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Visual communication with Jing

Published on March 19, 2009 in Gems, Javeline and Multimedia. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

I’ve been using this tool for a couple of months now, together with my colleagues at Javeline, and it has proven itself to be a power tool. If I want to show off a (supposedly) cool new thing I’m working on, or visualize this nasty bug that my co-worker promised to fix months ago, I press ‘Command+Shift+1′ automatically now; Jing captures what I’m doing in image or video quality and afterwards I can upload it to my account at Screencast.com with the push of a button. It puts the short URL to my video clip on the clipboard, so that I can paste it in into my chat conversation or blog article right away:

http://screencast.com/t/ojI7mlTF2

It just works. Nice.

It’s free, works on Windows and Mac OS X.

Introducing HTML5 features… now! (Part one)

Published on November 24, 2008 in Articles, HTML5, Javeline, Multimedia and Open Source. 6 Comments

We think the HTML5 specification, published and maintained by the WHATWG, and the Open Web initiative are beautiful entry points to jump start a new generation of Internet applications. There is one downside to these endeavors: we web developers need to wait for browser vendors to implement features like the <audio> tag, <video> tag, undo/ redo, local storage, cross-domain XHR, validation, etc. And even when these features are implemented inside the new browser versions, we still need to wait for them to hit mainstream and replace the old versions. But we don’t want to wait, we want them now!
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