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Free Screen Capture Video Software

Just received an email from Alex Mandossian which sent me to a great new application called Jing. It lets you take video screen shots of your desktop so you can do demos and then share them with colleagues.

The intro video is worth its weight in gold and a great example of excellent copy. I'll probably start using this right away to create some demos. Will keep you posted. In the meantime, check it out for yourself:

www.jingproject.com

Have fun.

Fantastic New Feature in Mac OS X Leopard

I installed Mac OS X Leopard last week and while it's great and everything, I just discovered a new feature that is going to significantly boost my productivity.

In Safari 3.0, there is a tool that lets you paste portions of a web page into the Dashboard. (It's that scissor icon in the toolbar.) Then when you want to see them, you just open Dashboard and they show up.

I've put the news section of Yahoo home page, my Facebook profiles, and several more on there.

How does this improve my productivity?

They are my default pages I go to when I take writing breaks. But they can suck a large part of my hour away. Now I just press a button and instantly see all the web info I want to see, and then it's right back to work.

Ah, Apple. What will they think of next?