Archive for October 3rd, 2007

Screen Capture, Screencasting & Software Demo Tools

October 3rd, 2007 by Haiyan Zhou

See the listing of tools. Many of them are FREE. These tools can be used to capture screens, create screencasts or demonstrations (ie narrated recordings of a system’s screen output) and/or simulations which also include functionality to interact with the simulated system.

Microsoft Takes Office Online

October 3rd, 2007 by Haiyan Zhou

As we know Microsoft rival Google has its own Web-based office application known as Google Apps, users are now invited to pre-register for Office Live Workspace, which allows those with Microsoft Office to access their Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents online. The software giant is dubbing the offering an “online companion” to the Office product. More…

But there is a catch: Users will not to able to edit the documents they are viewing through a browser unless they have Office installed on their computer.

“You need Microsoft Office to edit Office documents, but if you do not have it installed you can view Office documents in a browser [both Internet Explorer and Firefox will be supported] and can comment on them,” a Microsoft spokeswoman told eWEEK Sept. 30.

Shakespeare online game development slows

October 3rd, 2007 by Lynne O'Brien

Arden: The World of William Shakespeare ended a year of development, but the multiplayer online world modeled on the settings and characters in Shakespeare’s plays is incomplete. The MacArthur Foundation provided $240,000 for the project, but as Edward Castronova, the professor at Indiana University who led the virtual environment project notes in his blog, “…this is very hard to do, and especially hard to do in an academic context. ” As for future development, Castronova writes, “The Bard has left the building for now, and his return date is unknown.”


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