Archive for the 'screencast' Category

High Quality Screen Recordings

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

At Oasis Digital we’ve found that we can communicate effectively with each other and with customers, across time and space, using screen + audio recording (also called screencasts or screen videos). We use these to demonstrate a new feature, to explain how code works, to described how a new feature should work, etc. The communication […]

The J2EE / Rails / TurboGears / etc. Video

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Lots of people are linking to this excellent video (presentation and screencast) by Sean Kelly at JPL (380 megabyte, 30+ minutes, worth it):
http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov
Watch it all the way through. Wow.
It’s a little over-the-top in its J2EE example; but the disparity is still stark… and near to my heart as we have a time tracking web […]

Slider Control for Touch-Screen Applications

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

At Oasis Digital we are working on an application that will run on a touch-screen computer, and which will be used to (among other things) control an audio amplification system. There are some design considerations for touch-screen applications which are rather stark once you use the touch-screen for a few minutes:

A finger is rather […]