Recording video tutorial never got much easier then this one. Screen Toaster is a free web based screen recorder utility designed to capture screen activity in real-time to create and share tutorials, demos, trainings, lectures and more. Fire up the web page your recording studio is ready to go you can also add audio, embed webcam while you record and once you are finished you can even add subtitles, choose thumbnails, add tags to your video share it with friends over social networks with privacy setting allowing you to control the access to the video you made. You can now also automatically upload HD screen casts directly to YouTube from Screen Toaster also you can download videos in .mov format for editing on your desktop. Their beta API allows you to integrate Screen Toaster into your website thus allowing your users to create / share and distribute video tutorials.

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If you are a web designer or a web developer, the word cross browser testing always come up and the cross browser testing in IE always pop up as IE have multiple versions and according to W3schools in August 2008

• 26% users use Internet Explorer7
• 24% users use Internet Explorer 6
• 0.1% user use Internet Explorer 5
• 43% users use Firefox

For firefox we don’t have much issues cause the browser updates automatically and usually the users are using the new version but for IE the different version is a problem as the those using IE are usually using Windows where browser is the core functionality of the operating system.

How to install different versions of Internet Explorer.

A very handy tool called Internet Explorer Collection offers you the ability to install and use different versions of Internet explorer at the same time.  The package is freeware with a size of 42.4 MB, 44.561.338 bytes, just download the package and you can select the versions of standalone Internet explorer you would like to install, so far they are providing the following versions of Internet Explorer. (more…)

Ever wondered how you can save your video chat’s with friends, or how you can make a video file out of your webcam or even record scene’s from your fav DVD’s to your computer. Well here is a really exciting tool by NHC software.

Designed to be very easy and intuitive to use, Debut will have you up and running, ready to record video within minutes. The video broadcasting, video conferencing & video chat have become common for all, ever wondered how you can save those videos for future reference.  We have got a tool for you it not only save’s & records video from your webcam but can record almost anything that is being played on your computer screen.

Debut seems to be one of the most comprehensive video capturing software, compatible with windows 98/2000/XP/2003/Vista, debut can capture any video that is on your computer screen, it can save that video with audio into a number of video formats i.e. AVI, WMV, MP4, MPG, 3GP, and MOV.

I can think of multiple posibilities with Debut not only you can save you video chats, but can even record video if you have a cable tv connected to your computer, or you can capture clips or save you complete DVD while you are watching it. Another exciting feature is you can even use it to capture screen’s and then share it with friends in a video format. It can be used for building video tutorials of your web applications or software as well.

Apart from that the most interesting thing its free of cost, all you have to do is go to this link or click here to download Debu directly, run the setup and you are ready to go.

A Google Talk chatback badge will let visitors to your web page chat with you. They’ll be able to chat with you whenever you’re signed in to Google Talk

Initially this concept was started up by skype who introduced the badge or buttons to be placed on your webpage, or myspace page and people can click to either call you or add you to there skype account, now gtalk have started the gtalk chatback badge.

Pro’s of Google gTalk Chat back Badge

• Any one can simple click on it and have chat with you if you are online
• No need for any software like gtalk etc for the end user the chat starts in a pop up window
• Easy to implement on your website, mySpace page or your blog, you can chit chat with people visiting your site or profile at mySpace
• Can open up a new channel of communication something like MyBlogLogs
• Difficult to customize to the style of your site…

Con’s of Google gTalk Chat back Badge

• You don’t know who you are talking to cause there is no option for end user to add his information like e-mail or even name
• Its a bit slow for end user, and in my experience people click on it and wait and then close it and leave
• There is no record or history maintained for the chat …

How it can be improved

• Add customization of the widget so as we can design to our requirements
• Add Ajax kind of a window for a quick chat rather then a pop up
• Allow end user to add his Name at least and optional e-mail address
• If widgets owner is off line make it an off line leave message center

To get your badge for gTalk visit : Create Google Chat back Badge