Capture a video of your PC screen and share it online using uTipu
Posted on January 8, 2008 at 7:15 am
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- How to reset or unfreeze an iPod Nano, iPod Touch, iPod Classic, or iPod Shuffle
- Capture a video of your PC screen and share it online using uTipu
- How to access blocked web sites from school, office, or work using JAP
- How to record yourself online using your PC’s webcam
- How to check all of your email accounts from Gmail
- How not to get caught downloading illegal MP3′s and music
Recently, I wrote about a Flixn, a cool web service that you can use to record a video of yourself while online, not need to upload a recorded video from your computer. Flixn was geared more towards people recording themselves using a webcam and then sharing it with friends and family.
uTipu is a cool website that allows you to record anything on your computer screen and share it with online for free. uTipu’s name stems from the fact that users can create tutorial videos for instructional purposes and share them with whoever wants to learn!
In order to use uTipu, you simply need to download their free TipCam software, which records videos of your screen and shares videos immediately (no post processing necessary).
Here are some of the basic features of uTipu and the TipCam software:
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Online-click record and one-click sharing of videos
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Recorded video is ready for review and sharing instantly
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One click for uploading or emailing the video
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Store your videos for private use or share them with friends, coworkers, or make them public
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Facebook integration – upload a video to Facebook immediately for sharing
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Videos are viewable by anyone, no need to download codecs
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Screen recording includes the ability to zoom with your cursor or fixed
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Free style hand drawing markup during recording
This software has a lot of cool features including the ability to zoom while recording, upload to Facebook instantly, and draw in free style during the recording.
You can use this for many different purposes, including the following below:
- Record and show how to change your MySpace layout
- Record a computer error that you have and post a question on Yahoo Answers
- Record and share an online game you are playing – Solitaire, Pinball, Sudoku, etc
- You can even record an online video from other video site or TV feed
- Record and email your comments to a document from a coworker
Once installed, you need to type in your account info in order to save videos online and if you have a sound card, you can choose to record audio for your recording.
On the Advanced tab, you can change the recording quality options, such as the frame rate and compression. Another really cool thing is that you can use uTipu to record screens from a remote computer using VNC. You can also choose whether you want to record the cursor while recording.
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Overall, it’s a very cool service and works beautifully! It makes recording your screen very easy and super easy to share it online. By default, uTipu gives you 250 MB of free online storage space.
Definitely give it a shot if you want to share something on your screen that requires a series of steps. Enjoy!
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13 Responses to “Capture a video of your PC screen and share it online using uTipu”
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The uTIPu Blog » Blog Archive » Service launch feedback Says:
[...] “Overall, it’s a very cool service and works beautifully! It makes recording your screen very easy and super easy to share it online. … Definitely give it a shot if you want to share something on your screen that requires a series of steps. Enjoy!” – Online-Tech-Tips.com [...]
January 24th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
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Oneeko - Super simple screen sharing and video conferencing Says:
[...] up window appears with the Oneeko user interface and now all you have to do is wait for the host to share their desktop screen! Since the programs works using Flash only, you can view someone else’s screen from a Linux, Mac, [...]
October 14th, 2008 at 5:28 am
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99 of the best Windows freeware programs you may not know of Says:
[...] 57. Everyone knows that FastStone can be used to capture screenshots of your desktop, but you can also check out Screenshot Captor, Screen Hunter, PicPick, and uTipu. [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:13 am
It doesnt work well in my college slow net speed.
Madhur,
I’m guessing this site will require a fast broadband connection since it interacts online and offline.
Pretty cool tool for people who cant afford camtasia kind of software. If you have a good speed this can really work like charm for normal people. Extremly useful
I can imagine using this to teach relatives how to do specific computer tasks. Nice find buddy.
I tried this. It was very easy to use and incredibly effective. Unlike other screen recording tools, it does not require post-recording video processing. As soon as you stop recording, you can view the recording or upload it right away. I can use it everyday. And all these are FREE? How do they make money?
BB, thanks man! Someone mentioned it in one of my comments! Sadly, he did not have a site or I would have linked to him.
Jay, I’m not sure. I think people end up liking it and might end up recording more than 250MB worth of videos. After that, I think you have to buy extra space.
This is an awesome tool; I have used Camtasia in the past for creating demos of new software products or member sites I am releasing, but this tool is so incredibly easy to use without sacraficing any features, that I am now using it over all others. Also, the ability to invite private viewings or publish publicly is very useful.
They give you 250 MBs for free, but they also offer a way to upload videos without using your own space. If you create a video and publish it publically (not just post it to your site) to the public area, it no longer counts against your space. You can upload and publish as much content as you like, you just don’t have the ability to edit or delete the content any longer. But if it’s a public video, who cares?
Bottom line is, this tool beats out all of it’s competitors on ease of use, features and costs (none)
Keep it up uTIPu.com and THANKS for a great product!
I installed with TipCam the suggested Mirage Mirror Driver,(despite warnings, but “it would be perfectly safe…”) now my screenresolution is locked to 800×600 with 32 colors and NVIDIA tells me “DEV Warning. You are using a downrev’d NVCpl.dll with nvCPlUI.exe” Can’t even load the NVIDIA control panel to fix the problem. Anybody a suggestion? I am using NVIDIA Geforce 7300 LE with Windows XP
Twanton, I also had problems with the Mirage mirror driver. It would not install on my XP Pro x64 system with the 7300 card, and it wouldn’t uninstall using the uninstall feature either, but left me in a sort of never-never land. Every time I rebooted the computer, it would think I had new “hardware,” the Mirage driver, to install — which would always fail to install, and canceling or clicking the box to stop notifying me did nothing. This would happen every time I rebooted or restarted the computer. Uninstalling it the usual way from the control panel didn’t remove it. I had to uninstall the driver manually:
Go to “My Computer,” right click, then select “Manage”
Select “Device Manager” in the Computer Management window
Open “Display Adapters” (if it isn’t already open), then select the evil Mirage driver, right click on it and delete it.
Hope that fixes your problem
The best site to create videos of your desktop and share it online is Screencast.com. They have 2 GB of free storage, so that’s good enough if you just want to share something with a friend real quick.