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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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Chris said 9:18AM on 1-24-2008
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!
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Joe Rickerby said 10:19AM on 1-24-2008
It's just a shame they can't document how to document with Screensteps using Screensteps
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greg.devore said 10:47AM on 1-24-2008
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
jln said 10:26AM on 1-24-2008
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.
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Lynn Fredricks said 12:13PM on 1-24-2008
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.
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Brian Sexton said 1:14PM on 1-24-2008
This looks pretty nice—both for professional documentation and for helping out friends and family.
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Tom said 5:19PM on 1-24-2008
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!
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Jim said 11:12PM on 1-24-2008
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.
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