Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
Here is a sample Flash tutorial created by Wink. Click the green arrow button to start viewing it. -------->
(More tutorials created by Wink users and companies can be found at the User Forums.)
This is a good example of how you can create tutorials in Wink, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them. And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation.
It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can create content viewable across the web in all these users' desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features. So spread the word about Wink to your friends.
Krut is a screencast tool that is written in Java and well suited for making video tutorials (instructional videos) on most platforms. Krut records movie files, including sound, of selected parts of your screen. The files use the quicktime mov format. The program has an intuitive and compact user interface.
In addition to a movie file, the program also records separate files for audio (wav) and video (mov), which easily allows encoding to any movie format using an external encoding program.
Some additional features:
- Timer-controlled recording
- Moveable recording areas during recording
- Preview of ongoing recording
- Optional mouse pointer recording
- Record/Playback at 2 different frame rates
- Highly accurate audio-video synchronization
Obba provides a bridge from spreadsheets to Java classes. With Obba, you can easily build spreadsheet GUIs (Excel or OpenOffice) to Java code. Its main features are:
* Loading of arbitrary jar or class files at runtime through an spreadsheet function.
* Instantiation of Java objects, storing the object reference under a given object label.
* Invocation of methods on objects referenced by their object handle, storing the handle to the result under a given object label.
* Asynchronous method invocation and tools for synchronization, turning your spreadsheet into a multi-threaded calculation tool.
* Allows arbitrary number of arguments for constructors or methods (avoids the limitation of the number of arguments for Excel worksheet functions).
* Serialization and de-serialization (save Serializable objects to a file, restore them any time later).
* All this though spreadsheet functions, without any additional line of code (no VBA needed, no additional Java code needed).
For a more detailed introduction see the Obba documentation
Components
Obba is small.
Obba for Excel consists of three files (these files will be installed by an an installer Install Obba for Excel.exe):
* Obba.xla: An Excel Add-in providing workbook functions like obMake(), obCall(), obGet().
* Obba.dll: The bridge from Excel to Java.
* Obba.jar: The Java object handler and the Obba control panel.
Obba for OpenOffice consists of one file:
* Obba.oxt: The Obba Add-in including the OpenOffice adapter and Obba.jar (the Java object handler and the Obba control panel).
Your users want to customize formulas. They know Excel or OpenOffice.
// Compile price finding factory and strategy implementation from spreadsheet:
EngineBuilder builder = SpreadsheetCompiler.newEngineBuilder();
builder.loadSpreadsheet( new File( PATH, "CustomPriceFormula.xls" ) );
builder.setFactoryClass( PriceFinderFactory.class );
builder.bindAllByName();
Engine engine = builder.compile();
PriceFinderFactory factory = (PriceFinderFactory) engine.getComputationFactory();
// Use it to compute a line item price:
LineItem item = getCurrentLineItem();
PriceFinder priceFinder = factory.newInstance( item );
BigDecimal price = priceFinder.getPrice();
Compile parametrized spreadsheets directly to bytecode.
* No need to have Excel, OpenOffice, or a JDK installed.
* Native speed, thread safe execution.
* Bind directly to your computation strategy interfaces.
* Using double, or BigDecimal for financial applications.
* Available under the GPL and commercially (details).
Thinking Rock allows you to collect your thoughts and process them into actions, projects, information or future possibilities. Actions can be done by you, delegated to someone else or scheduled for a particular date. Projects can be organised with ordered actions and sub-projects. You can review all of your actions, projects and other information quickly and easily to see what you need to do or to choose what you want to do at a particular time.
StorYBook is a free, summary-based open source software for creative writers like novelists and authors that helps to keep the overview over the strands while writing a book, a novel or a story. StorYBook assists you to structure your book.
Aspose.Words enables .NET and Java applications to read, modify and write Word® documents without utilizing Microsoft Word®. Aspose.Words supports a wide array of features including document creation, content and formatting manipulation, powerful mail merge abilities, comprehensive support of DOC, RTF, WordprocessingML, HTML and PDF formats. Aspose.Words is truly the most affordable, fastest and feature rich Word component on the market.
TeXnicCenter is a feature rich integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on Microsoft Windows (Windows 9x/ME, NT/2000/XP) freely available under GPL.
WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX. The program includes a text editor, syntax highlighting, project management, spell checking, a table wizard, BibTeX support, Unicode support, different toolbars and user configuration options. It is not a LaTeX system; an additional LaTeX package is required.
Kile is a user friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop environment. KDE is available for many architectures such as PC, PowerPC (Mac for example) and SPARC.
LaTeX Editor, called later LEd, is a free environment for rapid TeX and LaTeX document development.
LaTeX Editor is designed to work on Windows® 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. LEd's capabilities vary according to the operating system used, e.g., Visual Styles from Windows® XP. It, however, works with almost all functionality also on Windows® 95.
Group-Office is a Groupware suite containing a base system and different modules. The modules are designed in a way that groups of people can collaborate online. Shared calendars, addressbooks, projects, files and e-mail are the key features of the project. Users use their favorite browser to access their groupware from all over the world. Combined with the powerful Linux operating system it is a complete enterprise solution for the small to medium enterprise.