Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.

Enjoy the demo!!! mindblowing stuff.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Adobe Presenter

Adobe Presenter 7 ! Now Available !

If you are a corporate training professional wanting to have engaging flash trainings created quickly, educationist wanting to provide on demand courseware for students, marketing professional trying to create high impact multimedia pitch for your offerings or a subject matter expert trying to create rapid trainings, the new Adobe Presenter would make life a lot easier for you.

Adobe Presenter 7 is a very significant new release having many breakthrough new features and is available from today. You would now be able to create a lot more engaging and impactful flash based multimedia trainings very easily and quickly from within Powerpoint. These features have been packed with careful attention to ensure that we do not compromise on the ease of use that you have come to expect out of Adobe Presenter.

Some of the key highlights of the new version are

More Engaging and Higher Impact Training Creation

Presenter 7 has smart multimedia capabilities like incorporating existing video in almost any format to your trainings as flash video and embedding video’s by capturing them directly out of your webcam.You can also create high quality content with Presenter 7 now supporting CD quality stereo audio and H.264video.

Quizzing has been enhanced significantly and quiz creation is now a lot easier, faster and powerful. You can now have questions pooled together in groups and have a fixed number of questions selected randomly selected for each learner. The order of questions as well as answer options can be shuffled. You would also be able to import Quiz questions directly and easily from your existing content.


Wider Content Distribution

Creating engaging content for delivery to distributed audience is a key challenge that we have continued to address with Presenter 7. You would now be able to have trainings taken on mobile devices. You would also be able to package the training as a pdf documents with all the animations intact for easier distribution.


Increased Usability and Configurability

Presenter 7 is a lot more usable with features to make your trainings powerful yet easier to create.

* Ability to restrict navigation for learners which is useful for compliance trainings.
* Easier incorporation of Captivate created swf’s with automatic updation of slide timings
* New format for storing audio (Y es, we have done away with PPC format)
* Bulk formatting of quiz questions for faster authoring
* Separate Quiz pane for easier navigation for the learners
* Fewer clicks for common tasks like slide management
* And a lot more …..

for more info on this check Adobe Presenter, Blog