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Camtasia for YouTube

If you want to output Camtasia movies for YouTube this clip from www.dougstech.com has some great tips on output profile settings for video, audio, compression… Read more →

Share a screen capture in a Jing

The Jing Project is an experiment from TechSmith , the screen capture/recording people, who are best known for SnagIt Camtasia. It offers a little of each product in a slick, easy to use, form for bot... Read more →

Align, the forgotten AutoCAD hero

A post on Daily AutoCAD , subscribe to this blog if you haven’t already, highlights a brilliant but often forgotten editing command. With “Align” you can move, rotate and scale an object while alignin... Read more →

Faultless typing in live demonstrations?

If you’ve watched a demonstration you’ve probably seen this! If you’ve presented you’ve done probably this! There is an alternative ! Demo shows Notepad with the ActiveWords Bar visible, i... Read more →

AutoCAD 2008 - Linescale sorted?

Did anyone ever really understand the linescale settings in AutoCAD? Confusing enough for “ the imperialists ”, it was further complicated for metric users with the addition of “international” file... Read more →

AutoCAD Architecture 2008 - Easy access to Display Control

AutoCAD Architecture 2008 brings display to the fore by allowing direct access to Drawing, Style and Object display settings, including materials, from the Properties Palette. These settings were prev... Read more →

AutoCAD 2008 - Custom Dashboards, It's your dashboard after all...

As I wrote the Dashboard Layer Control post I noticed all that blank space above the Layer State control. I use the layer off, freeze, lock controls on the former Layers II (before that Express tools)... Read more →

AutoCAD 2008 - Layers on the Dashboard

The dashboard now contains the functions previously seen on the Layer Properties toolbar and more. In addition to the layer settings flyout it allows access to Layer Filter groups which is handy. It a... Read more →

AutoCAD 2008 InfoCenter - "It’s help Jim, but not as we know it”

Apologies for the Trekkie rip off but InfoCenter does take “Help” from the Help menu and creates an information resource for the user. It combines serveral existing help/info features with a powerful... Read more →

Visualising words for work and fun

I’ve posted about Visual Thesaurus before. It’s a web or stand-alone application that offers a remarkable visual tour of language. I have the on-line subscription so can use Visual Thesaurus... Read more →