Elearning - February/March 2008 - (Page 48) NewProducts: Tools Xcelerator, the company says. When formatting new data for fields previously formatted, Xcelerator automatically creates an identical workbook using the selected workbook format. Within seconds, it automatically transforms unformatted data into a formatted workbook better suited for viewing, printing and data analysis. Xcelerator automatically changes field descriptions, creates calculated fields, reorders and hides columns, sorts, creates better formatted subtotals, applies Styles and Conditional formats, creates Charts, PivotTables, PivotCharts and formatted Drill worksheets. Xcelerator combines the time saving Excel formatting and data analysis features of the separate EZ-Format, EZ-Chart, EZPivot, EZ-Calc and EZ-Stat products with the unique ability to automatically and identically format new data in seconds. For more information, visit www.datapresentation.com. FREE SOFTWARE ALLOWS LECTURES TO BE STREAMED Panopto’s CourseCast lecture is being made available to qualified academic institutions free of charge. CourseCast’s easyto-deploy lecture-capture technology enables educators to capture, edit, index, archive and stream video and audio over the Internet. It gives students on-demand access to indexed lectures and course material, enabling them to experience or revisit entire lectures or to focus on segments of their choice. CourseCast is easily deployed using standard PCs and peripherals, which substantially drives down the cost of lecturecapture deployment. Beyond its low-cost ability to seamlessly capture critical content, Panopto’s unique knowledge-management capabilities enable captured material to be easily searched, annotated, linked and safeguarded. These attributes give other potential users, such as corporations, ready access to rich content captured in meetings of all kinds, from the largest to the smallest design meetings, compliance reviews, brainstorming sessions and conferences. For more information, visit www.panopto.com. REMOTE DESKTOP SOFTWARE PASSES 3-MILLION USER MARK The remote desktop software TeamViewer, of the homonymous German company, allows remote connections from and to any PC world-wide. Its user group recently exceeded 3 million. According to the company, the vast world-wide user acceptance strengthens its believe in developing a simple-to-use, fast and functional remote desktop solution. TeamViewer has no redundant auxiliary features but is capable of everything you would expect from a remote support solution. The software is utilized to gain access to customer PCs in order to maintain or give support to clients and servers. It facilitates simple access to any PC connected to the Internet (even behind firewalls), in order to change settings or install applications for instance. For more information, visit www.teamviewer.com. NEXT GENERATION OF ONLINE PHOTO CREATION Visan — www.visan.com and www.rocketlife.com — is now marketing RocketLife.com, the next generation of photo creation technology that revolutionizes the way that consumers create all types of personal photo products online. Rocketlife.com puts an end to the frustration of creating photo products online by instantly creating artistic designs and collages in a matter of seconds, instead of the hours it typically takes with other sites. With Rocketlife.com, there is no need to log into an account and no need to even upload your photos to start creating photo gifts, such as photo albums, calendars, posters and t-shirts. Rocketlife’s “3D Digital Merchandising” real-time photo-realistic 3-D renderings allow you to make any change you want and instantly visualize exactly what the photo end-product will look like in real time. These exclusive patent-pending technologies make intelligent design and layout decisions to allow you to create and personalize your photo book in about five minutes, turning the traditionally long hours of frustrating work into just a few minutes of fun. For more information, visit www.rocketlife.com. AUTOMATED EXCEL FORMATTING REDUCES TIME AND EFFORT The latest release of Xcelerator for Microsoft Excel continues to reduce the time and effort required to format data for the first time and on a repetitive basis. Formatting requiring 30 minutes each time it is performed using only Excel is completed for the first time in less than five minutes with the help of 48 February/March 2008 Elearning! http://www.datapresentation.com http://www.rocketlife.com http://www.teamviewer.com http://www.visan.com http://www.rocketlife.com http://Rocketlife.com http://www.panopto.com
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