I recently received an email newsletter from TechSmith regarding their positive experience at Macworld in January. You’re right TechSmith, Mac users are a “great bunch!”
Now they are asking for feedback (via an online survey) from Mac users regarding Camtasia Studio (currently under development) and SnagIt (no news of plans for development yet, but I’m [...]

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After kvetching about the lack of decent motion screen capture software for Mac, and mentioning that TechSmith is finally coming to the rescue with a Mac version of Camtasia, it appears a contender has already entered the ring while TechSmith is still in the dressing room getting taped up for the fight (while thinking they [...]

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I tend to find great beauty in minimalism. Whether it’s visual design, software design, interior design, or product design in general, sometimes the simplest line is the best line of all. You know, the shortest distance between two points. And few current software applications are more beautifully simplistic than WriteRoom, from Hog [...]

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Last month in my post TechSmith and Mac: When Will These Two Kids Finally Hook Up?, I talked about TechSmith’s intention to bring Camtasia to the Mac. And hopefully, someday, SnagIt too. There is an inexcusable gaping hole on the Mac platform for applications like these, and I’m thrilled that TechSmith is finally [...]

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Here’s a fantastic free resource for eLearning development - a complete set of visually-polished icons for a standard PC keyboard to help elevate your eLearning to Beautiful status. These have been a great addition to some of my Camtasia and Articulate work.

Thanks Alan!Note: the website mentions you can get vector-based versions of these images [...]

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Most of you (I hope) are familiar with the differences between raster images and vector images. If you are not, I strongly suggest you Google the subject and do a little reading. This is a fundamental concept of digital graphics that all eLearning developers should understand.
Continuing under the assumption you understand “raster” and [...]

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This is an excellent (and free!) learning resource for eLearning developers who use Adobe products. Which should be most of us.
Personally, I’ve been trying to move my design workflow to apps from small Mac developers (Pixelmator instead of Photoshop, Intaglio instead of Illustrator, etc.) for many reasons (cost being a big one, my love [...]

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There are precious few applications on the Windows side of the world that I truly miss when I’m on my Mac (not counting games, of course). Two of those applications come from TechSmith: SnagIt and Camtasia.
With the visual design emphasis of Macs (and Mac users), the dearth of great screen capture applications is truly [...]

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Another eLearning award, another win for Articulate. This time it’s the Best of Elearning! Awards. And Articulate Presenter is the winner (again) for Best Presentation Tool and Best Authoring Tool. These guys make it look easy.

To Articulate’s competitors: yeah, I know - it just isn’t fair.
Personally, I love Articulate’s products. Articulate [...]

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