January 4, 2011
Sharing video or audio with friends and perfect strangers is easier than ever before thanks to the Internet and the wide array of social websites. Actually recording that video and/or audio, however, can still be a pain. One solution to this problem is SMRecorder, a versatile free recording program for Windows. SMRecorder can record audio, [...]
October 17, 2010
Postage stamps and letters made out of dead trees are getting out of fashion, but (holiday) greeting cards aren’t. If you’re going to make the switch to digitalism, you’d better do it in style. A picture is said to convey a thousand words; a video all the more. Welcome to the future. A recorded video [...]
June 17, 2010
Skype is one of the easiest ways to video chat with others across the globe for free. Using Skype is easy, and most video calls provide solid quality and connection stability. So many use Skype video calls for business, while others might use them to keep in touch with friends and family across the globe. [...]
May 27, 2010
When you work on or with the web, you often have to take screenshots or videos of what you’re doing. You may need to make a copy of a website for your documents, capture a process for a presentation, or simply prepare images for an article you’re writing. Rather than installing yet another nifty tool, [...]
March 10, 2010
A few of us writers here at MUO are pretty fond of the free screen capture application, Jing, because of its practical and time saving features and because, if you haven’t noticed, we use lots of screenshots in our articles. MUO has already published a few articles about how to use Jing for both image [...]
February 5, 2010
Screencasts are those videos depicting a shot of a computer screen. There are many applications for such a program such as tutorials and software reviews. It is also often used to record video chat conversations. There are quite a few tools for creating screencasts. Today I would like to review another free screencasting tool that [...]
February 3, 2010
If there’s a Playstation 2 somewhere in your closet gathering dust, chances are you have an EyeToy in there somewhere too. And if you have an EyeToy, you have a USB webcam. That’s right: the EyeToy can be used as a regular webcam on Windows XP, Linux and Mac computers. If you’ve been meaning to [...]
January 7, 2010
We all use certain productivity and communication tools that become an integral part of our everyday life. For me, one of those tools is Skype, and in 2005 when Skype 2.0 introduced the video calling feature, I was pretty excited. Of course, that excitement was short-lived until a year or two later when more of [...]
December 24, 2009
It’s the holiday season and the family is coming around to visit as usual. And as usual the technology requests are in. This year I have been tasked with converting VHS videos to DVD. I did not want to spend a fortune on conversion software and as the story goes I wanted FREE software so [...]
December 17, 2009
So you’ve taken the plunge and jailbroken your iPhone. If you’ve taken a look at all of the apps that are now available to you, there are an overwhelming number for you to choose from. A number of alternative iPhone app stores are available for your jailbroken iPhone, the largest and best supported of which [...]
