I’m sure you’ve watched a screen cast before. It’s where someone records a video of their desktop to teach others how to do something in a specific program. In its infant stages it was a bit technical to get those screen casts published to the web. Now, even a child could do screen casts with Wink. Wink is a freeware software that allows you to capture your screen and your voice and export into flash video to display on the web. For the less web savvy, you can create a pdf of the frames you captured (beware of large file sizes).
This is a great tool if you are trying to explain something to someone who is not at your location. For web developers, you can create a help section for technical parts of your website to show users where to go and what to do. And yes, the greatest part of all of this is that it is free for the taking!
