12 Screencasting Tools For Creating Video Tutorials. Ever wondered how people show you so clearly what is happening on their computer, like in the Photoshop Video Tutorials we shared with you?
Thanks to screencasting software, anyone can do it. So what's stopping you now from making your own how-to videos? Try out one of these 12 tools and get to making your first video! Free AviScreen - As the name would imply, this capture program records the video into AVI files, but can also do BMP photos. CamStudio.org - An open source program for capturing your on-screen video and audio as AVI files. Copernicus - A free program for Macs that focuses heavily on making quick and speedy films by recording the video to your RAM for quicker access. JingProject.com - Beyond recording video, Jing allows you to take a picture of any portion fo your desktop, draw on it, add a message, and immediately upload your media to a free hosting account. Wink - Screencasting software that focuses on making tutorials with audio and text annotation abilities.
Commercial. Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes. BitNami: Open Source. Simplified. Resources from my DevTeach talks - Jeremy D. Miller. To everybody that attended one of my talks at DevTeach this week.
All of the materials are now online for download at the DevTeach website. If there’s something else you find missing or just want to find, please drop a comment and I’ll post more links. I’ll write a longer writeup after I get home over the weekend, but in the meantime I’d like to thank everybody that attended my talks this week. I got a tremendous reception from the audience and I loved the stream of questions and conversations during the talks. Some speakers want just to tell you things, but I do a lot better speaking in informal talks where the audience is participating and DevTeach has been great for that. Other Reading I used a lot of examples from StoryTeller for both WinForms samples and build automation samples. Agile Design Maintainable Ecosystem Put that Wizard Down! Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Open Source Alternative to Commercial Software.
OPEN SOURCE GOD: 480+ Open Source Applications. Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications for you to use or build upon.
Feel free to add more apps in the comments. And don’t forget to subscribe to Mashable for the latest web news and resources. Also see the other entries in this series: ONLINE PRODUCTIVITY GOD, WORDPRESS GOD, ONLINE MEDIA GOD and FIREFOX GOD. Accounting Adaptive Planning Express - An open source solution enabling medium sized companies to automate budgeting and forecasting by moving beyond traditional applications like Excel. Buddi - A simple budgeting program for users with no financial background. CheckItOut - A Ruby on Rails application to manage personal money accounts. FrontAccounting - A professional web-based accounting system for ERP chain; written in PHP with use of MySQL. GFP - A free java based personal finance manager with the ability to run on any operating system. TurboCASH - Flexible small business accounting software fulfilling the major needs of any business.