Online document editors
If you’ve been living under a tree, without wifi, not on the twitters or without a netbook for the last few years you may not have known or heard of google docs. It’s nice and gets the job done, but I’m not blown away by the user interface.
Today, I took a second look at Adobe’s offering, buzzword. Also, not super feature rich, but it has a nice UI and it gets the job done as well. Both services are free and provide ample storage for many documents. Both are in “beta” so watch for some form of service fee in the future.
Bottom line is, if you need to author a document and don’t need or want to pay for the insane cost of using all the features of Microsoft Word, one of these web services might be the answer.
Use Gimp instead of Photoshop to edit those Digital Photos
Photoshop from Adobe is a professional application and priced accordingly. There are plenty of other applications out there can help you get the job done. Some are free and others are very inexpensive.
Low Cost:
GraphicConverter (Mac Only)
Adobe Photoshop Elements (Windows, Mac)
Free:
The GIMP
Picasa Photo Gallery (Windows, Linux)
iPhoto (Mac – free on new mac or part of iLife for $79.00)
Excellent resources for eLearning
A list of some very helpful sites for elearning developers:
- http://www.adlnet.gov/ (scorm)
- http://www.aicc.org/ (aicc)
- Creating Content with Adobe Flash
- http://www.elearningweekly.com
- http://www.ostyn.com/resources.htm
My presentation on using SCORM in Adobe Flash from the Plateau Insights 2008 Conference. This utilization of SCORM is specific to the Plateau LMS.
- insights_breakout_session_flash_scorm_20080916
- A sample Flash SCORM 1.2 file (requires Adobe Flash CS3)
I’ll be uploading some Flash samples by the end of the week.
Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats
The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIRâ„¢ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices
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