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It can get exhausting explaining to clients over and over again how to work their new website, or having to keep calling your mom to remind her how to get the pictures of your dog’s Halloween outfit out of her email and onto the wall.

CamStudio has released freeware that allows you to record the steps directly from your computer and into an AVI or Flash file. As they put it:

“CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)”

Check it out »

High action video!

draw play

Thanks nathan

COLORBUS

Thanks pp!

“Hello.

My name is Red.

I’m a pig.

Recently I had a supporting role in a television commercial for a major international cellular telephone provider. The commercial was directed by the Perlorian Brothers and written by Mother NY.

Everyone was very nice to me, and I think I did a pretty decent job for my first time on set, but I’ve since learned that I’m scheduled to be slaughtered in a week. This is not good for an actor’s career. I knew it was a non-union job and the residuals weren’t anything to get excited about, but I wasn’t expecting to be hung by my foot and have my throat slit.

Fortunately, my new friends at Reginald Pike, Toronto, Biscuit, L.A., and Mother are working to find me a new home at a petting zoo (despite all this, I love humans). You can help me too by getting a limited edition t-shirt with my picture on it at www.reginaldpike.com

They’re only $20 and proceeds go to my care and feeding.

Please help.”

via Adrants

Vitaly Friedman has gone through the trouble of finding 20 beautiful, primarily professional looking fonts that are completely free. No more wading through thousands of movie logo ripoff fonts to find something decent to use, just check out his site.

Yay! I finally got an invite to join the Wallop beta community. Its very very purty. I have 7 invites left to give out if anyone wants one… otherwise you can wait on a long long list and feel sorry for yourself for weeks like I did. The really fun part Im looking forward to is developing some widgets (called mods) when I can rustle together some free time.

Come and join me!

Nathan found this great article:

“Why do I see a message prompting me to ‘click to activate and use this control’ when I roll my mouse over a Flash animation?

This is a result of the latest Internet Explorer update.

Microsoft recently lost a legal battle with a patent holder about the way Internet Explorer displays OBJECTs and EMBEDs in webpages. Microsoft then decided to update its Internet Explorer browser with changes requiring user input to display and activate ActiveX based media. This affects all Flash animations but also other files such as QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java and Adobe Acrobat among others. It means users have to click the object first in order to activate its functions.

Luckily, there are ways for website developers to modify their website so that the user experience is not impacted by Microsoft’s changes. I have selected the easiest and most user-friendly option available at this time…”

Herewith a snippet of JavaScript code to fixeth the problem.