It's not often you find a new service that is as good as this. DemoGirl as she is infamoulsly becoming known online has been quietly building a database of screencast demos of interesting applications that she finds. She is actually providing 2 stunning services. 1) namely she scourers the internet looking for the latest hot applications 2) she works out what its got that's interesting and then she goes to the trouble of making a screencast / instruction tutorial for the company!

For the applications she finds interesting she is providing the service as a gesture of good will... and thats just nuts.

These screencasts are worth a small fortune and clearly she has been practicing because they are increasingly becoming more professional. I'm pretty sure any CEO would be more than happy to pay for this service and it's actually a serious failing on those companies that have online applications but do not have such a demo to explain the nuts and bolts of their idiosyncrasies.

I'm sure that many of the sites she is featuring and providing this service too free are extreemly greatful for her candid time and effort. In a fairer world she would be compensated handsomely for her efforts. I would only hope that the companies she has featured thus far actually make some gesture of good will in return (I know I certainly would).

If you want to save yourself a load of time figuring out how to use the latest and increasingly complicated online applications, get yourself over to her little paradise sharp and see if she has done a demo for it, and if your very lucky sit back and relax for a little tutorial saving yourself a few hours of fiddling in the dark.

If this is not enough also has a blog where she posts online demos that companies have made themselves. One that I have found to be extremely interesting is a new company called where users can sign up and make a little slide show with audio narration. It's an extremely well thought out service that achieves a very complicated task. Here is their demo.