I ran into an issue last night while recording a screencast of Visual Studio 2010. Basically, Camtasia was not recording the menus when I selected them. You could see me move and click my cursor, but the pop-up menus were not being displayed.
Mike @ TechSmith support provided me with the solution:
In Camtasia Recorder:
- Select Effects, Options.
- Click the Cursor tab.
- Uncheck the box for Make cursor effects editable in Camtasia Studio.
- Click OK to save your options.
- Next, select Tools, Options.
- Click the General tab
- Make sure that Capture layered windows is checked.
- Click OK to save any changes.
That should take care of the problem.
Note: when you make this change, it “freezes� the cursor so you can’t use cursor effects inside of Camtasia Studio.
Also, we noticed that setting the Zoom feature of the editing window to 150% makes your code extremely readable on playback:
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I got this today:
Uh, what user?
I performed an interesting experiment last night that I thought you might enjoy.
Background
I have an Apple iPhone and of course have AT&T for phone service. For various reasons, I’ve actually always had AT&T for my phone service. And, I live about three miles from the North end of the Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport which also happens to be near a junction of three freeways.
This means that I can sometimes experience service interruptions based on time of day, traffic patterns, etc.
So when AT&T develops issues with their service I can pretty much tell if it’s situational ( localized ) or something else.
This the “something else� has been happening on their network this week. There have been times when their 3G network has simply disappeared. It has happened so frequently that I have been turning OFF 3G at my house and reverting back to Edge just so my phone will operate. This is not normal behavior, even for AT&T.
As always, I thought it was just me and I tweeted a couple of complaints about it. Then last night @tekoppele mentioned service coverage in San Francisco was really bad this week.
Hmm. That is odd. Dallas and San Francisco are half a continent away. That caused me to wonder if maybe there wasn’t a system-wide issue affecting the AT&T 3G network.
Research
So, I decided to see what other Tweeple were saying and ventured out to http://search.twitter.com and searched for “AT&T service�.
What I found was very interesting:
- They were indeed having system-wide network issues.
I saw issues from Dallas, San Francisco, and Denver, just to name a few. - They are also having issues with their Internet service.
- The number of tweets about bad service far exceeded the number of good tweets.
- AT&T actually has people monitoring the Twitterverse and is handling a number of complains via Twitter.
Note: @davidyack mentioned this last year in regards to Saturn ( car company ) responding to a tweet about a car he no longer had.
Conclusion
I actually used a search engine to plug into the collective conscience of the Twitterverse for the purposes of researching an issue that I was having just to verify that I wasn’t the only one.
I really don’t keep up with third-party Twitter services and applications so there are probably companies producing solutions to help companies mine this type of data for whatever purposes they wish.
If not, then someone needs to make one. I can see several possibilities where “trend-spotting� can be useful.
General
- http://futurity.org/ Futurity aggregates the very best research news from leading research universities in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. [ source: Fast Company Magazine ]
- http://www.data.gov/ U.S. Government public data source repository.
iPhone/iPad Development
Yesterday Microsoft announced a solution for non-profits that includes special pricing and customizations to help get non-profits up and running quickly.
The customizations include the following features:
- Donation and pledge management
- Basic membership management
- Basic volunteer tracking
- Campaign management
- Excel dashboard reports
- Payment solution for online donations
Unfortunately, at this point it looks like the solution is for CRM Online only due to the fact that CRM Online has a feature called “Visualizations,� which are charts, and CRM OnPremise does not. Since the customizations were created and exported from CRM Online, they will not import into CRM OnPremise.
As a curiosity this morning, I created a test organization and tried importing the customizations (found below) but the CRM OnPremise thought the customization file was invalid because of the extra visualization elements.
Links of Interest
- Original ZDNet article by Mary Jo Foley
- Microsoft Press Release
- Signing up for a Non-Profit CRM Online account
- Documentation, customizations, and other information
Here are some things I found interesting while surfing the web this week:
( In no particular order )
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