This is just a quick post to mention a great little piece of free software which is available to those who need an alternative to  downloading  tutorials  etc. and how to record video tutorials  free.

Since the advent of online affiliate marketing and  fast internet connections, particularly those with unlimited data transfer became available a few years ago, places like Utube and social media sites like Twitter etc. have become a haven for those who are either looking for short videos or need somewhere to expose a video to the world.

Internet Marketers have jumped on these sites as a means to expose their product to the world for free and have experienced great success in doing so. However, while these methods are great for both the video maker and the “hungry for knowledge internet marketing newbie”……. they are only great if the user has an unlimited data transfer or a very cheap Internet Service Provider.  Quite often video tutorial don’t allow for downloading or provide a method  to record video tutorials free of charge.

While many tutorial sites do provide such videos free of charge, more often than not, the videos can’t be downloaded to a hard drive meaning that in order to watch them over and over which is often necessary, the need to do so means either leaving the tab open which is also impractical in many cases, or re-loading from the net every time the video is required.

For me and many other folk out there, the above options are not available because I live in a region of Australia where the only 2 forms of internet connections  available are dial up and satellite.

Obviously as an internet marketer, the former would make it impossible to operate and the latter being limited to a pre-determined amount of monthly data transfer, makes it impractical to be streaming or watching tutorial videos as they load because it obviously gobbles up the data transfer limit pretty quickly.

Of course there are many reasons why people would like to copy or record these videos. To be able to watch them offline of course, immediately springs to mind but unless they can be downloaded and saved, that’s impossible….or is it?

Recently I came across a piece of software which allows the user to record a video while watching it and then save it to a place of choice on their hard drive. While it does require the sacrifice of disc space, this is reduced somewhat by the audio within the video being automatically compressed so as to save space.

A hint in using it is to start the video and “pause it” and then let it run for the first few minutes before taking it back to beginning before hitting the record button. In that way if you are on a slow connection or if it’s streaming, you won’t get any breaks or pauses in the video which will use more of your disc space.

If you want to know more or get a Free Download for this great little piece of software  go here

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Over the past few weeks since I set out on this venture which is ultimately to learn how to be a baby boomer internet marketer, I’ve come across quite a few unexpected hurdles. When I use the word ‘unexpected’, I do so with tongue in cheek because I knew from the onset that there would be hurdles. However I hadn’t realized that some of these hurdles would take so much time to clear.

I think I mentioned in an earlier post that so many of the free tutorials available on the net through places like U-Tube etc, are often out of date soon after they come online because the software they refer to is being constantly updated.

Such is the case with blogging. I think I also mentioned that in building this blog, I’m using wordpress which is a prime example of software being constantly updated.

As a baby boomer with no experience whatsoever with computers until well into my 50’s, getting my head around even the simplest of concepts was initially (and please excuse the pun), a real headache. I didn’t know for example that when a computer is shut down, it should always be done from the start menu, and not just by pulling the plug or using the on/off switch. It’s the simple things like that which kids have been learning at school for the past 20 years that makes new technology for some baby boomers so difficult to grasp. Read the rest of this entry