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Blogging for Beginners - Purchasing Your Domain Name and Hosting from GoDaddy Welcome to the first Screencast in our series Blogging for Beginners, aimed at guiding you through the whole process of setting up your very own blog using Wordpress. In this first Screencast, we show you how to quickly and easily purchase your Domain Name and Hosting, from GoDaddy. . . . screencast video Video tutorial shows how to create a Custom Number Format in Microsoft Excel. This screencast shows how to format your Excel spreadheet cells quickly and easily Dates, currency, social security numbers, percentages, and many other numbers require different formating to be easily read and understood. Master Microsoft Excel with this quick video showing how to format for rapid reading and comprehension. . . . screencast video Create Free Online Web Albums for your Pictures, using Google Picasa Google Picasa is a fantastic image gallery application, which allows you to search for, edit and view all the pictures, images and video stored on your computer. It also provides a simple upload interface that you can use to upload your images to a web album at Google. In this screencast tutorial, we show you how to quickly and easily use Picas . . . screencast video Video tutorial on how to save your PowerPoint presentations as Shows for a more professional one-click launch Would you like a quicker way to start up your Power Point Presentations? It's simple. This screencast will guide you through the quick and easy steps on how to turn presentations into 'one click' open shows that's sure to save time. Another Mirosoft Office time saving tip . . . screencast video Emailing and scheduling a report to yourself and others - screencast with Mark Rotblat The premier video publishing and reporting site TubeMogul gets better and better! Here, Mark Rotblat shows how simple and easy it is for you to e-mail your tracking reports to yourself and other people. He also show you how you can use the embed code for your reports onto your site. . . . screencast video Installing WordPress using the Fantastico control panel Here is how to install the WordPress blog software using Fantastico (part of Cpanel offered by most host providers). . . . screencast video Creating life-like cloud shapes in Gimp In this screencast, we look at how to use the Dodge/Burn tool and the Blend tool to create a realistic looking cloud in Gimp. It's simple enough, all you have to do is make a sky effect in the window using the doge and burn tool and then blend it all together. Then you use the dodge tool again to draw your cloud and then smudge it in some more. You can also add highlights by using the highlights dodge option and selecting a smaller brush to highlight certain outlines of your cloud and then blend them in to make them look realistic. . . . screencast video Display your Data in an Easy-to-Read Format, by Creating Custom Reports in OpenOffice Base When querying your database, you can output the results in numerous different formats. In the event that you want to print a report of the data retrieved from the search, you will need to create a custom report. In this screencast video tutorial, I show you how to quickly and easily create custom reports in OpenOffice Base, so you can produce . . . screencast video Cropping an Image in Gimp In some cases, you might want to cut down to a specific section of your image and get rid of the rest. This is good for when you have unwanted edges, smudges, brush marks and other things on your image and want to just cut them out completely, without having just massive, random chunks being chopped out of your picture. Cropping your image is the best way to do this, and acts as a kind of guillotine to neaten up your images and remove any unwanted areas. . . . screencast video Screencast tutorial for the visually impaired: Increase the size of fonts on your Windows XP desktop If you're visually impaired, then you may find the font settings of the default windows xp desktop to be too small to read. In this screencast tutorial, we'll show you how to adjust the font settings in the Windows XP Control Panel and increase the size of your fonts on your desktop. . . . screencast video Video tutorial shows where and how to get FREE anti virus software called Avast, to protect your compter This screencast shows another great free resource for protecting your pc Avast! anti-virus software is an award winning application with over 40 million satisfied users Here's how to protect your Windows XP computer for FREE with Avast! anti-virus, so you save on expensive fees like other well known anti virus companies. Watch the tu . . . screencast video How to Make Web Pages Load More Quickly when using Mozilla Firefox When surfing the web, one of the most important factors to consider when choosing your web browser, is the speed at which the pages are loaded. In this Screencast Tutorial, we demonstrate how you can quickly and easily edit the configuration in Mozilla Firefox, so that the web pages you visit load much more quickly. . . . screencast video Creating Glowing Lines and Spotlight Effects using Gimp In this screencast I show you hot you can use the draw path tool to draw curves onto your layer and then how to stroke them with a custom made or existing brush mark. We then look at how to create new layers and work on top of these lines to give them a blurred, glowing effect and how to add spotlights and text to make certain areas stand out. This is cool for making backgrounds or creating unique flowcharts. . . . screencast video Changing, and Applying a Highlight to the Cursor in your CamStudio Recordings When creating a Screencast, it is essential that you make your lesson as clear as possible to your viewer. A useful tip to achieve this, is to ensure they can easily distinguish between their own cursor, and your cursor in the recording. In this Screencast tutorial, we show you how to edit the cursor image and apply a highlight in CamStudio, . . . screencast video How to use the COUNTBLANK formula code in openOffice Calc. In this screencast tutorial, I show you how to use the COUNTBLANK formula code in openOffice Calc, to count the amount of blank cells there may are in your spreadsheet, if any. . . . screencast video How to remove unwanted objects in your photos using the Clone Tool in Gimp Have the perfect photograph but there's just something in the way that you don't want to be there? Something standing out in the background? Using Gimp, you can use the select tools and the clone tool to cover up unwanted areas and make it look like they were never there to start with. For example in this screencast, we look at how to remove some flags from the top of a castle. . . . screencast video Create your own Capture Profiles, to make Screen Capturing Quicker using SnagIt Studio 8 If you use SnagIt Studio to capture images with a similar profile, then you can speed up the capture and editing process by creating your very own capture profile. In this screencast tutorial, we guide you through the process of creating custom capture profiles in SnagIt, including capture dimensions, the type of capture, and adding automatic i . . . screencast video Creating a 3D Orb in Gimp In this screencast, I show you how to create a professional, 3-dimensional sphere in Gimp, adding opacity to create light-bouncing affects and adding faded text underneath. We're also shown how to use the elipse tool to subtract segments of a circle from another. This tutorial is good for if you want to know how to make your shapes in Gimp look more 3D and realistic and is good for is you're wanting to design a logo for a website. . . . screencast video Adding and removing songs to and from your Samsung YP-Z5 MP3 Player The YP-Z5 comes in 2GB and 4GB capacities. Here we look at how to add songs to your mp3 player and also how to remove them. . . . screencast video Video tutorial shows arranging data in OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheet into ascending and descending alphabetical order In Open Office Calc there is a quick and easy way to organize your data into alphabetical order. In this screencast we look at how to do this and how simple, yet effective it is. . . . screencast video

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More Info Tips for Recording Your Browser and Security Issues Here are some tips if you are planning on recording your internet browser. It includes some security concerns to avoid. . . . ...view screencast Creating Professional Looking Backgrounds For Camtasia This tutorial shows how to easily get a professional background on your Camtasia tutorials. . . . ...view screencast