In my irregular exploring of my gmail account I came across an article that mentioned Camstudio. I’ve used the software before but it had problems. However some clever soul has grabbed the source code and fixed the errors, fixed some of the problems and also added a redirect URL feature. It’s been released and a quick search with google will find it.

There are a few enterprising people who are reselling it for a few dollars here and there but if you are quick you can get it for free by signing up to Nicheaday

So just how useful is CamstudioIM?

Well it grabs the screen just fine. It converts over and works in Firefox and IE fine. Audio is good too.

The redirect function may not work if you run the local file because of your Flash plugin security settings. You can change these of course but I don’t recommend it. I couldn’t get it working properly at times but then you can always have a link afterwards on the page….

Of course if you want to embed it in your wordpress blog then you need to use a plugin if you want it to work properly. I found the kimili plugin worked fine but its not that well behaved in wp 2.1 in the editor.

So another useful tool to add to the kitbag.

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