PixelPerfect

Photoshop Tutorials

Some high end digital retouching for Photoshop and Illustrator. Looks really cool.

Chat Client for all (MAC version)

http://www.adiumx.com/

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

Office for Mac - Easy Access to Downloads and Updates | Mactopia

Office for Mac "Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0

Open XML Converter allows you to convert Open XML files that were created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows so that you can open, edit, and save them in earlier versions of Office for Mac.

Free Stuff

Keynote Objects

Touch Screen Macs made easy?

Troll Touch
I know that y'all were looking for a kiosk solution. Came across this and thought it might be what you were after.

Download Firefox 3

Firefox web browser
The new version is out and it is pretty cool. The Intrepid Girl Reporter has a field guide to the new browser. It is a big step.

2008 XO conference reporting

May 2008 Country Workshop

10:30 Welcome Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One Laptop per Child

10:45 OLPC Operational Strategy Chuck Kane, President, One Laptop per Child

11:00 Future and XO 2.0 Nicholas Negroponte

and much more with video!

Skip brainstorming on the next Game Lab session

Here's what we should do instead of brainstorming at the next game lab session.

Instead of brainstorming, we should use the Video Game Name Generator to generate a name, and then make the kids design it.

For example, here's the name I got: Super Polka Commander. Oh, yeah.

Walk All Ways

An Omnidirectional Treadmill Means One Giant Leap for Virtual Reality

“In the virtual environment you have flight simulators, car simulators, but the most natural way of locomotion for humans is walking and this was practically impossible,” says Marc Ernst, the coordinator of the CyberWalk project at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

Here is another team from Michigan.

Check out the video in action at the bottom of the screen.

Transmedia News

MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Archives

Nice article on transmedia

Plainview

Plainview is basically a full-screen web browser designed to assist in demo'ing web applications or making interactive web-based presentations. It's based on WebKit, the same web page browser that Safari uses, so it will work basically like Safari, minus browser chrome.

College@home list of top 25 educational games

College@home's list of the top 25 sims and games for the classroom

I don't see Science Pirates on that list, so the data may be flawed.

Flip Video

Flip Video Mino

When I say #003366, I mean #003366, dag nabbit!

Finally, a how-to on disabling Photoshop from mucking with your images on export to web due to color profiles.