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Another tip that can save viewers (or readers) a lot of frustration - if your screencast (or blog) is specific to a particular technology, mention (or write) th
by Jedd 11y ago
Another tip that can save viewers (or readers) a lot of frustration - if your screencast (or blog) is specific to a particular technology, mention (or write) that at the outset.
Interestingly the page doesn't contain the string 'apple' or 'osx'. Some of the generic suggestions, early on, are almost platform agnostic, but by mid-way through we're clearly in the realm of OS and application features, and keyboard shortcuts, specific to one particular vendor.
- ttscoff 11y agoFor the record (from the author), 98% of my traffic is from Mac users, so I don't usually specify. I do, however, state in the second paragraph that it's very specific to ScreenFlow.
- Jedd 11y agoThanks. I was not intending to sound overly snarky. I think perhaps only people outside a circle notice the assumptions made by people within it. For example, it's usually easy to identify material written by people in the USA - they're more likely to assume their readers are within the USA. People in South America, Europe, and Asia seem to assume their readers could be anywhere. Similarly with tech, though I think we all assume everyone knows what we're talking about, no matter where they are. : ) I had no idea what ScreenFlow is, other than a camelcased bonding of two common words. Yes, you may say, I could have looked at that link, find that it takes me to iTunes, and then intuit we're talking OSX ... but a) I was on mobile so it wasn't a simple hover, b) as you note it's an en passant reference in the second paragraph. EDIT: Oh, and c) the page title is 'Tips for Screencasting'
- ttscoff 11y agoFair enough :).