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On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:23 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.

The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

Great app. I use it at work to produce training videos. Using a headset with a mic to record my voice, I capture my PC's display while talking through PP slides, web configuration pages, and operating our product. Then I output them in mp4 format to put on our internal document portal and our customer support web page.

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On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 7:49:06 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:57:49 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:



Hmmmm. Just about everyone I know who uses Win 7 says it is a

significant improvement over "Vista."



Vista sucked, I think that was a pretty well known thing. It was so

bad that Microsoft offered an "upgrade to a more familiar interface"

AKA rolling back to XP for anyone who bought it.

Hey that's not a bad idea. My wife just bought a new Mac and is willing to give me her vista machine to take to work (as if I'd really need it) BUT. going to XP wouldn't bee bad at all.

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On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 7:27:31 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 19:15:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim

wrote:



On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 7:49:06 AM UTC-7, wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:57:49 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:







Hmmmm. Just about everyone I know who uses Win 7 says it is a



significant improvement over "Vista."







Vista sucked, I think that was a pretty well known thing. It was so



bad that Microsoft offered an "upgrade to a more familiar interface"



AKA rolling back to XP for anyone who bought it.



Hey that's not a bad idea. My wife just bought a new Mac and is willing to give me her vista machine to take to work (as if I'd really need it) BUT. going to XP wouldn't bee bad at all.



I doubt the XP offer still exists from MS but they have seemed to back

off of the hardware matching they used to do to authorize an

installation.

The question is whether they would authorize it at all after next

week. I doubt they want to be sued so I bet it is going to be a free

for all. You just need a valid 25 digit code.

Well, even if not, I'd probably be ok with it. I have dinked around with her computer before, and for the hit 'n'miss skidding around i do I got along with it fine.

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On 4/2/2014 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:23 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.

The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

Great app. I use it at work to produce training videos. Using a headset with a mic to record my voice, I capture my PC's display while talking through PP slides, web configuration pages, and operating our product. Then I output them in mp4 format to put on our internal document portal and our customer support web page.

If that is all you are doing, my grand daughter does that in Movie
Maker and exports in WMV.



Not all Mac users can view wmv files. I think that's why YouTube
converts any file format that you upload to Flash.

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On 4/3/2014 3:37 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/2/2014 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:23 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.

The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

Great app. I use it at work to produce training videos. Using a
headset with a mic to record my voice, I capture my PC's display
while talking through PP slides, web configuration pages, and
operating our product. Then I output them in mp4 format to put on
our internal document portal and our customer support web page.

If that is all you are doing, my grand daughter does that in Movie
Maker and exports in WMV.



Not all Mac users can view wmv files. I think that's why YouTube
converts any file format that you upload to Flash.


Catering to those damn Apple Facebookers again. Sheeesh.

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On 4/3/14, 12:16 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 03:37:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/2/2014 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:23 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.

The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

Great app. I use it at work to produce training videos. Using a headset with a mic to record my voice, I capture my PC's display while talking through PP slides, web configuration pages, and operating our product. Then I output them in mp4 format to put on our internal document portal and our customer support web page.

If that is all you are doing, my grand daughter does that in Movie
Maker and exports in WMV.



Not all Mac users can view wmv files. I think that's why YouTube
converts any file format that you upload to Flash.


I bet Harry's Apple plays WMVs. There is nothing it can't do.

BTW I thought Apple didn't like Flash either. Is that just the mobile
devices?



VLC plays *.WMV files just fine on a Mac. I don't what else on a Mac
will play them. I had to do a file search to see if I even had a *.WMV
file. I found two. When I clicked on one, VLC popped up and played it.

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On 4/3/14, 12:56 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:24:20 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/3/14, 12:16 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 03:37:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/2/2014 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:23 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.

The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

Great app. I use it at work to produce training videos. Using a headset with a mic to record my voice, I capture my PC's display while talking through PP slides, web configuration pages, and operating our product. Then I output them in mp4 format to put on our internal document portal and our customer support web page.

If that is all you are doing, my grand daughter does that in Movie
Maker and exports in WMV.



Not all Mac users can view wmv files. I think that's why YouTube
converts any file format that you upload to Flash.


I bet Harry's Apple plays WMVs. There is nothing it can't do.

