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After discovering my sister and aunt both got iPod Touches (and then spending many hours afterward sulking), I decided to look around for ways to get 1 free like my aunt did…. Any ideas?
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Five Best Screencasting Tools - Screencast - Lifehacker
hanks to broadband and some excellent screencasting applications, you don’t need to limit yourself to mere static images when you’re trying to show someone how to do something on your computer. Record video, audio, and do even more with these screencasting tools.
Photo by ToastyKen.
Screencasting can be an enormously handy tool for all manner of things: demonstrating a product, broadcasting your favorite software hack to all of the internet, emailing a how-to video to your less savvy friends or relatives to help them finally grok that whole email-attachment maneuver. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite screencasting tools, and now we’re back with the top five for your perusal.
ScreenFlow (Mac, $99)
ScreenFlow is a Mac-only screencast editor that fills a nice niche between the limited-but-free options and the car-payment-sized options. Screenflow sports advanced features, like the ability to decouple audio and video streams for independent editing and audio ducking (if you’re using background music it’s automatically adjusted during speaking portions of the video); the ability to freeze, speed up, or slow down the video to allows you to time lapse or zoom through a more tedious portion of the task you’re demonstrating. Screenflow also supports custom cursors and callouts for emphasizing the cursor or foremost window.Jing (Windows/Mac, Basic: Free, Pro: $14.95 per year)
Jing is the more compact cousin of Camtasia Studio (see below) and great for less complicated—and more economical!—screencasting. Both the free and pro version are limited to five minutes of screen recording and come with a free account at Screencast.com for sharing your captures. The free version can save video as SWF video and is branded with the Jing logo. The pro version allows you to save your videos as SWF and MPEG-4 files, the branding is removed, and you can also share directly to YouTube (in HD) and record from your webcam. Both the free and pro version use the same intuitive and easy menu.CamStudio (Windows, Free)
CamStudio is a free and open-source offering for the screencasting market. You can record all or part of your screen, customize cursors and text annotations, adjust the quality of the video output, and save screencasts as AVI or SWF files. The interface is easy to understand, and you won’t be overwhelmed with extensive options. In a nutshell, it’s a free and effective tool for creating screencasts without a lot of bulk or expense.Camtasia (Windows/Mac, $299)
Camtasia Studio is a powerhouse in the screencasting world. Packed with features, Camtasia Studio makes it easy to create screencasts with presets for a variety of sharing situations like YouTube, HD displays, Screencast.com, and more. You can edit the audio and video independently so you don’t have to redo a whole segment just because of an oops in the audio or video portion. Special effects and edits are easy to manipulate thanks to fine control over the time line—you can select a portion of your editing timeline right down to the tenth of a second. It’s far from free, but Camtasia Studio is a well thought out and feature rich screencasting tool.ScreenToaster (Web-based, Free)
ScreenToaster is the only web-based offering in this week’s Hive Five, and it definitely fills a handy niche. Whether you don’t screencast enough to want to install a dedicated application or you just need to crank out a quick screencast wherever you are, ScreenToaster can help. You don’t get any advanced editing tools—screw up and you’re redoing it—but you do get full screen capture, support for picture-in-picture webcam video in the lower right corner, and audio for voice-over. When you’re done recording and previewing your clip, you can upload the video to ScreenToaster or YouTube, or download it as a MOV or SWF file. ScreenToaster is free and works with any Java-enabled web browser. -
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![Google OS: the end of the hard drive? - CNN.com
Computers that run on Google OS may boot up in only 7 seconds, like a TV. STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Google reveals new details about its upcoming operating system
The OS should boot up in 7 seconds, similar to a TV
The operating system, called Chrome, is due out next year
It is expected to function more like a browser than like Windows
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(WIRED) — Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
“We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast … to boot up like a TV,” said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management for Google.
The first Chrome OS netbooks will be available in late 2010, Pichai said. It will not be available as a download to run and install. Instead, Chrome OS is only shipping on specific hardware from manufacturers Google has partnered with. That means if you want Chrome OS, you’ll have to purchase a Chrome OS device.
Google is currently working with unnamed computer manufacturers to define specifications for these computers, which Pichai said will include larger netbook-style computers with full-size keyboards, large trackpads and large displays.
Chrome OS netbooks will not have traditional hard disk drives — they will rely on non-volatile flash memory and Internet-based storage for saving all of your data.
All the applications will be web-based, meaning users won’t have to install apps, manage updates or even backup their data. All data will be stored in the cloud, and users won’t even have to bother with anti-virus software: Google claims it will monitor code to prevent malicious activity in Chrome OS web apps.
“Chrome OS is a totally rethought computer that will let you focus on the Internet, so you can stop worrying about your computer,” according to a Google promotional video shown at the event, held at the Google campus in Mountain View, California.
As part of its announcement today, Pichai said that Google would be releasing all of the operating system’s code and design documents to the public.
Introduced in July, Chrome OS is a Linux-based, open-source operating system centered on Google’s Chrome browser. Applications will run exclusively inside the browser, Google said Thursday.
“As of today, the code will be fully open, which means Google developers will be working on the same tree as open developers,” said Pichai.
The OS’s focus on design is consistent with the company’s stance that the future is in the web. In July, Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering vice president and developer evangelist, spoke on a panel about app stores, in which he said native apps (such as those available for the iPhone) would be obsolete in the future, and that the Web will “become the platform that matters.”
“Every capability you want today, in the future it will be written as a web application,” Pichai said Thursday.
Netbooks — lightweight, low-powered sub-notebooks — were the surprise hit of 2008 and 2009. However, with the growth of netbook sales slowing — and the prices of some full-powered notebooks dropping below $400 — the continued viability of the netbook sector is an open question.
