With  ScreenToaster everything becomes more simple and available for everyone:

• Connect to the ScreenToaster home page
• Click on the Start Recording button
• Press ALT+S to start recording the screen output
  
• Then, press ALT+S again to stop recording

After visualizing the video draft you can add comments in audio using the microphone or subtitles, and save the screencast in the users’ area by clicking on Publish it. The embedding code to insert the video on your blog will be available. It’s almost immediate.

This way you avoid installing softwares on your PC, generating huge typical screencast session files, editing them and uploading them online.

Quality is what surprises most. In this kind of filming, quality is really essential for the users to visualize important details such as the cursor, the text, the interface elements like the buttons, menu, etc. ScreenToaster, besides making it more simple, guarantees remarkable quality.

Here’s a screencast developed at the time this article was being written, check it out:

This is a project by Iteria SARL, a French start-up capable of this huge step after getting financing from an angel investor in September/08. It had financed the prototype itself before that.

ScreenToaster, a great service!

Compatible Files

You can upload the following types of documents:

• Word (.doc)
• PDF (.pdf)
• text (.txt)
• PowerPoint (.ppt)
• Excel (.xls)
• Postscript (.ps)
• LIT (.lit)

Once your documents are in the shared online library users can:

1. Embed your document into their web pages using a simple HTML code
2. Download the document in PDF, Word, Ascii or MP3 format (if there’s an audio track available)
3. Perform search into shared library using tags and keywords

It’s a kind of…. social sharing

Scribd can be considered a kind of YouTube for Office Automation due to Social Networking features embedded in the system like buzzing and comments. Popular documents are listed into the above-the-fold area on the right.

If you are not interested in files sharing you can anyway use scribd like an online file converter disabling the “share” flag of each file.

Here it are others interesting features;

• Discover related documents to your own with special algorithm
• Upload multiple files at once (Bulk upload)
• Make some money when a user make a hard print copy of your document

Subscription is free and space is unlimited!