View the most popular screencasts, video lessons and Camtasia Studio tutorials on Screencast Central for 13 April 2008

	Creating Personalised Images Online at ImageChef
	ImageChef is a website which allows you to create customised images online for free, and them simply add them to your web pages. They have an ever expanding library of base images which you can personalise as you require. In this screencast, we show you how to simply create personal images at ImageChef, and how to add them to your web pages
	How to Sign Up for an Account at YouTube so you can Distribute Videos Online
	YouTube is the latest craze to hit the web, allowing users to upload and distribute their own videos. YouTube now boasts more than 100 Million Video Views per day. In this screencast, we show you how to quickly and easily sign up for a YouTube account so you can start to upload and distribute your own videos.
	What is a Screencast?
	I thought I would create a screencast to show what a screencast is. It's quicker to do that than to type a document, create a tutorial, write a blog post... and you get to see what a screencast looks like! Seemed like a good idea at the time :-) TomC The Screencast Cursader
	Tracking video publishers with TubeMogul - Screencast with Mark Rotblat
	The premier video publishing and reporting site TubeMogul gets better and better! Here, Mark Rotblat shows how easy it is to set up video publisher tracking - a powerful reporting feature
	Exporting your Word Processed Documents as PDF Files in Open Office Writer
	In order to protect your word processed documents, it is a good idea to export them for distribution as PDF files, which allows you to encrypt, and add password protection to your work. Open Office Writer includes a built-in Export to PDF feature, and in this screencast tutorial, we show you how to quickly as simply export your documents as PD
	Facebook + ImageChef = Personalised Online Image Editing Fun
	Facebook is the world's fastest growing social networking site with over 50 million users worldwide. ImageChef is a cool, online application that allows you to personalise a range of images, some famous, by adding your own text. Now you can create custom ImageChef images from your Facebook account using the new ImageChef Facebook application, a
	eZs3 - Video Hosting and Marketing Made Easy! Upload and Embed your Camtasia Studio Screencasts to Amazon S3 in UNDER 5 Minutes!
	eZs3 is an new online service that we have been developing, that allows you to upload a whole host of media files to your very own Low-Cost Amazon S3 hosting account, and then simply embed them on your own website. In this screencast tutorial, we show you how in under 5 minutes, you can upload, create a player for, and embed a Camtasia St
	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.
	Using Lavasoft Ad-Aware to Remove Spyware from your PC
	During everyday browsing of the internet, some sites may install malicious programs or data tracking cookies onto your PC which, while normally harmless, can sometimes cause problems and track your internet usage. Lavasoft Ad-Aware program is designed to remove both the malicious programs and data tracking cookies. Ensure you rid yo
	Interview with Andrew Lock - the eBay Auction Renegade - Part 3
	In the third part of four of this interview, Andrew talks about selling on eBay, and highlights some of the most common mistakes people make when listing their items, leading to difficulty finding the items and lower sales figures. He also discusses some useful tips that you can use when listing your own items, to ensure that they're easy to fin
How to use the COUNTIF formula in OpenOffice Calc to compare 2 lists of data.
Here I have 2 lists of US States. I use the COUNTIF formula to work out differences and similarities between the 2 lists.
A Quick Guide to Downloading and Installing FileZilla, a Free FTP Application
File transfers, back-up and management of your files is easy with FileZilla an open source FTP program. Here's a quick screencast on how to download and install FileZilla, a free FTP application, onto your computer. You will see that I use 2.2.29 rather than the latest beta version, this is because I prefer to use a stable version and let the
Problems Watching your Sony Pictures DVDs? Slysoft AnyDVD can help.
If anyone has recently purchased a DVD released by Sony Pictures, and has had problems with scrambled and unwatchable playback, fear not for there is nothing wrong with the Disc, or your hardware. In fact, it is Sony's copy protection alogorithm ARccOS that is causing the problems, and preventing playback of legally bought DVDs. Slysoft Any
Mionet makes sharing files easy, so here's a video screencast on how to get started
If you want to share files quickly and easily and you have windows XP, take a look at Mionet. A free, award winning remote access and filesharing service This screencast shows how you can use Mionet to remotely share files with colleagues, workmates and even family and friends Making working together much more easier. It saves you all h
Screencasting 101 - The Beginners Guide To Camtasia Studio 4
Welcome to Screencasting 101 - The Beginners Guide To Camtasia Studio 4. In this series of screencasts, we will guide you through the whole process of creating your very first screencast. We start right at the very beginning, showing you how to install Camtasia on your PC. We give you a brief introduction to the software, show you how to
Why UK payroll service providers should consider MyPAYE as their online software partner.
