My Clock says 2009, so lets move from Office 2003 to 2007.

It's not the end of the world, but the shift in apearance from Office 2003 to Office 2007 is pretty strong, at first glance.

However - the packages are basically the same, they just look different and you have to spend a bit of time looking for the commands that you want.

Microsoft have put loads of material on their website to help you learn, including a great interactive guide where you choose a command from an Office 2003 program, like Word, and it shows you the corresponding one in 2007.

I've put the most useful links here





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Drawing with sound

And can you gusess what this on is? Clue - Nothing Compares to U by Sinead O'Connor

It's done by a new application that allows you to control a drawing application with sounds alone - try it at http://www.zefrank.com/v_draw_beta/index3.html (microphone or web cam with mic needed).

The pic was actually created by playing the song into it. Interesting? Stupid? You try

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QR Codes

As Rolf Harris would ask, can you tell what it is yet?

Imagine a world where you want your students to look something up on the internet phon/portable devices that they all will have eventually. They point the camera at this bar code and, whoosh, straight to the web page. Apparently Nokia's popular N95 camera already has the software to read it built in. Look for Bar Code Reader on your phone.

Learn more about them at Mobile BarCodes. Educational uses are discussed at James Clay's Blog.

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