SCREENCASTS

April 06, 2005

camtasia studio screencasts

I have been a bit behind in my screencasts/scrawdcasts the past couple of weeks due to my travel schedule …. I have another screencast in the can (Part 2 of my searching the USPTO website series) and I hope to have it up this weekend…

Unfortunately, time has slipped by and my trial license for Camtasia Studio is about to expire.  I would recommend the software to anyone interested in screencasting and online tutorials.  The folks at TechSmith seem like a great group of folks and they actually dropped me an email to let me know they appreciated my use and blogging about Camtasia Studio. 

I had planned to use Camtasia for several additional screencasts and slowly learn more of its capabilities (PowerPoint, video in video etc.) and perhaps one of the winners of the software at the BlawgConnect dinner (pictures at Bob Ambrogi’s site) will push the technology forward until I can come back around to the software. 

Jim Calloway enjoyed harassing me at TechShow with the fact that I hadn’t won a copy of Camtasia at BlawgConnect, so I think that even had I won – I wouldn’t have won, if you know what I mean.

Lesson learned: schwag (not the band) should always trump scholarship!  That will teach me to stay and teach rather than schmooze with blawgers in Chicago!

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at 12:50 AM.
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SCREENCASTS

March 21, 2005

USPTO screencast part 1 - keyword searching patent information

The latest PHOSITA Screencast (or Scrawdcast if you prefer) is here: Searching the US Patent Trademark Office Website for Patent Information.

This screencast walks you through the steps of keyword searching the US Patent and Trademark Office’s online issued patent and pending application database.

The PTO’s websites (uspto.gov) is the first place everyone should start when searching for U.S. patent literature.  Hopefully this short tutorial will get you on your way to searching arcane technologies in no time. 

The second installment of this screencast will walk through the steps of searching by technology classification – a great way to (1) get and stay current in a technology field and (2) keep an eye out on what your competitors may be patenting or filing patent applications.

Drop your online search tips into the comments below and receive some karma in return – the comments are moderated, but I approve them at least twice a day.  If you have any ideas for future screencasts – things you would like to know, have demonstrated etc.  – drop me an email or put it in the comments.

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at 01:37 AM.
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SCREENCASTS

March 16, 2005

delicious tags posted to movable type screencast

We received some fantastic responses to our screencast (which, thanks to Denise Howell, is now dubbed a “scrawdcast”) test last week. 

Keep the ideas coming!

One of the comments from Steve inquired as to how we were posting lists of Del.icio.us links into PHOSITA. 

I thought this was a great question and figured answering it would make a great screencast and provide me a more complex tutorial through which to run Camtasia Studio.

So, PHOSITA screencast #2 is on Del.icio.us Posting to MovableType (5MB Flash File)

The tutorial mentions several urls which may be too small to read in the Screencast with the 1280x1024 monitor settings I was using.  These urls are:

Additionally, here is a table of the variables to input:

job_name is a name for the posting thingy
out_name is the login name for the site
out_pass is the password for the site
out_url is the xmlrpc url, probably like mt-xmlrpc.cgi
out_time is the GMT hour to post on, 0-23.
out_blog_id is the blog id #
out_cat_id is the optional category id #

Finally, the KadyElleBee blog has a great overview post with links to many different alternative ways to accomplish this task.

Hopefully it is useful.  As always, I would appreciate any feedback – drop me an email.

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at 01:31 AM.
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