Though netbook shipments are falling below manufacturers’ expectations, the inexpensive, low-powered devices appear to still be selling well. Pichai cited research figures from ABI research indicating that 35 million netbooks shipped in 2009, more than twice the number sold in 2008.
Manufacturers have yet to announce pricing on netbooks shipping with Chrome OS, but Google expects the cost to be about the same as current netbooks. On average, netbooks cost between $300 and $500.
Videos demonstrating Chrome OS’s user interface, security, fast boot and other features are below the jump.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kthupq6Q2M1qascsho1_400.jpg)
Google OS: the end of the hard drive? - CNN.com
Computers that run on Google OS may boot up in only 7 seconds, like a TV. STORY HIGHLIGHTS- Google reveals new details about its upcoming operating system
- The OS should boot up in 7 seconds, similar to a TV
- The operating system, called Chrome, is due out next year
- It is expected to function more like a browser than like Windows
(WIRED) — Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
“We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast … to boot up like a TV,” said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management for Google.
The first Chrome OS netbooks will be available in late 2010, Pichai said. It will not be available as a download to run and install. Instead, Chrome OS is only shipping on specific hardware from manufacturers Google has partnered with. That means if you want Chrome OS, you’ll have to purchase a Chrome OS device.
Google is currently working with unnamed computer manufacturers to define specifications for these computers, which Pichai said will include larger netbook-style computers with full-size keyboards, large trackpads and large displays.
Chrome OS netbooks will not have traditional hard disk drives — they will rely on non-volatile flash memory and Internet-based storage for saving all of your data.
All the applications will be web-based, meaning users won’t have to install apps, manage updates or even backup their data. All data will be stored in the cloud, and users won’t even have to bother with anti-virus software: Google claims it will monitor code to prevent malicious activity in Chrome OS web apps.
“Chrome OS is a totally rethought computer that will let you focus on the Internet, so you can stop worrying about your computer,” according to a Google promotional video shown at the event, held at the Google campus in Mountain View, California.
As part of its announcement today, Pichai said that Google would be releasing all of the operating system’s code and design documents to the public.
Introduced in July, Chrome OS is a Linux-based, open-source operating system centered on Google’s Chrome browser. Applications will run exclusively inside the browser, Google said Thursday.
“As of today, the code will be fully open, which means Google developers will be working on the same tree as open developers,” said Pichai.
The OS’s focus on design is consistent with the company’s stance that the future is in the web. In July, Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering vice president and developer evangelist, spoke on a panel about app stores, in which he said native apps (such as those available for the iPhone) would be obsolete in the future, and that the Web will “become the platform that matters.”
“Every capability you want today, in the future it will be written as a web application,” Pichai said Thursday.
Netbooks — lightweight, low-powered sub-notebooks — were the surprise hit of 2008 and 2009. However, with the growth of netbook sales slowing — and the prices of some full-powered notebooks dropping below $400 — the continued viability of the netbook sector is an open question.
Though netbook shipments are falling below manufacturers’ expectations, the inexpensive, low-powered devices appear to still be selling well. Pichai cited research figures from ABI research indicating that 35 million netbooks shipped in 2009, more than twice the number sold in 2008.
Manufacturers have yet to announce pricing on netbooks shipping with Chrome OS, but Google expects the cost to be about the same as current netbooks. On average, netbooks cost between $300 and $500.
Videos demonstrating Chrome OS’s user interface, security, fast boot and other features are below the jump.
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![Use a Waffle Maker to Roll Your Own Pizza Pockets - Food Hacks - Lifehacker
If you want to squeeze even more miles out your seemingly one-trick waffle iron, you can use it to roll your own homemade Hot Pocket knockoffs.
More than a few people have taken a long hard look at their waffle maker and said, “Certainly, you must be good for more than waffles.” We’ve already shown you how you can use a waffle maker to crank out some quick cookies and make some great bacon, but now we’re back to share how one munchie-driven Instructables user turned his into a homemade pizza-pocket maker.
You’ll need a tube of crescent roll dough and whatever filling you want to use. The original author opted to put cheese and pepperoni inside and dip it into the sauce to minimize the mess, but you can put whatever you want into it. You simply unroll the dough, put the ingredient you want inside your pocket, and then fold over the remaining dough. You don’t even need to grease the waffle iron, since the crescent roll dough is made to be used with an ungreased pan.
Check out the full tutorial at Instructables for additional photos and tips. Have a culinary hack of your own to share? Let’s hear about it in the comments below.
Waffled Pizza Pockets [Instructables]
Send an email to Jason Fitzpatrick, the author of this post, at jason@lifehacker.com.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kthuj4PNgm1qascsho1_500.jpg)
Use a Waffle Maker to Roll Your Own Pizza Pockets - Food Hacks - Lifehacker
If you want to squeeze even more miles out your seemingly one-trick waffle iron, you can use it to roll your own homemade Hot Pocket knockoffs.
More than a few people have taken a long hard look at their waffle maker and said, “Certainly, you must be good for more than waffles.” We’ve already shown you how you can use a waffle maker to crank out some quick cookies and make some great bacon, but now we’re back to share how one munchie-driven Instructables user turned his into a homemade pizza-pocket maker.
You’ll need a tube of crescent roll dough and whatever filling you want to use. The original author opted to put cheese and pepperoni inside and dip it into the sauce to minimize the mess, but you can put whatever you want into it. You simply unroll the dough, put the ingredient you want inside your pocket, and then fold over the remaining dough. You don’t even need to grease the waffle iron, since the crescent roll dough is made to be used with an ungreased pan.
Check out the full tutorial at Instructables for additional photos and tips. Have a culinary hack of your own to share? Let’s hear about it in the comments below.
Waffled Pizza Pockets [Instructables]
Send an email to Jason Fitzpatrick, the author of this post, at jason@lifehacker.com.
