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Archive: March, 2008

Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Posted on 4:18pm 3/05/2008 by Bruno Silva in MS Office, Microsoft, Software, Web

Microsoft Office live Workspace

Finally I received an e-mail that told me that Office Live Workspace is available!

“Office Live Workspace is your online place to store, access, and share 1000+ documents. Use it to distribute meeting notes, work together on group assignments, or simply store documents that you can access from any computer.”

Take a look at http://workspace.office.live.com. A soon as I try it I’ll write a little bit about it.

PowerPoint Wiimote Presenter

Posted on 10:18pm 3/01/2008 by Bruno Silva in Games, Programming, Utilities

Wiimote

After some months willing to buy a Wiimote to try it in my PC, a couple of hours on front of a Wii gaming console convinced me to do finally buy it. After all, now I have some friends with whom I can play using my Wiimote! :-)

Some time ago I wrote a library to the Xbox 360 GamePad (based on XNA 2.0) and a demo which included a PowerPoint add-in to control presentations (targeting Office 2007). Since my GamePad was wired it was just a demo with no real-life usage.

Now I’ve done the same thing with my Wiimote. Based on the Managed Library for Nintendo’s Wiimote available at Codeplex.com, I made a simple (and uncompleted) library that raises events when each pressed/released button state changes. I’ve re-written the PowerPoint add-in to use the Wiimote. Now I finally have a presentation wireless controller (other than my mouse ;) ).

All the presentation control is achieved using the buttons, but if you quickly move the Wiimote you also move to the next slide. This physics-based control was just a test, is not really necessary. Clicking a button is much simpler than using a movement to move forward. It is just a geek trick.

Download the Wiimote Presenter add-in.

Download the add-in source code.

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