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Screencasting

I've been doing screencasts for jQuery for designers for almost 6 months now, and I'm a big fan of peer learning/teaching - which I hope to achieve through screencasts. I'd like to share some tips that I've come to use in each session I run that might be helpful for budding screencasters. Apologies as I'm [...]

How to rotate a movie

I was recently asked to rotate a video for a friend. Video rotation is required every now and then (especially when you record using a photo camera and the orientation is wrong). It's quite simple to achieve if you've got a Mac and QuickTime Pro (which is dirt cheap). Here's a quick screencast showing [...]

Life Streams with Yahoo Pipes (screencast)

Yahoo Pipes is "an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator". The service easily allows you and me to create a feed of feeds, sometimes known as 'life streams', though I like to call them: soup. Here's a screencast showing how easy it is to create a stream of your online activity, and the JavaScript required to [...]

jQuery AJAX'ed forms

Inspired by Dustin Diaz’s AJAX screencast, I thought it was time I made a little more use of iShowU and show how easy, and quick it can be to pile on some AJAX calories to pretty much any form. The screencast is sans-sound, really just to try to keep my out-going bandwidth down, but I’ve commented [...]

Importing colour in to TextMate

While I was working on one of my client's web site, I realised that I hadn't taken any note of the (hex) colours during my mock up phase. Initially thinking I should download a colour picker, I realised I could probably drag and drop.