Software : Round up: The best free screen recorder 2016

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Round up: The best free screen recorder 2016 Posted: Record games and tutorials Fancy becoming the next PewDiePie, showing other people how to play big name games on YouTube? Would you like to make demos to show off your apps, or to teach others how to use specific software? Then you need a screen recorder. The simplest screen recorders record what you do as you do it, but many offer editing, additional audio, picture in picture and on-screen drawing. These are our favorites. 1. CamStudio A free, open source recorder more flexible than many paid-for tools Many free screen recorders are very limited in what they do, because they're intended as adverts for paid-for products. Not CamStudio. This open source software is completely free to download and use for whatever purpose you see fit. The app is designed to record in AVI format, which you can also convert to Flash video, and you can adjust the video quality and choose between capturing the entire screen or just part of it. The app also offers picture-in-picture video and anti-aliased captions. This flexibility and absence of watermarks or time restrictions makes it our number one choice for recording what's happening on your screen. Read on for four more of our top picks. 2. FRAPS A good choice for gamers, but the free version is limited Designed specifically for recording games, FRAPS is free to use if you don't need your clips to be longer than 30 seconds. That's not enough for a Minecraft tutorial, of course, but it's fine for shorter clips - and with a maximum possible resolution of 7,680 x 4,800 it's capable of recording even the most cutting-edge graphics. The software's developers recommend using Windows Live Movie Maker to convert your clips into web-friendly formats, which is an extra step we'd rather avoid. 3. ezvid Record, annotate and upload directly to YouTube The marketing is a bit excitable - it compares ezvid's feature list to expensive paid-for packages without mentioning that free apps such as Windows Live Movie Maker boast the same editing options - but if you're looking for a straightforward screen recorder then ezvid is very easy to use. It enables you to edit your recordings, add slides, change the speed and upload directly to YouTube, and you can draw on screen or turn typed text into spoken audio. It's particularly popular with Minecraft players. 4. Rylstim Screen Recorder Not one for gamers, but ideal for software tutorials Screen recording doesn't get much simpler than this: launch Rylstim Screen Recorder, click 'Start record', and press F9 when you're done. It's not one for would-be games vloggers - there's no support for sound recording - and it doesn't include any editing tools, but there's a good range of export formats and you can always add audio later in another free app. Rylstim Screen Recorder is ad-funded, but the advertisements are just small ones at the bottom of the options window. 5. TinyTake Quick and simple to use, but lacking some advanced options TinyTake makes some big promises: not only is it free, it claims to be the best of its breed. It enables you to capture the whole screen or just a region for up to 120 minutes, to annotate the video and to share the results online - provided you have a MangoApps account. It's a well crafted app, but it's best suited to educational and business use where the lack of export options isn't an issue.

Google Allo's incognito mode is like a more secure Snapchat Posted: Google incoming Allo app could be more interesting and feature-packed than we originally thought, as its new Incognito Mode seems to be borrowing a few things from Snapchat. We'd already heard that Allo had an Incognito Mode, complete with end-to-end encryption and expiring messages, but now we've learned a few more things about it, such as how those disappearing messages will work. According to Android Police, which obtained information based on a test preview version of Allo, there'll be a timer at the top right corner of each Incognito chat, set to 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, or off, and each message sent in the chat will disappear after that amount of time. The duration of the timer can be changed at any point by any of the chat participants, but changes won't apply to old messages, so if a message has already been sent with a 1 week expiry time then changing the timer to 1 minute won't make it disappear any faster. Sounds familiar The feature sounds a bit like Snapchat, especially as images can be sent as well as text or voice messages, though the timer on Allo can be set to a lot longer than on Snapchat. But the implementation in Allo is also a bit different and potentially slightly clunky, as there's apparently no indicator of how long any specific message will take to expire, and no guarantee that it will be seen before it disappears. Of course this is just a preview version of Allo, so there's a chance the app will be changed and improved before launch, but even with those issues Incognito Mode sounds like it could be useful, and it certainly seems to take security more seriously than Snapchat. For one thing you can't take screenshots of Incognito chats and there are various other security-conscious features, with the conversation list and notifications keeping the content of messages private. Whether Allo will rival Snapchat for popularity remains to be seen, but with it set to launch later this summer we should find out soon. Google's also been busy launching Android Nougat

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