The New “Buzz” On The Net

Here is a piece of news for people looking for a good online word processor. Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity’s BuzzWord, a word processing application that is easy-to-use and full of features.

BuzzWord is perfect if you are looking to work with a team. You can grant what role they will have by clicking on the “share” button on the bottom left of the document and entering their email address and role. You can see each other while online and checkout the changes they made.

This online word processing application lets you work with your team in real time. There are three roles that you can assign to other collaborators – co-author, reviewer and reader. The co-author has full editing access while the reviewer can only add comments and the reader, as the name implies can only read the article.

One important feature of this word processor is that, when you take a printout, the page looks just the same as it looks on-screen! Even the popular Google docs sometimes fail to print the page as it looks on your PC screen. The reason is, BuzzWord is built with Adobe Flash and hence can bypass the problem HTML has with the layout of the page. As a result, you can work on your file online and get a hard copy, if needed. BuzzWord also keeps track of different versions of a document so that if needed, you can revert back to any previous version.

The best part of this application is definitely the fact that it is free! It is still in developing stages and Adobe is hoping to bring an offline version pretty soon.

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Blender 2.46 – The Power-packed 3D Animator

Blender is an immensely popular cross platform 3D animation creator. The latest version of this software Blender 2.46 has been released on May 17th this year and till date the software has been downloaded almost 158,000 times from Download.com. This information is enough to mark the popularity of Blender. Basically Blender is a 3D animation program released as free open-source software. This is no doubt a powerful weapon for the 3D animation professionals. Some of the features it offers are advanced simulation tools including rigid body, fluid, and soft body dynamics, modifier based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, node based material and compositing system and Python for embedded scripting. To some extent Blender is as powerful as other advanced 3D software like Softimage|XSI, Cinema 4D, 3D Studio Max, Lightwave and Maya.

Learning the application of blender is easy thanks to various community tutorials and discussion forums available on internet. You can also learn by downloading the software and studying the ready-made Blender models. Such models are easily available on the resource sites like Official Blender Model Repository. There are other useful tools as well like free downloadable BlenderArt Magazine. Each issue of the magazine covers a particular area in 3D development. You can also refer to BlenderNation, the central news site with all the required information, new techniques and features on Blender.

You can use Blender for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications. This can be operated with different OS including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and many more.

For some specific type of websites like sites related to kids, a small 3D animation can increase its visual impact several times. So if you own such a website and want to edit your website by adding some animations, Blender can be a good option. It will save your money not only because it is free, but also you can create some animations on your own with the help of online resources along with some basic technical knowledge.

Audacity - Not At All Audacious

Yesterday while browsing for audio editing software, I happened to see that Audacity, the digital audio editor application is the 9th most popular download from SourceForge.net with 40 millions downloads, as of 30th May 2008. Audacity is a open source software for recording and editing sounds. You can run the application on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. This is a free software licensed under GNU GPLv2. but it may update to GPLv3 after it 1.4.0 version. The latest stable version of audacity was 1.2.6, which was released on 15th November in the year 2006. Audacity version 1.3.5 (beta) has been released already but the work is still in progress. It has not yet turned up with complete documentation or translations into foreign languages. The version is more for advanced users rather than the beginners.

Audacity is a user-friendly software. You can edit the audio part with only cut, copy and paste options with unlimited undo options. You can mix multi tracks here with the software with wide storage of digital effects and plug-ins. The software offers the facility of amplitude envelope editing and noise removal. You can also change the pitch of the audio. I have experienced that this software makes necessary adjustment to the audio speed to synchronize with the video. I could even convert cassette tapes or records into digital tracks with the help of it.

Overall. It’s a good software to check out if you are into audio editing. Do post your comments here if you have already used it.

Enhance Websites With Google Apps

The name I trust for relevant websites is Google. Now I can choose from a host of applications that Google has planned for businesses, employees, schools, students, members and organizations. At present, this service comes free to me and helps sharing information with friends and colleagues.

No installation or set up is needed and I get a free access to these applications when and where I need. Google offers the service with complete security and compliance with existing emails. These applications have not only made everyday work easy, but it helps as we work in groups- on documents, spreadsheets and making presentations.

The site status wizard helps me find whether my website is being indexed by Google, through the webmasters tools. I can also track what turns on the visitors to my site and build site traffic. Tools like Google gadget help me search from a directory and improve my website. Search-engine that is powered by Google, apart from enhancing the site helps in growing the sales and brings down support costs. While webtoolkit makes AJAX applications simpler, Gears like LocalServer, Database and Worker Pool help developers make web applications that can run offline.

Apart from a host of tools, the new age applications from Google are needed for making simple electronic communication and publish and share online information. The applications are made user-friendly so that users have an easy access with an internet connection.