Archive for the ‘screencast’ Category

WordPress 2.6 Available Now

July 15th, 2008 by Miss604   1 Comment

It’s only been a few month since the release of 2.5 but the bigger, better WordPress 2.6 is now out and Tyner is ready for your download or upgrade almost a month ahead of schedule.
Big features include: Wiki-like tracking of edits, Post from wherever you are on the web, Turbo-speed your blogging (with Google Gears), [...]

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Screencasting Up a Storm

June 19th, 2008 by Miss604   1 Comment

I started doing screencasts in a professional capacity last year and since then the tools have become much easier to use and I’m finding folks are really receptive to the “quick tips” I’ve been offering. As a refresher, I wrote a post last summer about Screencasting Tools and I’ve done a few WordPress tutorials using [...]

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WordPress Screencast Tutorial: Photo Captions

May 24th, 2008 by Miss604   14 Comments

The latest in my WordPress Screencast series is a quick look into how I get captions under my photos in order to give proper attribution. This is basically just the “behind the scenes” setup of the plugins. Once this is setup it’s as easy as clicking the quicktag for the alignment you want then filling [...]

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WordPress Screencast Tutorial: Post Edit Panel Hack

May 14th, 2008 by Miss604   7 Comments

Due to my frustration over missing a few categories in recent posts, I cried out on Twitter this morning about how I’m not too keen on the new placement of the Categories box in the latest version of WordPress. Kulpreet Singh (who presented at WordCamp) came to the rescue with his hack to the edit-form-advanced.php, [...]

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WordPress 2.5.1 Screencast Teaser for WordCamp Vancouver

April 29th, 2008 by Miss604   13 Comments

I just upgraded my WordPress to 2.5.1 and to celebrate as well as promote WordCamp Vancouver this week, I’ve recorded a quick little screencast.
This video has been edited for time on Flickr.
A full version it can be viewed on Viddler.
I just used my MacBook’s internal mic so I know some folks will be cringing at [...]

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Tools to get the job done: Screencasting

August 8th, 2007 by Miss604   5 Comments

I’ve discovered some tools, apps and tricks that have made a part of my ‘real life’ job a lot easier lately. Basically I wanted to start screencasting - providing an online demo video of our new web-based application. After searching and putting the word out to the wonderful Vancity Tech Swarm folks I found the [...]

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Naughty Future Shop Video Helper

July 19th, 2007 by Miss604   4 Comments

Duane was on the Future Shop website today and told me while he was using the “Ask an Expert” feature he decided just for fun that he’d ask some naughty questions.
The idea is, you type in your audio/video related question, the guy on screen says something witty, then forum topics appear below. You can [...]

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