ScreenSteps Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daily Mac App: Clarify

by Michael Rose (Oct 13th, 2011)

We're unabashed fans of the folks at Blue Mango Learning Systems; in fact, we did a video introduction to their flagship product, ScreenSteps, after we met with them at Macworld Expo 2008. ScreenSteps has saved countless hours of effort in quickly developing software documentation, but the Blue ...

ScreenSteps 2.8.7, documentation gets social

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 6th, 2010)

ScreenSteps, an app for creating screen-based documentation and a TUAW favorite, has just released a pretty big update and a brand-new social document service called ScreenSteps.me. The desktop update includes, among other improvements, a totally-rewritten screen capture tool that makes the ...

Blue Mango delivers rapidfire documentation for iPad apps

by Michael Rose (Apr 8th, 2010)

We admit it, we have a soft spot for ScreenSteps. Ever since we first met the Blue Mango team three Macworld Expos ago (at the urging of TUAW veteran Laurie Duncan), we've been big fans of their intuitive, cross-platform, and dependable little documentation system. It's not so little anymore, ...

ScreenSteps 2.7 preview and some Holiday savings

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 23rd, 2009)

We've mentioned ScreenSteps from Blue Mango Learning Systems before. A few times, actually. Version 2.7 is coming up quickly, and it's going to have some great new features. There's also a sale this week that I thought was worth mentioning, check the end of the post for details on that. First, a ...

ScreenSteps Pro adds video embedding and Pages/Word export

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 21st, 2009)

ScreenSteps 2.6 is out, and has added two very useful features: the ability to export to Microsoft Word or Pages, and the ability to embed videos into your documents for online publication. We've covered this screen-based documentation application since its initial release, and it continues to be a ...

ScreenSteps 2.5 takes screen-based documentation a step forward

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 27th, 2009)

ScreenSteps, the invaluable tool (mentioned here many a time) for writing software documentation quickly and easily, has updated to version 2.5. Among the new features is improved annotation capabilities, including a text tool and keyboard shortcuts for speedy duplication and repositioning of ...

ScreenSteps 2.1 released, interview with Blue Mango

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 27th, 2008)

Screensteps, the software documentation generator we've come to love, has reached an official 2.1 status and has been released into the wild. Well, as wild as software documentation gets, anyway. This gem is a TUAW favorite and I'm personally very psyched about the new upload-to-blog feature, which ...

ScreenSteps 2.1 beta: post lessons directly to your blog

by Brett Terpstra (May 5th, 2008)

When Blue Mango Learning Systems released version 2.0.3 of (TUAW favorite) ScreenSteps, its software for creating screen-based lessons, they added the option to output blog-friendly code for pasting into your own site. But some of us were inspired by the possibilities and cried for direct blog ...

ScreenSteps gets blog-friendly

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 20th, 2008)

We do love our ScreenSteps here at TUAW. Following up on some great features introduced in version 2, bluemango is releasing version 2.0.3 today with a brand new post-to-blog feature. The feature makes use of a Screensteps Live account to host images, then provides the HTML markup to paste into a ...

Show floor video: Screensteps makes documenting easier

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 24th, 2008)

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 ...

ScreenSteps

by Scott McNulty (Jan 16th, 2008)

The best part of Macworld, aside from the various TUAW groupies, is getting exposed to apps that I had no idea even existed. It is an even sweeter experience when the newly discovered app is actually useful to me. That's definitely the case with ScreenSteps. This little gem of an app makes creating ...