Microsoft just announced that they are extending the "free second shot" on certification exams through June 30, 2008. Click on the banner above to signup or to learn more about the program. Good luck on your exam!

Gary Hoke

Microsoft RoundTable

I had an opportunity to see the Microsoft RoundTable in action today. The device is really cool and looks to compete with some devices from Cisco. One cool feature was that it senses when someone at the table is talking and puts their image in the primary frame inside a video conference window. Additionally, a panoramic view of everyone at the table is available to those via the video conference. The software also had sensing to detect bandwidth limitations which adjusted the video refresh rate to optimize voice communication quality. To learn more about the Microsoft RoundTable click on the image to the left.

Gary Hoke

Introducing dimdim...

dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform.

I had a chance to experiment with dimdim today and discovered it to be very useful. It has many similar features like Live Meeting or Webex. The document sharing was nice, but you have to get the scaling right for the output to be good for everyone. Initially, the document was a little blurry so I had to zoom in to make it more readable.

If you are interesting in trying it out you can signup for an account at http://www.dimdim.com.

Enjoy!

Gary Hoke

I stumbled onto a cool new web service called Doc Chaser. It allows users to track when others read Word documents that they have distributed. It provides detailed information about who opened it, analytics, email alerts, an RSS feed and even a map of where your document has been opened from.

To give Doc Chaser a try go to http://www.docchaser.com.

Gary Hoke