The “Break it Down” Blog

Tracing JavaScript Engine Coming in Firefox 3 Could Give 20-40x Performance Boost in Some Scenarios

Ars has a piece up about the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine work that we will first see in Firefox 3.1 (currently in nightlies) but is the first part of major JavaScript work known as Tamarin that won’t be seen until Firefox 4.0. Apparently the Mozilla JavaScript engine is getting worked over from the ground up with an [...]

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Screenshot and Video Sharing Simple: Jing Project

Brian Fernandes sent along a link to a pretty kick ass project by the TechSmith guys (gurus behind SnagIt and Camtasia). The project is called Jing and is currently free in it’s “test me, I’m a project” stage before it becomes a commercial product from TechSmith. If you take a look at the software, the [...]

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Adobe Captivate Review and Screencasting Alternatives

Adobe Captivate (Buy $699, Upgrade $299) I met Captivate 3 years ago when it was RoboDemo 5. At that time I thought it was slick as hell to have a piece of software that would essentially capture your screen as screenshots as “slides”, and then capture any mouse or keyboard input as actions done during that [...]

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