Want to design standards-compliant websites, beautiful modern Windows applications, or even create beautiful vector icons and graphics?  Expression Studio 4 is a nice suite of applications from Microsoft that lets you do all this and more, and it shows that Microsoft has been paying much more attention to design and standards compliance in the last several years.  Creative Suite Web may offer similar features and more, but it is still...

Being a college student can be awful at times … between homework and rising tuition costs, it seems like you never get a break.  But guess what?  There are still some great advantages to being a student, and one of the biggest is the discounts you can get on software.  Microsoft gives very generous discounts to students on their most popular products, and even gives away their developer tools with the Dreamspark program.  College...

Microsoft recently released a new PowerPoint add-in, Mouse Mischief, that lets whole classrooms easily share one computer using their own mice (up to 25 mice may be used at once!)!  I recently reviewed this at Digital Inspiration, so check out my article for more information: When You Have Just One Computer for the Whole Classroom Interestingly enough, Mouse Mischief was tested in schools in Thailand.  This video shows it in use in...

eBooks are the latest buzz in the tech industry.  From Amazon’s Kindle to the tablet that Apple is expected to unveil next week, it seems like the 2010’s will do for books what the 2000’s did for music with mp3s.  eBooks are hardly a new phenomenon however.  Microsoft has been releasing books in a variety of digital formats for many years.  Best of all, they regularly offer select ones for free download.  Techinch recently...

Microsoft Press often offers eBooks for free, and the Windows 7 launch has prompted several new releases … for free!  I recently saw an article on Rob Margel’s Windows Help blog about a new free guide to Windows 7 from Microsoft (actually, it’s from TechNet, though, not Microsoft Press.  Keep reading for the Microsoft Press stuff!).  It is a very nice PDF that gives a quick overview of some of Windows 7’s newest and...