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How to create and distribute lovely screencasts

March 28th, 2008

For a while I have been meaning to start posting screencasts of some of my work to spread the word, and to explain some of the details that are difficult to describe in text.

After much tinkering, I think that I have arrived at a nice setup and have found a good way to distribute the screencasts, making them available to stream over the web or to download for consumption in your own sweet time.

In this post, I’ll share my findings so that you can set yourself up with a similar environment. I use a Mac, and so these tips are leveled squarely at the Mac users out there. Sorry to everyone else, but I’m just writing about what I know.

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Opening a Finder window from the Terminal

November 14th, 2007

I stumbled upon a simple method for opening a Finder window at your current Terminal session location recently. Since it is something that I have a regular need for, I thought that there might be other Mac users out there who might also find this useful from time to time.

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