Technology is .wnk

I'm using WINK (freeware screencasting app) to record mini-tutorials for training purposes.* It's pretty easy to use and the results -- Flash format, fairly compact -- are good, but is there anything better?

Requirements:
- recording screen activity and mouse/key clicks
- annotation
- voiceover
- logical paths through multiple possibilities (there is a better way of phrasing this but cannot think of it)
- multichoice
- scoring, e.g. for a quiz: how many times did they pick the right answer?

It is rather unfortunate that the file extension for the intermediate stage is .WNK. Is there something they're trying to tell me?






*actually, I'm spamming LJ and vaguely tidying up. But in principle I'm werking. Honest

further to my plaintive cry for help re dodgy external drives ...

Apparently the way to check external dri
Originally uploaded by tamaranth

... apparently the way to force file check and recovery is to let the external drive completely b0rk windoze. Then let it chug merrily through its 65K sectors, finding many of 'em unreadable. Then let it attempt to fix the problems.

You are unlikely to retrieve a single file in return for hours of watching very slow progress. But you will have the satisfaction of knowing that Windoze tried really hard to get things back.

The next person who tries to tell me that external drives are a good thing and a suitable backup medium will be bashed with one of my new external-drive-shaped paperweights, and treated to an exhaustive catalogue of what I think is on them.

Tesco 100-CD-Rom-for-£4.99, here I come.

Cat vs. Water Feature

OMG WTF!
Originally uploaded by tamaranth

Cat 0, Water Feature 1.

soulstar, could you tell Ali that my cats are yellow-bellied cowards when it comes to innovation? Though they may eventually cotton on, especially if I forget to fill their water bowl ...