Recording Google Reader with Wink

I recorded a movie with the free Wink screen recorder. The movie shows how i'm using Google Reader to quickly scan through new blog posts. At that day, there were 28 new posts and nothing which interested me specially except two pages which I opened in separate tabs to read later. I wanted to give Bernd an opportunity to see how Google Reader works and how fast (or slow) blog posts can be viewed to find interesting stuff.

Wink is a cool tool. It records mouse movements separately, so they can be repositioned and adjusted later on.

Quick facts about the movie:

• 33521kb for a paletted movie (3427 frames with 15 fps)


• 811kb for mouse movements (i found this size by exporting a movie in 'palette' mode without adding a palette. The file played back, but all I could see was the mouse)


• The raw source file (Wink project file) is 574427kb large


• It took Wink 4 minutes to render the movie as SWF movie


• It took Wink 8 minutes to calculate the histogram for the palette


• 2kb for HTML and JavaScript


• Wink only used 1 of 4 CPU cores for the job and used more than 700MB of memory.

Wink is an alternative to commercial tools like TechSmith Snagit/Camtasia or their free Jing recorder.

See the whole movie in large. Attention: even more boring than the smaller version below.

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