If you have not podcasted yet, forget it and got straight to Screencasting, which is making a video of your computer screen, with audio into a movie. This is VERY simply done for free at www.jingproject.com, you can make a movie up to 5 minutes and host it at screencast.com for free. 2G of storage per month and 2G of download space per month for free. As an example I put together a simple 3 mintue screen cast of how to run a ballistics program: http://screencast.com/t/NGC51UoF2Sg
The other thing I wanted to tell folks about is Adobe ConnectNow, which is a free screen sharing program for 3 people to collaborate.
So you could use this to fix mom's computer at home. Just login to your ConnectNow account, send her the URL in email, and have her connect to you. Change her to presenter, then you keep keyboard.
You can give presentations to 2 other people, pefect for helping folks out, and 0 cost. VoIP one way from presenter to 2 other people. Supports WebCams.
Chap
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Excellent Chap. I guess I'll have to give it a try.
Every time I think I'm starting to get a tiny handhold on communication technology it jumps ahead about three light-years (stillcan't program a DVD recorder ). Maybe the advances we've seen in our lifetime are the reason I'm so fond of dumping loose powder down a hollow tube and stuffing a lead ball in behind it.
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Video unfortunately takes bandwidth. Some of us lack bandwidth speed, so video while a great media can be a little overwhelming both in technology and resources.
But thanks for the site. I will look into that.
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Excellent Chap. I guess I'll have to give it a try.
Every time I think I'm starting to get a tiny handhold on communication technology it jumps ahead about three light-years (stillcan't program a DVD recorder ). Maybe the advances we've seen in our lifetime are the reason I'm so fond of dumping loose powder down a hollow tube and stuffing a lead ball in behind it.
My wife and kids do our DVD recording, never did it. I believe your on to something about shooting front stuffers. What I am showing people is simple to do. Chap
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Thanks Chap. I was trying to un-tech when I retired, now my son gave us a web cam and we now can see the grand kids via Gmail video for free. If you don't count the hi speed internet connection. Now to tackle
screen casting. Thanks again.
Regards,
Thanks Chap. I was trying to un-tech when I retired, now my son gave us a web cam and we now can see the grand kids via Gmail video for free. If you don't count the hi speed internet connection. Now to tackle
screen casting. Thanks again.
Regards,
Video unfortunately takes bandwidth. Some of us lack bandwidth speed, so video while a great media can be a little overwhelming both in technology and resources.
But thanks for the site. I will look into that.
Jing allows you to store your files locally also, so no bandwidth needed in that case. When you upload, it is done in the background, it is using bandwidth, but you can do something else like read email that you downloaded BEFORE you click the Share Button.
As for speeding up Internet Connections fom dial-up, you can now buy Air Card pretty cheap with a Cell Plan and get that to plug into your PC or laptop, another option to look into is Dish Networks offers plans for Internet with the TV service, it is not as fast a Verizon or CAble modem but it works. Another option is Skynetwork.com, google "Rural Internet Access" and review material for your area. I know of 4 or 5 people banding together to get a T1 Line at the top of a mountain, then doing line of site microwave from that tower to their home. now these guys were geeks in my church and worked at home, and I am sure the wrote it off, but none the less it can be done quite cheaply I might add. So basically you find 1 provider, a t1 line was like $500/mo, but shared between 5 families is only $100/mo. So there are options out there.
Chap
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Purcellville Va
http://www.the-gleasons.com
Couple of new things that will help the board
). Maybe the advances we've seen in our lifetime are the reason I'm so fond of dumping loose powder down a hollow tube and stuffing a lead ball in behind it.
