Bookspan and 26 people have commented

If you have need to visually demonstrate your product, and you have the resources, then it just makes sense to produce a screencast. With the release of ScreenFlow 2.0, I thought it’d be useful to perform a real-world comparison review of the screencast heavyweight champ versus the relative newcomer (at least to the Mac), Camtasia.
Getting [...]

LittleSnapper Preview Screencast

Written on October 21, 2008 by Nick Santilli and 5 people have commented

After loving Plasq’s Skitch for a while now, I didn’t think I could have feelings for another screen capture utility. At an early glance, it appears I may need to re-evaluate my former stance. Now a days, I’m really looking forward to LittleSnapper from Real Mac Software.
Today the Real Mac folks have released a [...]

Quick Tip: Window Title Bar Icon

Written on July 20, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 17 people have commented

Yeah, sorry, I don’t really know how to title this little trick. Let me see if I can set this up so it’s clear what you’ll be looking at, before you actually look. (Or you can skip me stumbling over myself and just watch it anyway…)
When you’ve got a window open – be [...]

Snapz + Skitch = Jing

Written on July 19, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 4 people have commented

Alright, so while the title of this post is more or less accurate, the polish and full suite of capabilities are not there. But Jing certainly does a nice job of combining the power of Snapz Pro X’s video capture abilities with the simplicity of Skitch to grab screen captures.
Jing’s image editor is lightyears [...]

Screencast: Quicksilver for Beginners

Written on June 29, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 32 people have commented

If you’ve heard about Quicksilver but have been too timid to familiarize yourself with it, or to peek under the hood a bit, this screencast is for you!
Perhaps too often, we (as in the collective web) focus our attention on the cutting edge features of Quicksilver. Unfortunately that can make for a steep barrier [...]

Screencasts Now Have Their Own Feed

Written on June 27, 2007 by Nick Santilli and No one has commented

The more screencasts we’ve posted here on The Apple Blog, the more the question seems to surface of how to get that feed directly. Well the powers that be (Josh) have got you covered. You can now get the screencast-only feed for TAB from this linky-thing here.
iTunes Store submission has also been made, [...]

Screencast: Automator Plugins

Written on June 27, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 14 people have commented

Since Tiger was released it has seemed to me that Automator was one of the unsung heroes that shipped with the operating system. I’m guessing more people use it than we hear about, but just in case, I wanted to show off the use of Automator when saving workflows as plugins, rather than Automator [...]

Screencast: Leveraging Services

Written on June 15, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 25 people have commented

Services are a part of OS X that many users either don’t even know about, or forget to use. They are a powerful bunch of actions that you can apply to your workflow – mostly in cases where you’re working with text.
In this Screencast, I’ll show you firstly, how to trim that over-grown hedge [...]