Saturday, July 17, 2010

Game Maker by Yo Yo Games

You can download a cool tool for making games at: yoyogames.com. It takes a while to learn how to use it, but you could make some pretty cool games with this.

I would reccomend reading the "make your first game" tutorial. It is really helpful and shows you how the game maker works.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Microsoft's Web App

Microsoft Office has released its new web app! Now you can make microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote documents online.

Besides making documents online, you can also upload documents you've made on Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote and share them online. The online tool creates files for the newer versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote (.docx, .pptx, etc.) so you may not be able to upload files made on older versions of Microsoft Office.

Of course, the online version doesn't have all of the great features of Microsoft's programs. But if you don't have Word, PowerPoint, Excel or OneNote or want to share your documents online, this can be a really handy tool.

You can find it at skydrive.live.com. To use it you have to have a Windows Live account. If you use Hotmail you already have the account you need. Just sign in with your email address. The sign in page looks EXACTLY like Hotmail's sign in page, but it's not Hotmail!