Siena Schools Me on How to Unmute You know how when you’re flipping through photos on your iPhone or iPad and you come to a video and it starts to play but it’s muted? I think we’d all agree that it’s a good thing that it defaults to muted. When this happens to me, I […]
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Star Trails from Insta360 X3 Camera (and a Bonus Video of the Annular Solar Eclipse)
In August I gave you my review of the Insta360 X3 Action Cam. My ending line of the review was, “The camera has so many features I haven’t discovered let alone used them all yet, so I have a lot of fun ahead of me finding out what this action camera can really do.” I’ve […]
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If you’ve ever needed to get feedback from a group of people, using the free Google Forms is a great way to do it. You can create surveys, get feedback on a class you’ve taught, help organize a family reunion, or even create quizzes. I’ve used it to organize the party we used to throw […]
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Lindsay asked for an unusual present for her birthday this year. She asked for a Motion Book from themotionbooks.com. The Motion Book is a video screen inside a book that automatically plays any videos or slideshows you put on its internal storage. She wanted one of The Motion Books so she could have her wedding […]
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Insta360 X3 Portable Action Camera Hi, this is Husband Steve with a review of the Insta360 X3 Action Camera. A few months ago, our good friend Pat Dengler showed us her new spherical camera, the Insta360 X3, and after seeing its capabilities, I knew I wanted one. Being the thoughtful wife she is, Allison kindly […]
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In May I told you about the amazingly capable and inexpensive screenshot/annotation tool called Shottr. I’m so enamored with Shottr that I decided to create a full video tutorial about it for ScreenCastsONLINE. As always, I learned so much more about the tool because I had to really know how to use all of it, […]
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In October I had a gentleman named Darcy Hegarty on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about the process he uses to create video screencasts for the video tutorial podcast ScreenCastsOnline. I wanted to talk to him about this because he created a process that is vastly different from how I do it for […]
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In February I told you about a really nifty, free Safari extension called Keyword Search. I was so enamored with this tool to vastly speed up my web searches for specific sites I visit often, that I decided to do a video tutorial about it for ScreenCastsOnline. I had so much fun recording this one […]
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You know I’m a huge fan of all products from Rogue Amoeba, and couldn’t do any of the podcast work I do without Audio Hijack. In my blog post entitled Audio Hijack 4 – So Much More than Just a New Coat of Paint, I sang the virtues of the newly redesigned Audio Hijack 4. […]
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The Problem(s) to be Solved Tiny Litra Glow and Keylight Air When the world started working from home, people had to learn how to do video calls in an environment built for making dinner, watching tv, and wrestling with the children. Most people’s setups were pretty bad, but over time, people began to realize that […]
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