All posts of Ian

New ProCast for Inuda’s HowSociable

I’ve just completed a new screencast for Inuda’s HowSociable.com brand-measuring site.  I show the social services (e.g. Flickr, Facebook, Ning) that are used to measure a brand’s visibility on the social web and tell the viewer why they will want to sign-up for monthly updates. This is the first piece of pro bono work I’m […]
16 years ago

CamTasia tip – increasing the call-out length

I’ve just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out an odd behaviour in CamTasia v5.1.0.  The documentation (great video demo) explains that a call-out can be added, and then by dragging the call-out we can change the length for its display. Only…it seemed that you couldn’t drag the length.  You can easily drag its position, […]
16 years ago

Successfully using eLance for static-website design

To develop my professional screencasting site ProCasts.co.uk I chose to out-source development via eLance.  Knowing that out-sourcing smaller, easily-defined jobs is likely to become common-place as time passes, I figured that diving in and working with someone elsewhere on the planet for my new site would prove to be an interesting and useful experience. Lo […]
16 years ago

ProCasts.co.uk – first version on-line

I’m very pleased to say that the first version of ProCasts, my professional screencasting site, is now on-line.  I’m taking the professional screencast activity that I performed for three years under the older ShowMeDo Services site and building it up as my own activity. The site has one screencasting example by me (along with many […]
16 years ago

Learning Python via ShowMeDo

Every now and again it is useful to look back at what’s been achieved – ShowMeDo started three years ago and we considered ourselves lucky if 1 Python video was contributed a month.  Now we get several whole series each month!  Often each series is information-laden and created by a competent screencaster.  Viewers learn very […]
16 years ago

RoboChick – Emily’s first post

Emily has started blogging on RoboChick, she’s talking about the Herbie the Mousebot birthday prezzie I bought her (pcb + parts + motors == hours of fun), one of the two wheeled robots that I thought would make for cool projects.  I hope she gets the pictures up soon…Robot pictures in flickr.
16 years ago

Experimenting with eLance

I’ve posted a job into eLance for the first time – I figure it is time to experiment with remote web design and CSS implementation.  Now this might seem odd given that I live in web-designer-rich Brighton… I’m a believer in building on-line marketplaces where we can remotely trade our skills rather than only doing […]
16 years ago

£5 App Write-up (6 demos at our Demo Camp)

What a fab night!  I counted 46 people which makes this possibly the largest event we’ve thrown – thanks to all for attending.  Sponsored beer, live Qik video, 6 great talks and lively post-event pub conversation – who could ask for a better evening?  Josh made this rather excellent panoramic view of us all: Each […]
16 years ago

New PC + Ubuntu

I’ll jot these down as helpful notes for others.  I’ve just bought a new Mesh PC, it includes an nForce 610i chipset (with video and audio) and a separate GeForce 8500 GT graphics card. Ubuntu Hardy installed without hitch, it found my nVidia and suggested the restricted driver, it was happy with the SATA 500Gb […]
16 years ago

From Demon Internet to BeThere

I figured a quick report on my fab move from Demon Internet to BeThere was in order.  I was ‘pretty happy’ with my Demon adsl but I’m pretty wowed by BeThere. I decided to switch as a friend did a speedtest and had a much faster connection than I was getting with Demon under my […]
16 years ago