WatchMe cuts user-training costs

by Lee Sherman

Bellingham, WA Ð With the shipment of WatchMe, screen-recording software for NEXTSTEP from Otherwise, seeing is truly believing.

By capturing all activity and sounds from a user's screen, WatchMe allows customer-training sites, educators, and presentation professionals to create demonstration or instructional tapes that can be stored on disk for later playback. Tapes can also include voice annotation.

Editing features in the package allow users to trim unwanted material, merge soundtracks from different recording sessions, add opening and closing screens, and combine tapes together into a single presentation.

According to Otherwise, the program can cut down on training costs by eliminating the need for training personnel. Tapes can be stored on a server or sent by e-mail and accessed by users as required.

WatchMe is available in a multiarchitecture version for $110. Users of Intel computers will need a sound card and microphone to add voice annotations to WatchMe tapes. Otherwise can be reached at 206/647-9435.