Software

Review: Default Folder X

I spent the last few days investigating several applications that I thought would improve my daily work flow. I have a very busy couple of months ahead and anything that makes my day to day activities less of a hassle is well worth investing in from my point of view. Enter Default Folder X, a fantastic user interface modification application from St Clair Software. Default Folder X is not really an application in it's own right, it's more of a modification to the way the Mac currently handles th...
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Cool Stuff 2009

As the end of the year draws in I thought it would be a good idea to look back and reflect on some of the things that interested me or that I enjoyed in the year gone by. It's been quite a difficult year for me personally with the loss of my Gran, and lots of work related issues, but at the same time there have been many enjoyable things in the year gone by. I have made some great new contacts through social media apps, established friendship with some great new people, developed the blog & ...
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Review: Shovebox

In my constant struggle to manage information and keep track of every day documents I discovered a great little application called Shovebox. Shovebox resides in your menu bar waiting to be called upon to store items that form part of your daily workflow. From URL's, text documents, notes, receipts, to-do's you can shove them in the little storage area to  process later. The application is very unobtrusive letting you get on with things as you work but if you get sent an interesting link via Twit...
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ScreenFlow 2.0 Competition!!

In conjunction with an upcoming e-learning event to be held on November 11th the very kind people at Telestream have provided me with a copy of ScreenFlow 2.0 to give away to one lucky winner. The competition is open to viewers of the blog, listeners of the podcast and to those attending the event on the 11th November. To have a chance of winning all you have to do is identify how you would use ScreenFlow in your daily work flow. All entries will be judged in terms of creativity and usefu...
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ScreenFlow 2.0 – Review

In the past few weeks I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to participate in the ScreenFlow 2.0 Beta. For those that are new to the blog and perhaps unfamiliar with ScreenFlow it is a screencasting development application for the Mac platform. I have been a user and admirer of the software for some time and use it extensively in my daily work flow as an academic, it provides what I consider the best screencasting development solution available and is pivotal in my development of e-lear...
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ProfCast

With my recent switch to the Mac platform came excitement, a sense of discovery and the challenge of finding new software solutions to cater for my daily work flow. For the most part it was fairly easy to discover equivalent or indeed better ways of doing things but in some cases I actually discovered completely new tools to aid in the development of learning materials. One such tool is ProfCast - a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording lectures including PowerPoint and/...
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Videocue Review

I have considered implementing a regular news based video podcast for a while now, not to replace the weekly GeekCaster podcast (which is currently on hiatus) but more to reflect on the day gone and give my take on what the daily news. There are a few productions that have inspired me to this concept, Webb Alert & The Morgan Minute both featuring the lovely Morgan Webb were long time favourites of mine and Cali Lewis does a fine job in condensing tech news down into daily segments on GeekBri...
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Screencasting & Screenflow Review

Screencasting is a relatively new concept born out of the new media phenomenon as society seeks for ever more efficient ways of communicating with one another. Essentially it refers to the practice whereby the contents of a computer screen is recorded and then distributed in an attempt to provide instruction, demonstration or discussion on a matter of interest. The distribution can take a variety of forms such as .flv or .mov and target a variety of devices such as an iPod or HD TV, but in each ...
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I Have A Forklift In My Dock!!

It's been quite a productive day, I finally managed to get my Twitter account sorted out and now actually have the people I want to follow on there. Still getting some spam requests coming through which is inevitable I guess, but I can deal with that. Twitterific is a great client, really like the interface and will probably upgrade to the full ad free version in the future. The whole new media thing is really amazing, a bit of an understatement I know but thinking about how it all comes togethe...
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