Adventure Maker was brought to my attention by Lillian Soon, when we met briefly at the RSC Yorkshire and Humber Annual Conference.

We don't meet up very often and perhaps we should especially as Lillian points me in the direction of such resources.

Adventure Maker is an innovative tool that allows users to create...

• point-and-click games; and

• multimedia software...

in minutes, without any scripting or programming.

It runs on Windows, and it allows users to produce these resources for...

Oxelon Media Converter is a must have "audio/video file converter software".

It meets all I've been looking for...

• neat,
• clean interface,
• integrated with the Windows Explorer context menu allowing me to convert media files directly in Explorer by right clicking on them.

It's not often I fall in love with an application at first sight but this is an exception.

Things I like...

1. Oxelon Media Converter supports a wide range of audio and video formats allowing conversion from one to the ...

Microsoft are running two special promotions open to all qualifying Practitioners and learners with a .ac.uk email address (terms and conditions do apply; see website for details)

The offers allow those who qualify to purchase...

• Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 and/or
• Windows 7 at a heavily discounted price...

...Office Ultimate 2007 at £39.50 and Windows 7 at £30.00; all qualifying Practitioners and learners can also choose to buy Windows 7 Professional Upgrade for £30.00, however this...

Have you ever wanted to take pictures of a sprouting seedling, or watch an artist painting in slow motion, or document what went on in a teaching environment all day? Well this can be achieved with a webcam and free software.

If you are using a PC...

• download Microsoft's Webcam Timershot. (Doesn't work with Vista)
  Timershot will save all the photos into a folder of your choosing.
  To incorporate the the images into a video drop the pictures into movie maker or PhotoStory 3 and see phot...

The one thing I like about 'New Browsers' is tabs. Taking cue from web browsers, developers have started embracing the “tab culture” and now we often see tabs in various applications.

For me, I would have liked to have seen them in Microsoft Office. It’s frustrating to be not able to open documents in tabs.

Wait no longer! OfficeTab, a free utility, fills this gap.

OfficeTab enables users to open multiple documents within one office window without cramming up your taskbar.

Wit...