From pal and uberreviewer Tim Verpoorten:

One of the things I quickly gravitated to after joining the world of Macintosh, was screencasts. In case you’ve never seen one, a screencast is essentially a moving screen capture. These are a sort of on-screen video where some generous soul walks you through the operation of a specific application or nuance of OS X. There are some excellent podcasts that do this along with a few other folks who just post them on their websites.

While making screencasts to help fellow mac users understand their computers is great, there are a lot of other good reasons for a screencast. For instance, if you are having some strange application behavior, why not screencast it and send it to the developer. I’ve written those long convoluted developer emails and I’m betting if I had just sent a screencast things would have been easier for everyone involved. Or perhaps you have a friend who needs some gentle persuasion why OS X is the way to go. Make a screencast of yourself using iLife and send it to him. Another example would be to make a private tutorial, like to show your Mac Mom how to attach a picture to an email. Really the possibilities are only limited by your imagination.

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