Category Archives: Screencasts

Screencast: Changing Your Site Layout and Theme in OpenScholar

This screen­cast will dis­cuss the dif­fer­ence between the Open­Scholar Site Lay­out and a Theme in the Con­trol Panel. It will also demon­strate how to change the two in OpenScholar.

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Screencast: Finding Creative Commons Licensed Photos on Flickr

This screen­cast demon­strates how to find pho­tos on Flickr using the Cre­ative Com­mons fil­ter in the Advanced Search set­tings on Flickr. The down­load of a photo from Flickr will also be demonstrated.

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Screencast: RSS feeds in Google Reader and related clients with John LeMasney

In this screen­cast, John LeMas­ney explains how to use Google Reader, an RSS (Really Sim­ple Syn­di­ca­tion) feed reader, to col­lect, curate, and fil­ter all of the con­tent from your favorite aca­d­e­mic sources. Using Google Reader as the engine, John also … Con­tinue read­ing

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Screencast: How to Set Up a Batch Process To OCR PDFs in Acrobat X

This screen­cast will show you how to use Acro­bat Pro X to cre­ate a batch process to OCR text and save in a dif­fer­ent text for­mat to edit. The Action wiz­ard is demonstrated.

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Screencast: Finding and using images with non-restrictive licensing.

This screen­cast will show you how to find free images on the web that are okay to use under Cre­ative Com­mons licens­ing. We’ll explore what Cre­ative Com­mons (CC) is, what each CC license means, how the image can be used … Con­tinue read­ing

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