Office 2007 cheat Sheets, Easy linking to PDF files & 2 nice PowerPoint add-ins

Added to Microsoft Office 2007 Guides page:

Printable "Cheat Sheets".

Custom guide has released printable PDF guides for many popular applications, inclusing Office 2007 - you can access them all here:

>> Click here to download the printable guides <<

Added to the PDF Tools page:

Embed or Link to PDFs easily

If you want someone else to read a PDF easily then you can upload it to Google Docs so they can read it on any piece of on-line enabled hardware, without having to have a PDF reader installed.

If the PDF is already hosted online somewhere else then you can use Google's Embeddable Document viewer to allow your recipient(s) to view the PDF document online easily. This also works with Power Points presentations that have been uploaded somewhere!

>> Click here to learn more about Google's Embeddable Document Viewer <<

Added to the Presentation Tools page:

• YouTube Video Add In - Similar to Authorstream this lets you insert YouTube videos into Powerpoint slides, this one is useful to use if you already know the URL of the video you want to use.
  
  If you want to search for a video withough leaving Powerpoint, then use AuthorStream.
  
  
• LiveWeb - Another free Powerpoint add-in, this one lets you insert a live webpage into a powerpoint slide.

On-line sound & video editors plus a guide to getting more out of Dropbox

Added to the Sound Recording & Editing page:

• Myna - a free on-line audio recorder and editor.

Added to the Online file storage page:

• Lifehacker's guide to doing more with Dropbox

Added to the Video Editing & Creation page:

• Pixorial - This site has free & paid for plans. It lets you upload up to 10 gigs worth of video for free and then edit it using their online video editor - worth a look.

New diagramming software, url shorteners & new tutorials for Mind 42 & Jing

Hello!

I’ve added some more resources to the site, I hope you find them useful.

Added to the Diagramming software page

• Creately - A nice free online chart & diagram maker, with this site you can make unlimited diagrams for free as long as you are happy for them to be publicly viewable.

Added to the mind mapping page

• An series of tutorial videos on how to use Mind 42:
  
  http://stmarycommunityschool.wikispaces.com/Mind42+Tutorial+Page

Added to the Jing page

• A new guide to getting started with Jing:
  
  http://content.screencast.com/users/jinghelpcenter/folders/pdf/media/c37e4f4c-bdb5-4647-9c50-14bf0385511a/jing-welcome%20guide.pdf
  
  

Added to the url shortener page

• Bit.ly - Currently the world's most popular URL shortener, it also lets you define custom short URLs and so is my top pick.
  
  
• J.mp - Powered by Bit.ly, this gives you even shorter URLs than it's bigger brother.

My thanks go to Salman Usman the Academic E-learning Developer at Kingston University London for contacting me to suggest I add Bit.ly to my site - thanks Salman!

My team’s new website & blog

Hello.

This post isn't about an update to my resources site, but to let you know that the e-learning team that I’m part of has launched a new website & accompanying blog outlining it’s services to staff, students and external clients (i.e. you!).

If you are interested you can check out the site here:

http://sites.google.com/site/uwnshsstells/

And if you’d like to subscribe to the latest news from the team via RSS, email or Twitter then you can do that here:

http://sites.google.com/site/uwnshsstells/stay-updated

Announcement over, normal business will resume shortly.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers!

Paul.