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ProfCast Reviewer’s Guide October 2006 COMPANY Name

Table of Contents Page 3 ProfCast Introduction Page 4 What’s new in ProfCast 2.0 Page 5 ProfCast in Education Page 9 What out customers say Page 10 Product Details

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ProfCast Makes Recording Lectures Easy!

ProfCast is an all-in-one presentation-to-podcast tool for the Mac that offers an integrated workflow for creating, recording, and publishing . It provides live presentation recording, synchronization of slides with audio, Keynote and PowerPoint support, RSS generation, and publishing support.

All elements of your presentation, including slide timings, bullet point builds and voice narration, are recorded. ProfCast allows you to record your presentation as you give it using either Apple's Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint! ProfCast also helps you publish your recorded presentation as an enhanced podcast. ProfCast is the perfect solution for educators and professionals looking to pro- vide more flexible, richer media to supplement traditional pedagogical tools such as books, course packs or notes.

Best of all, ProfCast integrates with the educator’s existing teaching process, and doesn’t require additional time to have full impact.

ProfCast Makes It Easy!

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ProfCast 2.0

ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording Key Features lectures and creating enhanced podcasts. ProfCast provides a low cost • Easy to Use! solution for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presen- • New Podcast Manager tations as podcasts. ProfCast offers an integrated workflow that makes • iTunes U Support creating, recording, and publishing podcasts easy. It's as simple as • ID3 Tag Support Launch, Load and Lecture! The • Creative Commons Licensing new release of ProfCast adds • Screen Shot several new features, interface • ProfCast Vault enhancements, integrated help • AppleScript Support along with plenty of additional • Records Lectures LIVE! improvements and bug fixes. • Creates enhanced podcasts! • Support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV ProfCast is the only application & .MAC that makes it easy to turn the • Export to GarageBand 3 lecture you are already giving • Publish with iWeb into an enhanced podcast. The • Uses slide titles as chapter titles result will be complete with Uses urls from presentations to slides, chapters, and audio, all • synchronized as you gave the create links in podcast. lecture live! ProfCast integrates • Audio play through support with your existing lecture soft- ware and your presentation workflow. With integrated help and support documen- tation, ProfCast 2.0 is easy to learn and use by the most inexperienced user. The program integrates with a lecturer's existing work flow, leverag- ing existing lecture software that the user is already familiar with.

PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS ProfCast integrates with GarageBand 3, for further editing, iWeb, for easy publication to your iWeb managed web site and , or publishing directly to your .Mac account. In addition, ProfCast supports publishing well formed, standard RSS feeds to your ftp or sftp server. By providing a variety of output options, ProfCast puts you in control of your content. After all, isn’t that what you deserve?

HUMBLE DAISY, INC 1342 Arella Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 www.profcast.com ProfCast in Education: Designed for Educators

Every year the demand for rich media to augment and Humble Daisy, the maker of ProfCast, is devoted to enhance the educational experience has grown. Stu- innovation and it's goal of empowering individuals to dents have come to expect richer, more flexible media be inspired, work and exceed their potential. We be- to supplement traditional pedagogical tools such as lieve that ProfCast integrates well with educator's ex- books, course packs and even notes. Podcasting, isting teaching process, and provides an intuitive, reli- especially, has emerged as the most apparent in- able and fun solution! Today's students see technol- stance of this trend, largely due to the openness of ogy, not as an isolated tool, but as a means of com- the podcast format which allows anyone to use mate- municating, collaborating, innovating and learning. rials distributed through podcasting.. ProfCast helps instructors contribute to this process easier than ever before. The addition of portable media such as podcasts may seem like a small addition to the pedagogical arsenal, "There are a lot of tools out there that are so poorly but it can have a significant impact. Similar to the designed, they make smart people feel stupid." said manner with which email and the internet have vastly David Chmura, president of Humble Daisy, Inc. "We reshaped the academic landscape over the last 20 wanted to build a tool that made smart people feel years, podcasting, or more likely, the podcasting brilliant! ProfCast is that tool!" paradigm has the potential to exert a similar influence. Until now, capturing lectures has been a difficult, time- Students love podcasting because it significantly low- consuming and costly process. ProfCast allows users ers the burden of acquiring content. Unfortunately the give lectures and presentations as they normally burden of creation is no lower than with other rich would: ProfCast does the work for them. ProfCast is media. ProfCast is designed specifically to lessen that designed specifically around a presenter's workflow. burden and make it easy for educators to provide en- Lecturers simply launch ProfCast, add the presenta- hanced podcasts to their students. tion that they want to deliver, and press the "Start Re- cording" button. They can then give their presentation the way they normally would. When they are finished with the presentation, they can simply end it, click the "Stop Recording" button, and click the "Publish". ProfCast provides an intuitive publishing assistant to help them publish their enhanced podcast in a mater of minutes.

ENHANCED PODCASTS

ProfCast creates 'enhanced podcasts'. Enhanced podcasts are audio files which contain chapter markers where you can include titles, images and web links. The images in these files can be viewed on an iPod with photo capabilities or video capabilities, through iTunes, QuickTime or even in embedded in a web page.

HUMBLE DAISY, INC 1342 Arella Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 www.profcast.com "I am a professor at [a university] in NYC and veloper myself, I'm still scratching my head over really LOVE this program - I have been doing all how you are able to get the PowerPoint screen- the things your software does manually in the last shots." semester and it has eaten up all my spare time. So this is a real life-saver.

This is a great, great software. I have published articles on podcasting in educational and other e- learning settings and do a lot with this in my work here at [a university] and in various conferences this year. Obviously this is an early version, but with so much great promise. I would love to pro- mote this software in my presentations about the use of podcasting in education. Thanks for some great code, here!"

"Any chance you will have a windows version of this software? Looks great - may go buy a Mac just for this : ) "

"Worked great!"

"I am very happy to let you know that we have just featured ProfCast on [our] . We have chosen your app from many other Mac products released these days, just because we like your idea very much."

"Wow, that was fast. Yes it is fixed now. I'm ex- ploring the app... Can we demonstrate this to customers?"

"Dood...sweet. Thanx."

"We are purchasing a Mac Book specifically to record and publish Powerpoint Lectures with Profcast.

"We were very impressed at how you took a complex set of tasks inherent in making a pod- cast and making it brain-dead simple. As a de-

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Availability and Pricing

ProfCast is available worldwide via download from www.profcast.com. ProfCast retails for $29.95. Volume discounts and Site Licenses are available upon request. Users can download a free trial of ProfCast from the ProfCast Web site at http://www.profcast.com/downloads/

ProfCast System Requirements

Operating Systems

• Mac OS X 10.4.x and later Minimum Hardware

• PowerPC G4 667MHz or greater or Intel DuoCore Mac • 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 512 MB RAM or greater) • 500 MB hard drive space OR

• Intel Macintosh • 256 MB RAM (Recommended: 512 MB RAM or greater) • 500 MB hard drive space Presentation Software

• Keynote 2.0 or later OR Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 or later. • WORKS WITH KEYNOTE 3.0! iLife Software

• Integration with GarageBand and iWeb requires iLife '06 or later.

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