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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After 18 weeks of beta testing Hulu today announced that they are now open for all, no need for invites, all you need is to sign up to Hulu and start enjoying the videos. In post made on there blog :

” In these short 18 weeks since we began private beta testing, we’ve been working hard to kick the tires and check under the hood in preparation of opening the doors to our site. With well over 10,000 pieces of user feedback, we’ve heard your suggestions, comments, criticisms and praise. Today we are excited to leave our private beta and open Hulu.com to everyone in the U.S.. Our streaming video service is free – anyone in the U.S. with a broadband internet connection and a computer can just press play to enjoy. “

Initially i launched Ideas2o two weeks back using drupal, custom designed the drupal theme added modules and launched the site online. But to my continuous effort drupal didn’t perform the way i wanted. The load time for the site was way beyond my quality control, the 404 error pages kept on showing with little or no traffic on the site and some how it didn’t run as stable as i predicted. No doubt drupal is a very strong and very powerful system but it has its flaws.

• It loads too many modules thus increasing the load time of the site
• The system is quite complicated and takes too much time to make it perfect.
• Some modules work with some version while other don’t
• Modules in drupal some times conflict with each others like Drivers in Windows
• The system is packed with jquery so prototype and other JavaScript libraries don’t work.
• Image handling in blog is horrible and you have to use modules which requires further time and are not as perfect as you require
• There is no editor in drupal so for that you have to go for another module and it ads further complications.

So after fighting with these complications i had no other option but to close it down and shift back to good old WordPress, and the lesson learned always use a CMS that fits best on your requirements. Drupal is a social network system which is its core functionality and my requirement was to set up a blogging system where i can share knowledge and write on the topic that are interesting and exciting. So for that wordpress is the best solution, its easy, its fast and its reliable.

Next > Re-Design and Improvement on the theme .