Software Industry Announcements and News
INSTANT NAVIGATOR ADDS TO MICROSOFT ONENOTE
[ No Comments ] Posted on 08.17.08 under Business
ExtraMind Systems announces Instant Navigator 0.7, a plug-in for Microsoft OneNote, enhancing it with an instant “quick-as-you-type” search capability and some other productivity features.
Russia - July 28, 2008: Searching for a note in Microsoft OneNote can be a bit complicated. A typical user has hundreds if not thousands of notes he wants to find quickly. But OneNote doesn’t make it easy to do. When you search for a note, OneNote displays all instances of a keyword it finds inside pages, so you have to browse through an endless number of pages or go to the “Search” options to change search criteria, which you also do several times until you find what you want. Adding new notes every day makes things even more complicated.
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The Magic Toy Chest - Physics Puzzle Game Released!
[ No Comments ] Posted on 08.16.08 under Games & Entertainment
The Magic Toy Chest - a fun and family oriented physics puzzle game by Graduate Games is officially released!
August 13, 2008 - The Magic Toy Chest is the latest and greatest game released by Graduate Games (www.graduategames.com). A physics-based puzzler featuring addictive and open gameplay, The Magic Toy Chest brings the whole family together to solve mind bending puzzles with simple point and click gameplay. The game is inspired by classic 2D games such as “The Incredible Machine” but has been updated with modern graphics, sound, and dynamic physics sprinkled in for good measure. It’s available to download now for Windows.
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Create Help Files, Web Content, XML Files with Help & Manual v. 5
[ No Comments ] Posted on 08.15.08 under ASP Member Companies, Development
EC Software has released Help & Manual version 5, a powerful Windows
application that lets software developers and technical writers create
help files, PDF manuals, knowledge bases, and other documentation. In
addition to being a classic help authoring tool, Help & Manual’s
multi-user capabilities let teams of content managers create a content
management system (CMS), without having to wrestle with database or
server software. All of the output from Help & Manual can be saved as
Webhelp, PDF files, HTML Help, Winhelp, Word documents, XML, or e-Books.
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Edit Movies and Music with Windows Media Player
[ No Comments ] Posted on 08.14.08 under Audio & Multimedia
Editing multimedia files, especially videos, normally involves hard-to-comprehend programs, hours of learning and the headache of troubleshooting the final result. Now a great deal of video and audio editing can be done right in Windows Media Player, eliminating the useless hardships.
Turning Windows Media Player into a multimedia editor was made possible by the SolveigMM WMP Trimmer plugin, which delivers the editor capabilities to the player and allows performing the most common editing operations right within the player window.
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Digital River to Participate at the Games Convention Developers Conference
[ No Comments ] Posted on 08.13.08 under ASP Member Companies, Development, Games & Entertainment
MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that the company will sponsor, speak and exhibit at the GCDC. The event is being held Aug. 18-20, 2008, at the Leipzig Exhibition Center in Leipzig, Germany.
Digital River, a gold level sponsor, will have an extensive presence at the event. In addition to exhibiting on level one of the conference center, the company will host a break-out session on Aug. 18th titled “Get Your Game e-Face On,” which will focus on how to launch and run a profitable, global gaming e-business.
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Increase Productivity by Automating Standard Presentations
[ No Comments ] Posted on 08.12.08 under ASP Member Companies, Audio & Multimedia, Business
MomSoft has released PowerForms, an add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint that
takes the work and uncertainty out of creating and filling in standard
presentations. Working from within the familiar Microsoft PowerPoint
interface, PowerForms makes it easy to create new model presentations,
modify existing ones, and fill the models with the appropriate
information. By standardizing and automating your business’ standard
presentation processing, productivity increases, printing expenses
decrease, and errors become less and less frequent.
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