- Occasionally jumping in processor usage to 100% (and effectively freezing)
- Crashing
Ultra basic screencasting
Essentially user configured super-basic spyware, the program can also be used to save images as you work for writing usage cases or testing so you can go backward through your steps. A huge space savings versus
Good
- Only program of its kind that I can find
- Small, easy to use, simple
- Will save screen captures up to one second apart. Awesome.
Recommendations for use
At startup, change the following options
- If saving to removable media (flash drives), you should use high compression to reduce the writes to your drive (and extend its life)
- Check "Delete duplicates" to avoid having the drive fill up with the same exact picture
- Check "Display the tray icon" unless you want to spy on someone
Bad
- No pause button in the user tray icon. Its either on and capturing images or shut off in the system tray.
- Won't let you save to anything but JPG, which is not ideal for screen capture. Should also offer the ability to a low-color PNG file, which would be much smaller and not have the same "artifacts" that JPG files get.
- No help file to explain the settings. I have no idea what "control the actual user session" means.
- No version number unless you start program, enable tray icon, right click on tray icon, and finally select "about". Annoying.
- Creates an "update" folder in the program root directory for no apparent reason.
- As spyware its complete crap. Even a fairly novice user could do a ctrl+alt+delete and see they don't want to have a program like "autoscreencap" running. Would need to set the program up as admin and restrict user access to prevent it from being disabled.
Download:
Version: 1.05b
Size: 4.4 megs
RAM Usage: 6 megs
License: Freeware
Score: 1 out of 10 - needs some work to get it out of beta.
In Kitchen Sink Collection: No
Size: 4.4 megs
RAM Usage: 6 megs
License: Freeware
Score: 1 out of 10 - needs some work to get it out of beta.
In Kitchen Sink Collection: No
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