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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.



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Jim

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 rate up rate down Reply
tom

Speaking 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!

January 24 2008 at 3:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian Sexton

This looks pretty nice—both for professional documentation and for helping out friends and family.

January 24 2008 at 1:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lynn Fredricks

Blue 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 rate up rate down Reply
jln

Thanks 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 rate up rate down Reply
Joe RIckerby

It's just a shame they can't document how to document with Screensteps using Screensteps

January 24 2008 at 10:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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greg.devore

Sorry if you couldn't find it but there is a full online manual all done in ScreenSteps here:
http://bmls.screenstepslive.com/classrooms/3

January 24 2008 at 10:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Bonthron

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!

January 24 2008 at 9:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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