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Don’t you just hate those videos on YouTube with people recording their screens with their digital cameras? To solve that you need a program to record your screen. There are many solutions for Windows through which you can record your screen with, however out of all of them Camtasia Studio is the best. It’s made by a company called TechSmith and the program is currently in version 6. It simply allows you to record your screen, whether full screen or just a selected part of your screen. Along with that you can record audio from your microphone as well as video. You can manipulate your video anywhere in your screen cast along with 3d effects and reflections. This program also installs a plug in for Microsoft PowerPoint allowing you to record full length PowerPoint presentations along with video if you wish to do so. The best part is that not only is this a screen casting program, but at the same time it’s a whole video editor as well. Think of it as an advanced version of Movie Maker. For example Movie Maker does not have multiple audio layers, picture in picture, audio enhancements, 3d video effects and etc. It supports all of the major video formats such as mp4, mpeg, mov, and wmv. In terms of exporting you have many options from 320×240 all the way up to 1280×720 HD videos which is exactly the resolution YouTube needs for high definition. Download a free trial at the Camtasia Studio Website.

Microsoft has released the Release Candidate version of Windows 7. You can download it for free at the Windows 7 site. It’s receiving a huge buzz because you’re getting a Microsoft operating system for free, that’s good for one whole year! Also, Windows 7 is all about speed. While Vista couldn’t run on low powered computers such as net books, Windows 7 can easily run on older computers and net books. Almost everyone says that the operating system while still in release Candidate is still very stable and has great driver support as well. If you’re planning on replacing your current operating system, or installing it as a dual boot, you’ll need to burn the iso image to a DVD. I would recommend you try it out in a virtual machine. So go have a go at Windows 7!

With Windows Vista comes a suite of programs such as windows mail, calendar, photo gallery, and etc. However now there’s an updates version of all of these applications that is available to both Vista and XP users free of charge. http://download.live.com/ is where you will be able to find these applications. If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend you upgrade. These new applications are much more feature rich, have a cleaner user interface, and in some ways are just simply easier to use. I personally use most of the applications on an everyday basis. Windows Live Mail as my default mail client. Windows Live Photo Gallery for all of my photo organizing and viewing; I’ve switched from Picasa 3 to this application. I also use Windows Live Messenger, which is much better from the previous version of Live Messenger. Lastly, I use Windows Live Writer to write on this blog. This prevents me from going to the Word Press site every time I want to publish a new post.