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• Shortcut Screencast Contest: Open Google Reader links in one keystroke

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Clips, Google Reader, Keyboard Shortcuts, Screencasts, Shortcut Screencast Contest, Top, Video Demonstration

  the book. Last call for screencasts! Submit yours to the Shortcut Screencast Contest.

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• Shortcut Screencast Contest: Create an in-cell bar graph with Excel

  Published: July 26, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Clips, Excel, Microsoft Excel, Screencasts, Shortcut Screencast Contest, Spreadsheets, Top, Video Demonstration

  Reader Adam screencasts one of our best Microsoft Excel tips ever - how to make an instant, in-cell bar graph. Hit the play button above to see it in action. Nice job, Adam! You've won yourself an autographed copy of Lifehacker the book. Time's running out! Submit your last-minute 'cast to the Shortcut Screencast Contest.

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• Screencasts: Play the web with Songbird

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Digital Music, Downloads, Idolator, Media Players, Mp3, Music, Screencasts, Top, Video Demonstration

  Free Firefox-based media player Songbird makes playing local and online music a whole new experience. View web pages, play music linked on them and drag and drop the files to your own local library right in Songbird. We've mentioned Songbird before, but the screencast above demonstrates how cool the bird really is. If you're an MP3 blog lover,

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• TUAW Exclusive: Pixelmator in-depth screencast

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Editors, Images, Photos, Photoshop, Pixelmator, Screencasts

  Filed under: Software, Video Back in May we scored a short intro screencast of Pixelmator, an upcoming image editor that looks to give Photoshop a run for its money. Incorporating open source software and some of the great image tools that Apple provides to developers in Mac OS X, Pixelmator looks like it could very well bridge that massive

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• Pretty And Productive: Power Up Your Linux Desktop With Compiz Fusion

  Published: August 20, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Clips, Desktops, Downloads, Feature, Gui, Linux, Linux Tip, Pretty Productive, Productivity, Screencasts, Top, Video Demonstration, Virtual Desktops, Workflow

  Linux users: Not only can desktop decorator Compiz Fusion add eye candy to your system that leaves Windows and Mac users drooling on their keyboards, it can seriously boost your productivity. As Compiz Fusion creeps closer to its first official release, its effects are well ahead of anything found in commercial operating systems. Let's take a

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• Video Demonstration: Embed YouTube Clips in a PowerPoint Presentation

  Published: August 22, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: How To, Powerpoint, Screencasts, Top, Video Demonstration, Youtube

  Want to include a YouTube clip into your PowerPoint presentation that you'll be giving offline? Hit this nine-minute video to see how. Use the Video Downloader to save the clip to your hard drive and the free SUPER to convert it for use in PowerPoint. [via Daily Cup of Tech]

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• Preserving Evidence: 5 Tools to Make it Easy

  Published: September 11, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Products, Articles, Archiving, Clipmarks, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Debugmode, Furl, Looksmart, Plagiarism, Presevation, Screencasts, Screenshots, Stayboystay, Web Archive, Webcasts, Webshots, Webshots Pro, Wink

  also does a great job taking screencasts, which is why I am using it as my preferred application for the job. Copyright Issues As with any service or tool that enables you to copy and publish works owned by other people, there are obvious copyright concerns with these services, especially if the cache is made publicly available. The best thing

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• Touch Up Your Pics in Photoshop [Video Demonstration]

  Published: February 22, 2008, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Clips, Image Editing, Photoshop, Screencasts, Top, Video Demonstration

  Funny-man Photoshopper Donnie Hoyle introduces how to use two Photoshop tools—the spot healing brush tool and the patch tool—to touch up photos and smooth out features. Like the rest of the videos in this series, this one is probably best watched with headphones plugged in, but the tutorial (though a bit harsh) knows how to make

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• Record Free Screencasts with uTIPu [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: March 1, 2008, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Screencasting, Screencasts, Top, Video Demonstration, Windows

  Windows Only: Record free screencasts with the robust, freeware screen recording utility uTIPu. uTIPu includes the ability to both record audio and draw on your screencasts, and even has left and right click indicators to really help your viewer follow along. In addition, free accounts with 250 MB of storage are available for uploading and

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• Mac Desktop Music Video [Friday Fun]

  Published: May 16, 2008, 9:50 am

  Tags: Clips, Friday Fun, Screencasts

  We love screencasts because they can teach you how to get things done on your computer, but one creative filmmaker went beyond the howto and choreographed a full music video to Mac application actions. The result is the mesmerizing video above, which will hopefully add a little fun (if not productivity) to your Friday. To find out more about

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• Tag Galaxy Browses Flickr Photos in Space [Friday Fun]

  Published: May 23, 2008, 7:00 am

  Tags: Clips, Digital Photos, Flickr, Friday Fun, Screencasts

  New Flickr photo browser TagGalaxy explores the Flickr tag-o-verse using a planet metaphor. Type in a tag you're interested in, and TagGalaxy will instantly assemble a system of planets that represent those tags. Click on a planet to browse and zoom photos. Words don't do TagGalaxy's beautiful visualization justice, so check out the

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• Watch Firefox 3 in Action [Firefox 3]

  Published: June 17, 2008, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Firefox 3, Bookmarks, Firefox, In Brief, Screencast, Screencasts

  Mozilla user experience guru Mike Beltzner demonstrates some of Firefox 3's best features in this detailed screencast. [via]

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• Screencast - Setting up Unity Builds

  Published: June 19, 2008, 9:20 am

  Tags: Screencasts, Software Development, Tips Tricks, Screencast, Unity Build, Visual Studio

  It has taken me a bit longer than expected, but I’ve finally got the screencast up! That’s right folks, my angelic voice is now online for you all to experience. 8 minutes of Unity Build glory! Get it here: Setting up Unity Builds I made the screencast using the demo version of Camtasia (which I give a big thumbs up to!). It weighs

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• The HTML Helper Marks Up Your Comments [Featured Greasemonkey User Script]

  Published: July 1, 2008, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Featured Greasemonkey User Script, Clips, Downloads, Exclusive Lifehacker Download, Firefox, Greasemonkey, Screencasts, User Scripts

  Now that you know you can use HTML inside comments here at Lifehacker and other Gawker sites, a little help may be in order. If you're not used to writing HTML by hand, the Gawker Comments HTML Helper Greasemonkey user script will add handy links above the comment box. Use them to bold and italicize your text or add links around your words.

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