Most of us know and love the screenshot feature in Mac OS X. It’s been around since at least System 7: press Command-Shift-3 and a picture of your screen lands as a file on your desktop. Screenshots are useful for so many things, and I have to be diligent about cleaning them up a few times a week.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard introduced native screen recording technology. Nestled in QuickTime Player’s (version 10) File menu is “New Screen Recording.” This is by far the best way to document procedures and teach new things to other computer users.
I’ve found myself posting screen recordings, which have my voice, to our Mac OS X Server-powered wiki at Small Dog. We use custom-designed accounting software based on 4D, and teaching employees new and more efficient ways to use it can be difficult.
It’s just one more reason to upgrade to 10.6!