MyPAYE is the UKs leading online payroll solution and offers an exceptional opportunity for payroll service providers to increase their revenues. Using an online platform a payroll agency can instantly increase their territory and provide a seamless service to their payroll clients Ian White explains the benefits, including: No softwar
How to sign-up to BTTradeSpace a new online community
BTTradeSpace say it only takes 30 seconds to sign up to their new community... and this screencast proves them right! By simplifying the joining process, BT have made it very easy for UK businesses to join their project and choose the level of service they want. For more info: Int
Uninstalling Programs in Windows XP, using the Add/Remove Programs Wizard - No Background Music
Sometimes it is necessary to remove a program from your PC, for example if you are upgrading or it has become obsolete. It is essential that you remove the program fully from your PC, otherwise you could end up leaving files which effect other programs. In this screencast tutorial, we show you how to successfully uninstall applications in Wind
Learn How to Avoid High-Pitched, Chipmunk Sounding Audio, and Overcome the Problem with Adobe Flash Player
If you have been watching videos and screencasts online recently, you may have come across the problem where the sound becomes high-pitched and fast, and reminds you of the voices on the 90's cartoon the Chipmunks. The problem is not to do with the content itself, but a bug with the latest release of Adobe's Flash player. In this week's scree
How to upload videos to multiple video hosting sites in one go and for FREE, using TubeMogul
In this tutorial, I show you how you can upload your video presentations to several video hosting sites at once by using Tubemogul - a free, online video hosting service. Using TubeMogul, we successfully uploaded videos to YouTube, GoogleVideo, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Crackle and many more ...
Want to know what Joost TV looks like, before you install it? Then watch this video overview: "An introduction to Joost TV"
Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet and is the brainchild of the super successful pair: Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis the creators of Skype. This Screencast is a quick "rough & ready" guide into what Joost TV looks like right now in it's Beta format. Checkout some of its features that really put you in control of your enter
Convert your DVD Movies to Play them on your Portable Multimedia Player, using Madz DVD to iPod/PSP Video Converter
Madz DVD to iPod/PSP Video Converter is an application which allows you to convert your DVD movies into files that you can watch using your iPod or Play Station Portable. Watch this short screencast tutorial to see how, in just a few clicks, you can convert full movies, individual chapters even copy protected DVDs so you can watch them on your p
MyPAYE - Add New Employee Form
In this screencast Ian explains how to use the "Add New Employee Form" rather than the wizard. As some people prefer to work on a single screen, MyPAYE offers this option as well as the wizard. The video shows how the same employee information is gathered.
Screencast video on converting clipart (wmf) graphics and images into encapsulated postcript (eps) files, using free online five converter Media-Convert
In this video tutorial we look at how to quickly and easily convert a file using the great free service at www.Media-Convert.com However, on checking, only www.Media-Convert.com showed the option to convert files to EPS format. In this screencast, we look how to first get the address of the clipart image then save that to the clipboard, a
With a BubblePly overlay, it's easy to add comments, images and hyperlinks to your videos hosted at YouTube, Metacafe, Veoh, JibJab etc
BubblePly is going to be a big hit with video users on the web Anyone who wants to add commentary, instructions or just mention their web address on a video will want to check out this great new service Taking a video on YouTube or any of the other popular media hosting sites, you can easil
Interview with Andrew Lock - the eBay Auction Renegade
Andrew Lock teaches the H3 system as a means of unlocking the true potential of eBay and during this screencast he explains the basics. This interview is broken into 4 parts and this is the first where the "eBay Auction Renegade" talks about first setting up your eBay account and the mistakes that people make straight out of the gate! Andrew
How to Use Ahead Nero to Burn an ISO Image File to a CD or DVD
Creating an ISO image means you create a Master copy or back-up of your material and it's instantly ready to burn a CD or DVD. WHen you burn copies and duplicates from the ISO Image "master" - it is much quicker. When you create or copy DVDs and CDs, there may be reasons why you do not want to burn straight to disc, or it is more suitable t
Using the Add and Remove Wizard to uninstall a program - Screencast Tutorial With Background Music
In this video tutorial, we show you how to remove a program from your PC using the Add/Remove Programs wizard in Windows XP Control Panel. We are also using this Screencast as a survey of your views on the use of background music in screencasts. Using the links below this screencast, check out the exact same screencast without background music
Accept PayPal and Credit Card Payments on your Website by Creating a Buy Now Button.
