Blog & Portfolio of Leland Fiegel

Your Own Personal Online Todo List

Some of you asked how I set up my todo list after I posted a screenshot of it a few days ago. I set it up from a freely available script I found on TutorialZine.com, from a tutorial called AJAX-ed Todo List With PHP, MySQL & jQuery.

In the following screencast tutorial, I’ll show you how to set it up on a cPanel host (I used HostGator):

• Set up a subdomain for your todo list page (optional, necessary in some cases)
• Password protect the directory your todo list is in (optional, highly recommended)
• Download the script from TutorialZine, extract the files, and upload them via FTP
• Set up a database, create a user, and add the user to the database
• Get the database connection details and put it in the connection file
• Import the database structure through PHPmyAdmin

Screencast is after the jump.

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Ideas for Premium Screenr Features

First off, let’s get this straight. I LOVE SCREENR, and I would probably pay for it if it wasn’t already free. It is one of my favorite Twitter apps. I used to use Camtasia for making screencasts, and while that’s probably better for more advanced screencasting techniques, I prefer to use Screenr now.

Why? Because most of my videos were less than five minutes anyway (Screenr’s time limit), I never used any of those previously-mentioned advanced screencast techniques available, and most importantly, it’s crazy-easy to use. Just record and upload, nothing too fancy. And it’s all web-based, no software to download.

At the present time, there are no paid options for Screenr. Everything is completely free, but there are some limits. It only makes sense to have some paid features/upgrades to remove these limits. Here are my ideas:

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