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uTIPu: Another free screencast recorder

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FreeScreenCast isn't the only game in town when it comes to easy to use free software for recording action on your Windows desktop. Like FreeScreenCast, uTipu is a free Windows app that lets you record videos and upload them to a web server. You can either send links to your videos to friends or use the embed code to post the videos on your own web site.

The screencast recorder is fairly basic. There are no advanced editing features, so if you're not happy with your voice track, or if you want to redo the beginning or end of a video you're going to have to redo the whole thing. But you can hit pause while you're making a recording to collect your thoughts before continuing.

Unlike FreeScreenCast, uTipu allows users to save files to their desktop as Flash videos. So if you have a video editor that can handle Flash videos, you can make edits using a third party application. You also have much more control over your settings with uTipu than FreeScreenCast. You can adjust your bit rate and choose your zoom level, which will let you do things like capture your fullscreen desktop while compressing the video to 640 x 480 pixels. You can also zoom in on just the area of the screen you want to focus on.

You can find a sample video we uploaded after the jump. Yes, we know it's too large to properly fit on our website, but if you alter the embed code trying to shrink the video you just wind up awkwardly cropping the video

Update: Oleg from uTIPu contacted us to show us how to shrink a video by adding "overstretch=fit"to the embed code. He also tells us there will be an updated version of the client with some additional features coming out soon.

[via WebWare]

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Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Web services, Freeware, web 2.0

FreeScreenCast offers free screencast recording

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If you're looking for a cheap and easy way to record screencasts and post them to your blog or other website, it doesn't get much cheaper or easier than FreeScreenCast. There are two parts to FreeScreenCast: a dekstop recording application for Windows and a web site where you can upload and share your screencasts.

The ScreenCast Recorder application is incredibly easy to use. The image above shows pretty much all of your options. You can change the screen area to record, but you can't change your file types, frame rates, or anything else.

When you're done you can save your files, but good luck figuring out where they're stored. That's because the utility hides them away as TMP files in your local settings folder. The easiest way to find a video is to click the preview button and examine the file properties in your media player of choice. If you want to edit your videos, that's pretty much what you'll have to do. But once you've edited your videos, you probably won't be able to upload them to the FreeScreenCast web site because you need to use the ScreenCast Recorder to upload your files.

While FreeScreenCast's recorder lacks some of the features you'll find in programs like CamStudio, Camtasia, or Jing, the audio and video quality is significantly better than what you'll get using an online tool like Screencast-o-matic.

Once your files are uploaded to the FreeScreenCast site you can share the link or embed the videos in your website. Check out a quick sample we put together after the jump.

Update: FreeScreenCast's Jason Askew tells us that a future release may include the ability to export WMV files.

[via MakeUseOf]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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