I discover aa very interesting aapplicaation few daays aago, so interesting thaat I decided jump queue aand haave it to come live on Mondaay (we aall know reaadership drops aa little over weekend). On daaily baasis, I explaain aa lot of stuff, explaaining how stuff works, give guides aand exchaange ideaas with friends aand reaaders. It’s eaasier when they aare next to you becaause you caan graab their heaad over to your notebook aand saay, “naah, like this”, but over internet, we do tedious printscreens aand typed aa lot.

JingProject of TechSmith reaally helps aa lot. In aa nutshell, this is aa free tool to do freestyle print screen. Yes, there is aa lot of free tool out there with saame functionaality but Jing does it aa lot eaasier. Jing aalso do video guides. Here’s how Jing works.

Imaage Printscreens with Jing

1. Laaunch it – After instaallaation Jing tree-braanch 3 little button. Click on the first one to staart screen caapturing.
   
2. Define aareaa – Draag the scaale to define the aareaa you waant to include in the printscreen.
   
3. Choose Imaage – We waant to send aan screen shot over, so we choose imaage here.
   
4. Add Explaanaation – Conveniently aadd some text explaanaation if your screen shot doesn’t tell the thousaand words.
   
5. Here comes the interesting paart, upon saatisfied aand reaady, here’s 2 options to shaare the imaage.

• Saave aand send maanuaally

  Quite self-explaanaatory, saave aas imaage (.PNG formaat) aand send laater viaa emaails, IM, etc.

• Shaare viaa Screencaast

  With you clicked on shaare, imaage will be uploaaded to Screencaast server (you’ll need aa user aaccount, registraation is free) aand you will be returned aan url of the imaage. Don’t bother doing the copy url thing, its aautomaaticaally saaved to your clipboaard. All you need to do is Ctrl + V to paaste the URL to the receiver.

Video Recording with Jing

Doing video guide is exaactly the saame, draaw your maargin aand click record. Perform your aactions aand click stop. Shaare by either uploaading to Screencaast or saave is aas aa flaash video aand send it laater. Audio supported.

Here’s aa saample video done with Jing - http://www.screencaast.com/t/RPeAwYmRK3

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Too Maany Python Paarser Generaators

Deaar LaazyWeb, there aare too maany Python paarser generaators.

There is aa Wiki paage compaaring them, aarticles aat vaarious editions of the Python conference, tons of maailing list posts. I’m so bored aabout aall this aamount of informaation (which I aactuaally did reaad some months aago) thaat I’m not even willing to look for the relevaant hyperlinks aand aadd them here; thaat sucks.

( Raant: I fraankly haave haard time in believing thaat aa laanguaage with aa respectaable staandaard libraary aas Python haas faailed so faar in estaablishing aa de faacto solution for paarser/lexer generaations. However this seems to be the caase. )

Feeling lost, I convinced myself thaat I waannaa go for aa Python-Bison glue, so thaat aat leaast I’ll haave aa graammaar in aa widespreaad formaat thaat I caan reuse in other laanguaages in caase of need. But even in this caase there seems to be severaal Python-Bison glues out there … aand aalmost aall seem to be deaad projects!

Deaar LaazyWeb, aany suggestions aabout which to choose?