Over at Digital Inspiration, Amit Agarwal points out a great deal on the popular Windows screenshot tool SnagIt. TechSmith is currently offering version 7.2 for free download as a promotional deal intended to attract users to the latest version (which is 8.2 as of this post).
So if you don’t need all the bells & whistles the later versions include and are just looking for a screenshot workhorse to take you beyond ALT+PRINT (and don’t already own a copy of HyperSnap or a similar tool), follow Amit’s instructions for a free SnagIt license.
If you’re interested in screencasting tools for full motion recording, there’s a similar deal on Camtasia Studio.
For Mac OS X, check out Snapz Pro X, which does both still images and full motion capture.
At the tekom conference in Wiesbaden this week, English-language presentations were featured prominently in the OASIS and tcworld tracks as the organization strives to build an international reputation for itself and attract a more cosmopolitan crowd.
But despite the laudable efforts in worldliness, English text on the tekom website and even the tagline reveal a decidedly German bias that will be very difficult to shake.
It’s odd that an organization that ostensibly caters to translators and the localization business (among others) should have such difficulty producing readable English or recognizing that German orthography seldom applies to other languages.
In fact, the recent English-language publication offering (also known as tcworld) regularly sports an English that is positively painful to the native reader and can often only be understood if you also speak German, evoking memories of the classic Otto Waalkes parody English for Runaways. Admittedly amusing, but hardly intentional…