A lot of times tech bloggers need to review a software or write a tech tutorial where they need to take a lot of screen shots, then edit them, watermark them. We all know how cumbersome it can be. Well, Windows 7 will help you create such posts with ease & in probably less than half the time. Though it has it’s drawbacks. So what’s this magic tool in Windows 7 you ask?
It’s the known – Problem Steps Recorder! Yes. Say you want to write a tutorial on how to multiply 0 with 0, all you need to do is:
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Start PSR
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Open Calculator & perform the calculation.
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Save the recorder’s output & extract the MHTML file.
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Open it in MS Word 2007.
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Remove the unwanted text
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Copy-paste the rest in Windows Live Writer.
- Format the article as wanted.
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Change the image URLs to “Source picture”.
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Give the title, tags, categories, excerpt etc.
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Publish.
That’s it! You get screen shots with highlights of where you clicked!
Don’t believe me, here is a blog post I created out of a PSR file uploaded by Long Zheng on his blog. Hope he won’t mind. The draw back of this method from what i see is that there will be some extra code which you could’ve done without & formatting might be a bit tricky in some cases.