BTW I thought Apple didn't like Flash either. Is that just the mobile
devices?



VLC plays *.WMV files just fine on a Mac. I don't what else on a Mac
will play them. I had to do a file search to see if I even had a *.WMV
file. I found two. When I clicked on one, VLC popped up and played it.


As I said earlier, VLC plays damned near anything.

Being open source, I suppose there is a version that will run on
anything. I know it is OK on /95 and Linux. Now I know it also runs on
Apple.



Apparently there's another way, too:

" Microsoft does not have a plan to upgrade windows media player 9,
however, Microsoft did offer an alternative for Mac users: Windows Media
Components for QuickTime Flip4Mac, which is developed by Telestream.
This player supports high-definition playback. With this QuickTime
component, you can play both WMV and WMA files directly using QuickTime
Player and watch streamed WMV videos. Also, is a great player for WMV
videos on Mac OS X version 10.4 or later."

I don't use QuickTime, but I presume this solution also works.

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On 4/3/2014 12:16 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 03:37:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/2/2014 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:23 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.

The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

Great app. I use it at work to produce training videos. Using a headset with a mic to record my voice, I capture my PC's display while talking through PP slides, web configuration pages, and operating our product. Then I output them in mp4 format to put on our internal document portal and our customer support web page.

If that is all you are doing, my grand daughter does that in Movie
Maker and exports in WMV.



Not all Mac users can view wmv files. I think that's why YouTube
converts any file format that you upload to Flash.


I bet Harry's Apple plays WMVs. There is nothing it can't do.

BTW I thought Apple didn't like Flash either. Is that just the mobile
devices?



My iMac and iPad play anything on Youtube and other video presentations
on the web just fine. So does my wife's iPhone.

If you right click on any of them I think you will find that they are
presented in "Adobe Flash Player". I've uploaded over 150 videos to
YouTube, some in .wmv, some in .avi and some in .mp4. When you play
them they are all presented in Flash Player.

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On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:02:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 4/3/2014 12:16 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 03:37:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/2/2014 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:23 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.

The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

Great app. I use it at work to produce training videos. Using a headset with a mic to record my voice, I capture my PC's display while talking through PP slides, web configuration pages, and operating our product. Then I output them in mp4 format to put on our internal document portal and our customer support web page.

If that is all you are doing, my grand daughter does that in Movie
Maker and exports in WMV.



Not all Mac users can view wmv files. I think that's why YouTube
converts any file format that you upload to Flash.


I bet Harry's Apple plays WMVs. There is nothing it can't do.

BTW I thought Apple didn't like Flash either. Is that just the mobile
devices?



My iMac and iPad play anything on Youtube and other video presentations
on the web just fine. So does my wife's iPhone.

If you right click on any of them I think you will find that they are
presented in "Adobe Flash Player". I've uploaded over 150 videos to
YouTube, some in .wmv, some in .avi and some in .mp4. When you play
them they are all presented in Flash Player.


I call misnomer. Anyone who's uploaded over 150 videos to YouTube isn't qualified to be called Mr.
Luddite.

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On 4/3/2014 3:05 PM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:02:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 4/3/2014 12:16 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 03:37:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/2/2014 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:23 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.

The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

Great app. I use it at work to produce training videos. Using a headset with a mic to record my voice, I capture my PC's display while talking through PP slides, web configuration pages, and operating our product. Then I output them in mp4 format to put on our internal document portal and our customer support web page.

If that is all you are doing, my grand daughter does that in Movie
Maker and exports in WMV.



Not all Mac users can view wmv files. I think that's why YouTube
converts any file format that you upload to Flash.


I bet Harry's Apple plays WMVs. There is nothing it can't do.

BTW I thought Apple didn't like Flash either. Is that just the mobile
devices?



My iMac and iPad play anything on Youtube and other video presentations
on the web just fine. So does my wife's iPhone.

If you right click on any of them I think you will find that they are
presented in "Adobe Flash Player". I've uploaded over 150 videos to
YouTube, some in .wmv, some in .avi and some in .mp4. When you play
them they are all presented in Flash Player.


I call misnomer. Anyone who's uploaded over 150 videos to YouTube isn't qualified to be called Mr.
Luddite.



:-) Most of them are music videos of the Bob Dylan wannabies who
sing and howl at the Open Mics we've had over the years.