If indeed a picture is worth a thousand words then perhaps a screencast is worth a million? Your viewers get to see your application in action just as if you were giving a live demo (but without any annoying crashes or slow-downs!), they hear a friendly human voice and they get to see your tool solving their problem. What could be more convincing?
For evidence for how screencasts can double sign-ups, increase sales, reduce your bounce-rate (by 7%) and halve your support costs, see our 4 mini case studies. In this series we’ll look at all the steps you need to take to make beautiful screencasts that explain your software to your users. It is aimed at anyone selling software or web-applications who wants to increase their user-numbers and sales.
Some may have noticed that a new category appeared a couple of weeks ago. At the beginning, we were like "Awesome, let's try a Mobile channel", "Great idea", "But how will user toast their phone?", "Users will find a way, keep cool!". One of our developer said "I used to make yoghurt pot telephones when I was young". So we decided it was definitely a great idea.
Android: If you want to have a rapid look at android's features, you can go on T-Mobile's site, which proposes an online emulator for the G1.
To access to the complete version of the emulator, you can download it on developers.android.com.
Iphone: For an overview of the features of the iPhone (unfortunately not all available), visit merhl.com and simulate calls or check your mail box... You can also download the complete version of iPhone's emulator at developer.apple.com
BlackBerry: Download your BlackBerry Device Simulator here. Once installed, you can test and use the software as a real phone.
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Here are some examples of posted videos from iPhones and Android:
On ScreenToaster, the publication of a video automatically generates an embed code. What is an embed code? Ok, let me tell you. It is a simple code used to plug a document - a picture, a song or a video - into another document such as a forum, a blog or a website.
You can find the embed code of each video in the "Spread" box. To insert a ScreenToaster video on your blog or website, you just need to copy the embed code then paste it in your html code. Last but not least: Views of embedded videos are taken into account in ScreenToaster stats. Thats always good to know..
I'm not going to show you how to capture smooth and fluid screencasts with sixteen open Firefox browsers and a 3D calculator running in background. No, here are simple hints that may help some users improve the quality of their contents.
1. Close the main running applications before recording to gain fluidity. 2. Avoid fullscreen recordings for video recapture and complex 3D images. 3. Avoid to move your mouse too fast during the recording. 4. Avoid to use your mouse scroll wheel. Prefer the Page Down / Page Up arrows. 5. Avoid to move the windows of your navigator. 6. Avoid to use the scrollbar on your navigator. 7. Avoid to capture ads with lots of animations.
Adding music to your screencasts is a very simple way to generate audience. Even a "How to use SAP Customer Relationship Management System" video can become very interesting with a good soundtrack. But first, you need to configure your computer. Bad news: every computer has its own parameters. Here are three tutorials for Mac, XP and Vista. Hope this will help.
How to enable "Stereo Mix" on Windows XP - RealTek
I'm not going to show you how to capture smooth and fluid screencasts with sixteen open Firefox browsers and a 3D calculator running in background. No, here are simple hints that may help some users improve the quality of their contents.
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