{"id":196,"date":"2009-01-14T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T16:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-01-14T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T16:57:45","slug":"video-review-screentoaster-brings-free-instant-easy-to-use-screen-recording-to-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/video-review-screentoaster-brings-free-instant-easy-to-use-screen-recording-to-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Review: ScreenToaster Brings Free, Instant, Easy To Use Screen Recording To Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I receive a lot of emails.\u00a0 Most of them fall into the &#8220;Dave, how do I&#8230;&#8221; category.\u00a0 And a lot of times I find myself explaining an answer through written words, when it would be far better to show the person the answer through a screen recording video.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, like nearly everyone, I&#8217;m pressed for time and it&#8217;s quicker to type a response, rather than to create a screen recording, render it to Flash, upload it to a server and send out a link to it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I was intrigued by a brand new service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screentoaster.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ScreenToaster<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It allows you to record your screen (like numerous other applications).\u00a0 However, it&#8217;s 100% web based.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing to download.\u00a0 Nothing to install.\u00a0 It works on Windows or Mac.\u00a0 And&#8230;it&#8217;s dead-simple to use.\u00a0 I mean <em>dead-simple<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You click a button, record what you&#8217;re doing on your screen and instantly get a link to the video that you can send to people (or you can embed the video in a web page or blog).\u00a0 By the way, it also happens to be free.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I realize <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jingproject.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jing<\/strong><\/a> offers similar features&#8230;however, Jing requires operating specific downloads and installs to get started.\u00a0 ScreenToaster is web-based&#8230;meaning you can skip all that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a service I&#8217;m going to start using myself&#8230;and I think it&#8217;s something you should check out too.\u00a0 In fact, below I&#8217;ve put together a video tutorial showing how simple it is to use.\u00a0 And below that, I have a link to an actual video I created using ScreenToaster.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image below to watch my video review of ScreenToaster (if you&#8217;re a Firefox user, you&#8217;ll need to be using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 3.0 or above<\/a> to watch this video):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lyteframe\" rev=\"width: 860px; height: 690px; scrolling: no;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/media\/blog_screentoaster.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.webvideouniversity.com\/playvideo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see an actual screen recording I made using ScreenToaster, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screentoaster.com\/watch\/stVkJUQ0VLRlhWRFRbUlla\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To try ScreenToaster yourself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screentoaster.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>go here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I receive a lot of emails.\u00a0 Most of them fall into the &#8220;Dave, how do I&#8230;&#8221; category.\u00a0 And a lot of times I find myself explaining an answer through written words, when it would be far better to show the person the answer through a screen recording video. 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