Show floor video: Screensteps makes documenting easier
Do you make documentation? Do you constantly find yourself having to explain step-by-step procedures to do things on the Mac? BlueMango Learning Systems has been doing this stuff for a while, and the tedium eventually drove them to create their own tool to make things faster. That's innovation for you-- if you can't find a tool, build one (that's how Plasq wound up creating Skitch). Screensteps is truly handy for anyone needing to illustrate steps, like bloggers doing how-to's, all the way up to professional manual-makers. Scott got a quick demo on an excursion to Moscone West. Video after the jump.Share
Categories
Do you make documentation? Do you constantly find yourself having to explain step-by-step procedures to do things on the Mac? BlueMango...
Add a Comment
Yup! This is a winner! I bought it just over a month ago through a Windows site. The beauty is that one license can be used on both a Mac and a Windows system. You don't need to get two licenses.
January 24 2008 at 10:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySpeaking as an educator who does staff workshops in computer applications, I have just one thing to say: Holy crap this looks awesome! I cannot express how much time and annoyance it takes to do this sort of thing in Word, with the flipping of the applications and the resizing and the "no I want a floating image" and the pain, pain, pain.
Thank you TUAW!
This looks pretty niceâboth for professional documentation and for helping out friends and family.
January 24 2008 at 1:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBlue Mango is a long time cross-platform supplier of cross-platform solutions - and they do cross-platform right. This product is worth checking out since you'll reduce your hassle in supporting multiple operating systems and still get a real Mac OS X product.
January 24 2008 at 12:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThanks so much for pointing to this app ! It looks really nice and I am really excited about it. Now I can totally succumb to my love in making tutorials.
January 24 2008 at 10:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt's just a shame they can't document how to document with Screensteps using Screensteps
January 24 2008 at 10:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySorry if you couldn't find it but there is a full online manual all done in ScreenSteps here:
http://bmls.screenstepslive.com/classrooms/3
Downloaded the demo last week to try out. It's pretty basic app but I was able to easily do up a professional looking step-by-step how to in about 4 minutes. The old way with InDesing or Word would have taken me 20 to 25 minutes.
I bought it!
Hot Apps on TUAW
Deals of the Day
more deals- Refurb Apple MacBook Air Laptops: 12" 64GB SSD for $699 + free shipping
- JVC Motion Sensing Clock Radio with Dual iPod Docks for $55 + free shipping
- Apple iPhone Headset with Mic for $4 + $2 s&h
- miFrame Picture Frame Dock for iPad for $64 + $8 s&h
- Refurb Apple iPod nano 8GB MP3 Player for $99 + free shipping, 16GB for $119
- Hannspree Apple-Shaped 28" 1080p LCD HDTV for $270 + free shipping
Software Updates
more updates- EFI Firmware Update brings Lion Internet Recovery to 2010-model Macs
- OS X Lion 10.7.3 released with Safari 5.1.3, Wi-Fi bug fix
- Aperture updated to 3.2.2, addresses Photo Stream issue
- Apple updates Keynote to address Lion issues
- Google Search app gets new look on iPad
- Apple releases Apple TV Software Update 4.4.3



8 Comments