Get your invitation to Joost today and you'll enjoy a TV-like experience enhanced with the choice, control and flexibility of Web 2.0. Joost can be accessed from your PC or Intel based Mac with a broadband Internet connection and offers broadcast-quality content for free.

http://joost.com/presents/gigaom-newteevee/

Switch is a free audio format converter for Mac or Windows.

www.nch.com.au/switch/

You can use DoubleTake to stitch two or more images seamlessly together to make a wide or high panorama.
It can also be used to create 360 degree Quicktime VR movies for a fraction of the cost of other packages.
Mac OS X only.

http://echoone.com/doubletake/

Ambient Design is proud to announce a major update to their natural painting application - ArtRage 2.5. This upgrade is a free update to existing purchasers of ArtRage 2. It is available for Windows, and as a Universal Binary for MacOSX.

ArtRage 2.5 is a significant upgrade to the product. It adds many important new features in a way that retains the unique look and feel of ArtRage.
ArtRage 2.2 is still available as a free download for Mac and Windows.

www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html

If you want to create a collage of your favorite photos and put it on a poster, Posterino 1.1 is the slickest and easiest way to get the job done. The program offers a variety of templates, with grids of identically sized frames or with mixtures of shapes and sizes. Adding photos from iPhoto or elsewhere is a cinch. You can have Posterino fill the frames for you, or you can drag and drop images manually for more control. You can also change the size and shape of individual frames, and adjust the placement of each image within its frame. Export options let you send your finished poster to iPhoto or Flickr, hand it off to your e-mail program, or save it elsewhere on your hard drive.
http://zykloid.com/posterino/

Just copying a simple file to CD... It seems it wasn't such a simple task after all...

When the moo.com website went down...

"We really are going to have to find some more pictures of puddles.... if anyone has any then please feel free to upload them to the gallery.

Anyway, back to the weather..."

My school had a Roald Dahl day this week. The children in my class all contributed to a single cartoon put together on Comic Life that is on our new MacBook.
They enjoyed working using Comic Life and found it easy to insert the scanned pictures and resize the boxes. One group went on to produce another comic telling the story of 'The Magic Finger' - also by Roald Dahl.

September will bring with it more exciting projects and even greater support.
Official announcements to be made soon...

EasyWMA allows you to convert wma, wmv audio, asf and ogg vorbis files to aiff, mp3, m4a or wav on your Mac. EasyWMA can be helpful if you need to convert files created by your Olympus voice recorder.
www.easywma.com/

What people are saying...

"I first heard about Jason and his work on podcasting when researching the recent Harnessing Technology in Kent Schools Conference which showcased some great podcast examples from Sussex Road Primary School where he teaches and Downs Primary School the home of Downs FM." says Joe Dale in his blog:
http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2007/07/promoting-the-p.html


"Jason Dilling at the Kent ICT Conference
If you were not at the Conference then you missed Jason doing his thing about podcasting … here are some useful snippets..."
www.podiumpodcasting.com/blog/?p=56

Keynote is an alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. It has many advantages. Its handling of media files is much better. It produces very slick presentations. It has a number of useful export options - for example allowing you to export to an interactive QuickTime movie - complete with any buttons or 'hot spots' you set up in your presentation.

There is an easy way to make a series of slides in Keynote from a group of images in the Finder.

From the Finder, simply highlight the images you want to import to Keynote and drag them to the Navigator window along the left edge of the presentation. (You may have to set your View mode to Navigator (e.g. Keynote » View » Navigator) first). Each image then appears centered within a separate slide.

"I really enjoyed your presentation at conference last week - very informative."
Anna Kerr
ICT Coordinator
St. Teresa's Catholic Primary School

"I met you at the ICT Conference a few weeks ago and I was really impressed and inspired by what you are doing."
Fiona Newton, St Thomas' Catholic School, Sevenoaks

The Windows based tutorials that I record for my support section are created using Camstudio.
Check out this tutorial into how to use it for the best results:
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=90f19c78c75bd1e06f21

This well filmed and presented video could equally be applicable to primary aged children in some of our schools.
Pull out the stops to make digital projects bring learning to life!
www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=b5c8973ade16764156be

Youtube and similar online video services are growing ever more popular. The flash video content can not easily be watched off-line.
To convert the videos and download them to your computer, you can use the services of:
http://vixy.net/

The JVC HDD series is a good camcorder. But the files it creates are NASTY MOI/MOD format. Here is how you can convert them to work with iMovie or other Apple application:
www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=cc0be55b2c82f6975038

Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, Second Edition
Find essential advice for running Windows on your Intel-based Mac!
www.takecontrolbooks.com/windows-on-mac.html

Read this book to learn why you want to use a Mac to run Windows; understand the pros and cons of Apple's Boot Camp versus virtualization software; and find advice and step-by-step instructions for installing either Windows XP or Vista in Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop 3.0, VMware Fusion, and VirtualBox.

You'll also get help with connecting third-party peripherals and printers, sharing files between operating systems, avoiding Windows malware, and backing up a Windows installation. Plus, the book looks briefly at running Windows software without installing Windows and at running Windows on PowerPC-based Macs.

www.takecontrolbooks.com/windows-on-mac.html

Have you listened to Stocks Green Radio?
They publish a new Podcast every other Wednesday. Listen to them via iTunes. Click HERE. (Note if you have not yet got iTunes, you will need to download it HERE first.)

Comic Life is fantastic. Until recently it was a Mac only product.
It's making the trip to Windows.
The second Comic Life for Windows Beta is now available for download.
This latest beta includes many small improvements relating to installation, usage and stability.

You can find the download, new beta serial number and release notes in this forum post here.

See the support section for Podium tutorial Screencasts. Or click HERE.