{"id":1064,"date":"2009-02-13T23:20:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beingmanan.com\/wp\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-02-15T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T04:42:08","slug":"windows-7-blessing-in-disguise-for-tech-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2009\/02\/windows-7-blessing-in-disguise-for-tech-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7: Blessing In-Disguise For Tech Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s drawbacks. So what\u2019s this magic tool in Windows 7 you ask?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the known \u2013 Problem Steps Recorder! Yes. Say you want to write a tutorial on how to multiply 0 with 0, all you need to do is:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n
    Start PSR<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n
    Open Calculator & perform the calculation.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n
    Save the recorder\u2019s output & extract the MHTML file.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n
    Open it in MS Word 2007.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n
    Remove the unwanted text<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  6. \n
    Copy-paste the rest in Windows Live Writer.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  7. Format the article as wanted.<\/li>\n
  8. \n
    Change the image URLs to \u201cSource picture\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  9. \n
    Give the title, tags, categories, excerpt etc.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  10. \n
    Publish.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That\u2019s it! You get screen shots with highlights of where you clicked!<\/p>\n

    Don\u2019t believe me, here is a blog post I created<\/a> out of a PSR file uploaded by Long Zheng on his blog<\/a>. Hope he won\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Windows 7 is 1 of the best things to happen to a tech blogger! Problem Steps Recorder can be used to take screen shots & write tutorials 7 reviews easily.<\/p>\n

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