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Aug 11 2006 - UPDATE
THIS TUTORIAL IS NOT COMPLETE.
It was published by accident via technotati scanning the site.
But for some reason http://screencasting.de has linked to this howto and is driving a fair bit of traffic here. So somebody is finding it useful.

Over the past few months I keep seeing tutorials and howto's on varying tech subject distributed via screencasts. If done properly I think screencats are very useful. On the other hand I have seen a few that were toture to watch. With broad-band, cheap memory and cheap storage it seems that 'casting is the next small big thing. I also could have missed the boat and 'casting could be like so last month.

Anyway after doing some reasearch into the subject of 'casting on Linux I found Wink, Tutorial and Presentation creation software. Wink is Freeware (not OSS), cross-platform (it has a Windows Client as well), it has audio recording, it outputs to Flash and Standalone EXE and a few other formats, and it entirly GUI driven.

Installing Wink
First download Wink.

Then extract the tar file:

This will extract 2 files in your home directory: installersh and installdata.tar.gz
The install:
(This will prompty you for a directory to install to.)

Wink does not add its' self to the Application menu or create any short-cuts so you'll have to do that by hand. I have added a quick note on how to do so at the end of this tutorial.

To test wink out you need to launch it from a terminal:

If all goes well you should the Wink app will launch.

Add a Shortcut
To add a Wink to the Application menu do this: Application -> Accessiores-> Alacart

This will open Alacart Menu Editor.

Then File-> New Item

A dialog box will pop-up where you will enter:

Name: Wink
Comment: Wink Screencapture
Command: /home/username/wink/wink
Icon: Select whatever you like.