There are two types of screen capture. Static – think screen shots, and Video – like in screen casts. Some tools can do both. In this post, we’re focusing on those that do video recording and I’ll also do my best to find some options for all your Mac users too.
Jing – works on both [...]

Sometimes when you decide to visit your own web site, you may find the dreaded “Site cannot be found” or it’s taking too long to respond. One of the first things you would do is probably to check your Internet connection, maybe even clear your browser cache and cookies, restart it to see if it’s [...]

Last week, I asked the question, how much time do you spend trying to solve a technical problem. This week, I’ll follow up with a few places and people whom you can go do to find that help after you’ve decided you have spent enough time on it.
Moi of course! I’m going for some shameless [...]

This is a week I am focused on expanding my fellow bloggers and guest authors’ posts here at Sparkplugging. Today, I read guest author’s reasons for redirecting her affiliate links. Those are the exact reasons I r
edirect mine too. If you don’t know why, read her post. Alice does give a simple way of making [...]

This is cool. Bubbleply is a site that allows you to add text, speech bubbles and ultimately, links into videos from the popular video web sites like Youtube. While this is made ‘for fun’, this could be a great tool for affiliates.
The process is easy. Just paste the video URL, add your text or speech [...]

I love to read. Every night, I read fiction to help me sleep and because I enjoy a good mystery. But I also am envious of my friends, peers and mentors who can read like 3 business books and a gazillion blogs a week. These people always seem so smart to me and they probably [...]

Some women like shoe shopping, my weakness (among many) is cool icons, shiny buttons and slick graphics that are so characteristic of the new and trendy web 2.0 styles. Alas! I am no designer. There is no design bone in me at all. Which is why I always jump with glee when I find cool [...]

WordPress… what can I say. I love you? Yes, it’s a great publishing platform that I sometimes wish I could run my whole business on it. Thankfully, there are always talented developers who think along the same lines. Sadly, there aren’t that many plugins for business applications and I’m not talking about just shopping carts [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know [...]

Not long ago, YouTube released annotations for their videos. I was all over it. The one thing about video that irks me is I don’t have the patience for it. I can watch an hour long TV show or a 90 minute movie but can’t sit through a 10 minute online video. It’s just me. [...]