AppStore WordPress Plugin Setup Guide
Sometimes you just have to do things, not because of money and other nonsense. You just have to do them because. In my case I did a free (quick, dirty, etc.) screencast for a WordPress plugin named “AppStore Plugin”. A WordPress plugin that integrates iOS and Mac App Store (TradeDoubler) links in a spectacularly beautiful way. The links look very nice and using this plugin integrating...
Read MoreMyMac 327: Nuke and Pave
I made a recent appearance in the 327th episode of the MyMac.com Podcast. I’ve been invited as a guest and was exclusively interviewed about the screencasting I’m doing. So in case if you’re interested…have a listen. Oh, and don’t forget to subscribe! As I said in between one of the segments that podcast is one of my favorites. I love listening to Guy’s and...
Read MoreScreencasting Best-Practices
I’ve written an article for Smashing Magazine about Most Common Mistakes in Screencasting. It took about 6 months of work to finish the writing. After a first major rewrite by myself the Smashing Magazine crew did a final edit. The finished piece is about 5,000 words long. You’ve been warned! Comments are more than welcome. Permanent link to this post (56 words, estimated 13 secs...
Read MoreNew Screencasting Workflow
After receiving Final Cut Studio and starting to work with it. Final Cut and the applications bundled within the Studio changed my screencasting workflow, apparently. In this article I want to describe how this acquisition influenced my screencasting. New Screencasting Workflow I knew Final Cut Pro already. Not entirely, but I am familiar with it. I knew that Final Cut Pro has functions to...
Read MoreVisualizing Clicks on a Mobile Device
Lately I ran into small problems with iPhone and iPad screencasting. Obviously all current solutions for making iPhone or iPad screencasts require a jailbroken device. The programm that I’m using to display and record my touches on the phone doesn’t work very reliably in its current version. So I was looking for alternatives. Having already spent a short amount of time creating my own...
Read MoreThe zCasting 3000 Logo-Story
Many logos have a looong story behind them. Ours, though, is a pretty short one. When we were searching for a name for zCasting 3000, we were trying out different combinations of names with the character z in their name. So we came up with names like screencastz.com or zcreencasts.com. (yuck!) After a couple of tries we couldn’t find any good name. So we were...
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