{"id":189,"date":"2011-03-25T18:17:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T01:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=189"},"modified":"2011-03-25T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T01:22:24","slug":"capturing-activity-on-a-mac-screen-ishowyou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Capturing activity on a Mac screen: iShowYou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shinywhitebox.com\/home\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">iShowYou<\/a>, a satisfyingly easy-to-use tool for capturing activity (including sound) on a Mac screen.\u00a0 Captures are generated in movie (QuickTime) format.\u00a0 I can see this tool being extremely useful for projects in which you need to record chat or user activity.<\/p>\n<p>iShowYou would also be valuable for recording visual instructions for colleagues.\u00a0 Imagine, for example, you wanted to train someone in how to use an online research tool, but couldn\u2019t meet face-to-face.\u00a0 You could record your own use of the tool, complete with verbal instructions, and send the recording to them.<\/p>\n<p>iShowYou is very inexpensive \u2013 only USD $20 for the basic version, and is very user friendly.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t used it very much yet but so far I like it very much.<\/p>\n<p>Other tools for capturing on-screen activity are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FRAPS<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/camtasia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Camtasia<\/a>. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t used either of these. \u00a0If you have, please feel free to share your opinion on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just discovered iShowYou, a satisfyingly easy-to-use tool for capturing activity (including sound) on a Mac screen.\u00a0 Captures are generated in movie (QuickTime) format.\u00a0 I can see this tool being extremely useful for projects in which you need to record chat or user activity. iShowYou would also be valuable for recording visual instructions for colleagues.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}