We all know that your presentation shouldn’t all be all about how many animations and effects you can cram into your PowerPoint slides. Yet, your presentation slides should look professional for your business credibility. However, spending an inordinate amount of time creating something special is not a realistic approach. Using some professionally produced tools, themes [...]
Photosynth is an impressive software application developed by Microsoft Live Labs. It takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a three-dimensional framework. The software is in effect discovering hyperlinks between images based on unique features within them. Photosynth enables users to: Walk [...]
According to John Sweller, of the University of New South Wales School of Education, we are being taught the wrong way as teaching methods do not take into account the way in which we think and learn. The basis for John Sweller’s assertion is his Cognitive Load Theory which was the subject of a recent, [...]
Have we stepped closer to a world where you can open any office document with a number of competing software applications without encountering any annoying compatibility problems? A step closer maybe but, we are not there yet. Microsoft has announced the Open XML Translator project to be located on Sourceforge which will create tools to [...]
Impress is the multimedia presentation program, similar to Microsoft PowerPoint, part of the free Open Office suite by OpenOffice.org. Open Office also contains; Writer (word processor), Calc (spreadsheet), Draw (graphics creation) and Base (Databases). Open Office was developed by Sun Microsystems and has the same base code as its complimentary office suite – Star Office [...]
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