Screencast-o-matic.com - Browser Based Screencasts

With Screencast-o-matic users can make recordings of their computer screens (or screencasts) from within their web browser, without having to download or install any software. It does require Java, as Screen-o-matic creates the recordings via a Java applet. All results can be hosted on site for free, or they can be exported to Quicktime. Additionally, being Java based, Screen-o-matic works across platforms, with slight problems with the Linux/Firefox 2.0 combination. To use it, all you"ve got to do is move the display frame over the window to be captured; mouse movements are tracked with a red dot; to record just hit the record button. It"s incredibly easy to use, however at the moment, there aren"t many extra features, and the results aren"t the most astonishing.

Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!

There are other screen casting apps out there, however Screencast-o-matic is absolutely free, and it"s all browser based, so you needn"t install a thing. What"s more, Screencast can be used by any casual internet user; there are no technical skills required.

Screen-o-matic is rather limited in terms of what it can do; image and sound quality are definitely lacking; there"s no means to export screencasts or to embed them on Youtube et. al.