GameSpot: Forza Motorsport 6 Is Free On Games With Gold, And To Celebrate You Can Grab All Of Its DLC At 95% Off.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/forza-motorsport-6-is-free-on-games-with-gold-and-/1100-6469104/
VentureBeat: Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Compact Overlay, Dynamic Lock, and improved Game Bar
VentureBeat: Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Compact Overlay, Dynamic Lock, and improved Game Bar. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw5JbLsTk
Ubuntu 16.04 Available in Latest Insider Update To Windows 10 – Slashdot
Ubuntu 16.04 Available in Latest Insider Update To Windows 10 – Slashdot http://m.slashdot.org/story/317003
Microsoft Announces OneNote For Mac, Makes It Free Everywhere, Adds An API
Today we’re excited to complete that story with three major developments:
- OneNote for Mac is available for the first time and for free. With this, OneNote is now available on all the platforms you care about: PC, Mac, Windows tablets, Windows Phone, iPad, iPhone, Android and the Web. And they’re always in sync.
- OneNote is now free everywhere including the Windows PC desktop and Mac version because we want everyone to be able to use it. Premium features are available to paid customers.
- The OneNote service now provides a cloud API enabling any application to connect to it. This makes it easier than ever to capture ideas, information and inspirations from more applications and more places straight into OneNote, including:
- OneNote Clipper for saving web pages to OneNote
- me@onenote.com for emailing notes to OneNote
- Office Lens for capturing documents and whiteboards with your Windows Phone
- Sending blog and news articles to OneNote from Feedly, News360 and Weave
- Easy document scanning to OneNote with Brother, Doxie Go, Epson, and Neat
- Writing notes with pen and paper and sending them to OneNote with Livescribe
- Mobile document scanning to OneNote with Genius Scan and JotNot
- Having your physical notebooks scanned into OneNote with Mod Notebooks
- Connecting your world to OneNote with IFTTT
Go to www.onenote.com to get OneNote for free for your Mac, PC or other devices, and try out the new OneNote service connected experiences.
via OneNote now on Mac, free everywhere, and service powered | Office Blogs.
This is big news. Microsoft is giving away its OneNote application and adding a Mac version into the product mix. I’ve installed it on Mac and Windows and it is a close competitor to Evernote.
Some quick observations
- The Mac app has fewer features than the Windows version. For example the recording features are missing on the Mac. The insert dropdown on the Mac only allows for a few basic inserts like table, date, and picture. Windows allows for many objects to be inserted into the notebook.
- Synchronization between devices and the web is very quick. This makes shared notebooks useful. Notebooks are shareable in view only or view/edit mode. Folks without OneNote view the shares through the OneDrive website.
- Linux users can get in on the fun too. I was able to view, edit, and create notebooks after logging on to the onedrive.live.com website. The edits and notebooks are available to the desktop clients.
Overall this looks like a good move from MSFT that will likely increase use of OneNote. I would expect see much more adoption of OneNote in law schools because it compliments their MS Office installed base quite well.
MSFT Bing Launches Bing for Schools Pilot With Curriculum Ideas, Hardware Rewards, and No Ads
Today marks the official launch of Bing for Schools, a new initiative designed to improve digital literacy for students by putting technology in classrooms, helping students learn how to use the power of search, and making sure they can do it in a safer, ad-free environment. We’re not only announcing our first partner districts for the search pilot program and taking requests from school administrators to join, but also expanding our commitment with new features in Bing for Schools that let parents and communities join in the effort to promote the development of digital skills, backed by a national ad campaign to raise awareness about the importance of digital literacy.
via Bing Adds Hardware and Curriculum for Schools, Subtracts Ads – Search Blog.
Sounds like a good program. Removing ads from search results presented to students is great because it removes a distraction that can really take away from the search experience. Searches earn points and points earn Surface RTs. 1»
I hope this program makes it out of the pilot stage into wider release.
Not necessarily the best prize in the world, but in many schools every bit of tech is step in the right direction.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
Get Your IE Chromed!
Chrome Frame is a new browser plug-in developed by Google to give you a Chrome browsing experience inside of Internet Explorer. Let me restate that slightly to make it more clear: Chrome Frame turns IE into Chrome.
via Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome .
Sounds interesting and worthy of a test.
MSFT 2nd GPL Release is a Live Services Plug-in for Moodle
Today, Microsoft announced the Live Services Plug-in for Moodle, a free download released under the General Public License v2 that integrates Microsoft’s Live@edu services such as email, calendar, instant messaging and search directly into the Moodle experience.
What’s even better is that this new, integrated experience is accessible via a single sign-on, which lets teachers and students access the resources and services they need to efficiently communicate, collaborate and learn.