Monthly Archives: November 2006

I work in the IT sector. My job involves support and consultancy for SAP. As such people often ask me computer-related tech-support questions in my private life. I also get asked questions by colleagues at work about their home computers. Naturally as part of my job I also get asked tech questions by people at work which relate to their work computers. Even though I don’t actually work in desktop support, people recognise when someone in the office is tech-savvy and they ask the geek questions.

I don’t mind this, it’s of course great to have ones talents recognised. I don’t actually work in tech-support as part of my job, so really it’s an aside to what I am getting paid to do. Helping to fix problems with colleagues desktops means they can potentially get on with their work and do their job better as a result, I figure a few minutes here and there to sort desktop problems isn’t overall a bad thing so long as it doesn’t adversely affect my ability to complete other tasks.

Edit: I have updated and moved this guide to here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/RecordingScreencasts.

I recently created a couple of screencasts for the Ubuntu-UK LoCo team, of which I am a member. I’ve been tinkering with screencasting for nearly a year now but only recently has everything come together in such a way that I find it easy to make the screencasts. I’ve been asked to write a guide showing how I created the screencasts at quickones, and here it is. Before I go into the detail there’s some technical things I should outline up front. Various tools and utilities have been suggested to me over the last year and I have discounted many of them for a number of reasons. Hopefully this will explain what those reasons are so that you can understand why I used the tools I did. In a previous blog post I talked about screencasting in general – part 2 of that article is in the works. This post is more technical, showing how to actually do it for real.