If you are looking to sell products on your website, but are wary of paying the high fees charged by many of the high street banks, one option you can consider is to create a PayPal account. PayPal allows you to accept payments from other PayPal accounts, as well as debit and credit cards, with incredibly low fees. In this screencast tutorial
Creating your First Screencast Recording in CamStudio
Watch and learn how easy it is to create your very first Screencast recording, using the free desktop screen recording application CamStudio. In this Screencast Tutorial, we give you a brief introduction to the user interface and menus in CamStudio, and then show you how to create your very first recording.
How to Open Microsoft Word Documents in Open Office Writer
Open Office offers full interoperability with Microsoft Office, which means that you can easily open and edit documents that you have created using the Microsoft Office suite, in the equivalent application in Open Office. In this screencast tutorial, we show you how easy it is to open Microsoft Word documents in Open Office Writer
MyPAYE - Running The Payroll
Having set up our payroll options - weekly and monthly - and having added the details of the employees into those payrolls, we can now set MyPAYE to run the payroll At this stage any changes in payroll - such as bonus, hourly rate changte and overtime etc. - can be amended Once the payroll is run by MyPAYE, payslips and reports can easil
Saving OpenOffice Writer documents as Microsoft Word files
With Open Office Writer, you can save your documents in various different file formats. In this screencast, I show you how you can save your .odt files in OpenOffice as Microsoft Office Word files instead, so that they can easily be opened and edited by people who prefer to use Word rather than Writer, or if they don't have OpenOffice on their
Using Roboform to Securely Store your Online Passwords
Roboform is a password manager, that allows you to securely store your online passwords on your PC, so that you can automatically log in to sites without having to remember numerous passwords. Featuring a master password, you can safely store all of your online passwords and details, without having to worry about their security. You can downl
How to Change your Homepage in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
By default, the Homepage in Microsoft Internet Explorer is set to be Microsoft's own page. In this Screencast, we will show you how to quickly and easily edit the Homepage in Internet Explorer, to a page more relevant to your browsing habits.
Time saving keyboard shortcuts demonstrated using Microsoft On-Screen Keyboard
Keyboard shortcuts are great - if you can get into the habit of using them - this quick screencast tutorial shows the most popular keyboard shortcuts I wanted to demonstrate the shortcut in action... so I launched Microsoft On-Screen Keyboard and typed in the shortcuts with it. You can see the keys I hit and how they powered the shortcu
How to annotate shapes & diagrams in OpenOffice Draw.
In this quick tutorial, I show you how you can add text to your shapes/diagrams in OpenOffice Draw.
Keep in Contact with your Friends, Family and Colleagues, by creating an account at Facebook
Facebook.com is the latest craze in social networking sites to hit the internet. Tipped as being more user friendly than MySpace, Facebook allows you to keep in contact with your friends, family and colleagues, create a profile about yourself, message people, and add cool applications to do a whole range of tasks. In this screencast tutorial,
Interview with Andrew Lock - the eBay Auction Renegade - Part 4
In the final part of this interview, Andrew discusses a new development within the eBay community - Classified Ads. He talks about some of the main differences between classified ads, and standard eBay listings, and how you can use them to your advantage to drive traffic to your website, to increase your overall business sales. Andrew offers
How to sign up for S3Dashboard a new service for uploading and managing multimedia hosted on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
If you want to use Amazon S3 to host your large media files and take advantage of their low cost hosting and super efficient servers, without learing all about buckets and other Amazon terms, then take a look at www.S3Dashboard.com S3Dashboard makes uploading files to your Amazon a breeze, but that's just the start Once you have uploaded
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.
A Quick Guide on how to Insert Special Characters into your Documents, Using the Character Map
When creating documents, you will sometimes find that you need to insert characters that do not appear on your standard keyboard. To do this, you need to use the Character Map, included as a system tool in Windows XP. In this Screencast, we show you how to quickly and easily add these special characters, using the Character Map.
How to group a number of images as one item in OpenOffice Draw.
Sometimes, when you have a big diagram with lots of images in OpenOffice Draw, it's possibly to get confused and move the wrong images by accident. So, in this tutorial, I show you how you can group a number of images so that they can be selected all at once as one item.