Problem: You are working in an Internet cafe where you don’t have permission to install new software on the computer so how do you capture a video of your desktop screen activity?
Enter ScreenToaster, it’s a free web based screencasting tool that requires no installation and can record a movie of your full desktop screen (or just a rectangular portion) in few clicks.
Screen Toaster is a screen recorder cum screencast hosting service – when you are done recording, the video is uploaded online automatically and becomes immediately available for sharing via email or for embedding on other sites.
And since Screen Toaster is written as Java web applet, it will work on pretty much every OS including Windows, Mac and Linux machines that have the Java runtime. Thanks Florence Meichel.
Screencast-o-matic is another similar online screencasting app but what you may like more about Screen Toaster is that it renders videos as streaming Flash so it becomes easy to embed screencasts in web pages vis-a-vis Java embeds.
The downside – Screen Toaster doesn’t record audio and there’s no option to export output videos as QuickTime movies – these facilities are available in Screencast-o-Matic!
Screen Toaster is currently in invite-only mode but you can get one quickly by supplying your email address.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/record-video-of-desktop-screen-online/4980/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
A very similar tool is Jing (http://www.jingproject.com/) from TechSmith, which I’m sure you’ve heard of. These are the folks that make the commercial apps Snagit and Camtasia.
The difference is that Jing is a download, and is probably Windows only. However, I believe it records audio.
Written by Neal Dench on 10.16.08
More information about Screentoaster. Screentoaster will soon have more features in a few weeks : the possiblity to add subtitles, an access to shared screencasts. And the sound, which will be implemented very soon !
Written by given on 10.16.08
Been using it since 2 weeks. Love it, works on all platforms supporting java.
Written by Prashant on 10.16.08
I have been looking for an online screen recorder for a long time. Most screen recorder applications are based on the local software. This could be a breakthrough.
Written by Times on 10.17.08
Thank you. Very nice. But JAVA? Anyone knows a non java-based solution?
Written by Marco on 10.17.08
I have been using windows encoder for quite sometime. This one is quite good.
Written by Neeta on 10.18.08
Fantastic online service. I have been looking for such service for a long time.
Thanks Amit.
Written by Vijay on 10.19.08
I try to create my screen shot but i cannot create account in ScreenToaster how to create account in ScreenToaster please explain
Written by Litto on 10.19.08