Canvas for OneNote


Microsoft Office Labs have come up with another excellent prototype “Canvas for OneNote”.

This let’s you visualise the different pages in a workbook, or even your different workbooks, from a Bird’s Eye view. This Office Labs video explains it very well but I can’t embed SoapBox here so head over to the Geek in Disguise and watch it here.

The software can be downloaded here and is marked as Vista only…although I’m sire it will run on Windows 7 too (something I need to test soon)…

If you’re familiar with PPTplex (another Officelabs invention) then this is pretty similar in that it lets you see everything all at once, rather than sequentially.

Microsoft Touchless


Touchless is another Microsoft Office Labs project and it is seriously cool…it enables developers to create multi-touch based apps with just a webcam!

It lets you play Pong, control images on-screen and draw within applications using motions-all via a standard webcam 🙂

This video features the creator of Touchless, Mike Wassermann showing off the great capabilities of his Touchless SDK, which can be downloaded from Codeplex here

Good skills Mike, good skills!