![]() I actually thought my days with LICEcap were over, but writing this post made me discover that a 64-bit version has been out since February 2018, so shame on me.ĭoing some minimal amounts of research for this post, I also discovered that LICEcap’s developer is Justin Frankel of Winamp fame. If I need more, that usually means that I should do the recording with something like ScreenFlow instead. ICEcap doesn’t have a bunch of options and settings. Not a lot of bells and whistles, but enough in most cases. Turns out, convenience trumps feature lists. LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance. Being able to quickly do the screen capture and have the GIF ready for sharing in the instant you stop the recording is really convenient. Using LICEcap to record some interesting free coding.īut the reason I’m always reaching for LICEcap when I need those moving pixels captured is that it records directly to the file. In fact, I used it to screen capture how LICEcap works. It does a lot more than LICEcap, and is even written in the world-eating JavaScript programming language. An obvious mention is Kap by these wonderful people. There are loads of cool screen capture to GIF tools out there. I know you should think twice before putting animated GIFs on your webpage (because they tend to be huge), but I sometimes make that sin too.d It can be to document some bug I found, show my colleagues at Sanity.io something cool, a clever tweet, or useful visual context when I’m helping other people out some project. ![]() Not a day goes by without me having to record something I do on the screen. Not being able to open my beloved LICEcap, prompted me to think of how much I actually use this app.īut this post isn’t about how Apple has lost its edge with its new perfect circular new campus, but about one of my favorite little apps, the GIF screen capture tool LICEcap. You know, like reliable keyboards and SD-card slots. Only to discover that the brilliant engineers of Palo Alto had decided that 32-bit apps weren’t in vogue anymore. ![]() After having nervously lingered in front of the unmoving progress bar of impending doom for two hours while the upgrade script made sure that all of my millions of node_modules files had the correct sandboxed permissions, I was finally let into my tool of digital self-expression again. really wanted me to upgrade to macOS Catalina, so I did. ![]()
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