30-Dec-09 |
SlideShare
allows you to share a Powerpoint presentation
with someone who doesn't have the program, or
who would rather not have such a large file
emailed to them. Once uploaded (which doesn't
require opening an account), you send your
recipients a web address, where visitors can
flip through the slides in a scaled-down view,
or in full screen mode as they would in
PowerPoint. Alternatively, you can embed the
presentation within your own website.
For new presentations, or the ability to edit online,
consider
Google Docs Presentation module.
(Macworld) | Cost: |
Requires: Powerpoint or compatible software
| For further info...
29-Dec-09 |
Hailed by its inventor,
Ray Kurzweil, as the future of
e-publishing,
Blio is a new
software platform specifically for e-books
designed to run on any computing device, which
unlike current e-book readers, replicates the
appearance of the pages of original printed book
as is, including colour and typography (unlike
the E-Ink technology behind most ebook readers,
which is black-and-white), while preserving the
information as searchable text. In addition, it
offers text-to-speech, ability to synchronize
bookmarks, highlights, last page read) across
different devices.
(Wired) | Cost: Free
| Requires: Windows, iPhone or iPod Touch
| For further info...
12-Sep-09 |
Now that Apple has come out
with an iPod Nano that also records video, the
obvious question is: is it as good, or better,
than Pure Digital's Flip Mino, or Kodak's Zi8.
Wonder no more:
Macworld has done a
head-to-head comparison – throwing in the
Apple iPhone 3GS for good measure. The results
speak for themselves.
(Macworld) | For
further info: see here and here, and here
15-Jun-09 |
Love Art: National
Gallery, London is a free iPhone/iPod
touch app providing over 250 high-resolution,
zoomable images of paintings and 200 mins of
video and audio commentary and interviews.
Includes access to a Google map of the gallery
(provided Internet access) and a link to its
website.
(Source: Macintouch)
| Cost: Free
| Requires: iPhone,
iPod Touch | For further
info...
09-Apr-09 |
Lest you think that The
Library of Congress was just about books, it has
begun releasing videos from its archives through
its own YouTube channel, starting with 70
historical videos, inclulding the first ever
moving image (a man sneezing), films from the
Thomas Edison studio and industrial films from
Westinghouse factories.
(Source: Wired) |
Cost: Free | For further info...