Creating Tutorials in a Wink of an Eye
November 28th, 2007
A tutorial is an integral part of any new application, as it familiarizes your users on how to use them. However, tutorial-making software usually costs money, forcing developers to create bland tutorials instead. If you want a powerful, easy to use tutorial maker that will cost you nothing, then Wink might just be the thing for you.
Wink is a freeware application developed to create highly effective tutorials. It provides an easy to understand system to capture screenshots, create textboxes, and even log in mouse movements and keyboard inputs to let users really see how to use a certain application. Want to provide a clip of you keying in characters? With Wink, all it takes are two keys pressed together and you can record whatever you key in. After capturing the screenshots and the needed clips for your tutorial, editing them is just a drag-and-drop affair. Wink also offers audio recording to add voice narrations to your tutorials. Once done with the tutorial, Wink can export your file to popular formats such as SWF and EXE. This guarantees that your tutorial can be viewed in virtually any environment. With Wink, making tutorials for your applications has never been easier.
Wink is a cross-platform application that runs on Windows and some Linux systems.