Free Screen Capture Software for Cross-platform

Jing is a TechSmith Corporation's screen capture project for use on cross-platform, taking screenshots and making videos with sounds, which could be easily converted into png images for posting or as swf files for video playback. Jing is a free initiative, which intends to help people communciate more clearly and create engaging presentations for different audiences.

Jing allows users to save the recorded files to their desktops, and also for those who want to share their images or videos on Flickr or FTP to other servers, Jing can certainly accomplish that with a simple click.

A two-minute sample screencast of Jing can be viewed here: http://video.techsmith.com/jing/latest/demo/introvideo/index.html.

For download, please visit http://www.techsmith.com/download/default.asp

Animoto Makes Video Creation Easy

Animoto is a freeware which allows you to create your video with Hollywood video effect, accompanied with a music library for you to choose from. All you need to do is to upload your images. For movies longer than 30 seconds, you will need to buy a $30 All- Access Pass good for a year.

Take a look at this:

How to embed a Talking Picture - Powered by Snapvine.com

Instructions:

Snapvine Publisher API allows users to add voice and tell a story behind their photos. All you need is to get a free account on Snapvine and then add the auto-created JavaScript code to your site. Vistors to your site will see your image with a playbar below it to play the voice over. They can also click the Share button where they will copy the auto-generated code and paste them in their own social network like MySpace. All shared images have backlinks that can take users back to your site.

Beautiful

See more Talking Photos

How To Embed a Map to Your Blog?

View Larger Map

Isn't this cool? Just want to share with you that this is as easy as embedding a video from YouTube.

Instructions:

1. Simple login to Google.com and click Maps.


2. Search for directions or an address.


3. Click the 'Link to this page' on the right above the map.


4. You will then see the HTML to copy.


5. Then simply Paste into your blog using the HTML editor.

Happy Blogging!

How To Embed Quicktime Streaming Video to Your Blog?

It's been a nightmare for me trying to figure this out, but thanks to Helen Burgess's post I dawned on, which help relieve my lonely struggle. I am sure I am not the only one out there who's going through this same process. I hope this example will pass on as a reference for those who need it.

Here is an example of how to embed a Quicktime movie. My sample movie is on a Quicktime server, hinted using Sorenson Squueze at 320 x 256. (Remember to add 16 more pixels to the height for the controller if you want it to appear.)

----------------------------




--------------------
Instructions for code:

How To Embed Google Streaming Video to your blog

Source: Naruto Episode 155 (Japan. Japanese. English Sub)

Instructions finding the code shown above:

1. Login to Google Video
   
2. Click on the selected video (thumbnail view) to open video
3. Click the blue 'Email this video' button on the right column
   
4. Then click on the Embed HTML link
   
5. Copy and paste the HTML shown in the expanded text box to your blog
   

Embed YouTube Video to your webpage

Isn't she amazing?

Instructions finding the code shown above:

1. Login to YouTube
   


2. Click on the selected video (thumbnail view) to open video
   


3. Copy and paste the HTML shown in the EMBED text box on the right top column to your blog
   

Tips: If you Preview your blog, and you see some HTML code hanging around, return to the Edit HTML tab, and click once just before the code line below the video, and click Backspace on your keyboard.

How To Embed WMV Streaming Video to Your Blog

Blogger's help group has been a great resource for me while I am searching for answers to put streaming videos of different formats to my blog. Thanks to a blog member's (display name as panther) suggested sample code for embedding a wmv file, shown as below.

------------------------

Instructions for code: