Picks of the Week: OnLive Desktop, VLC 2.0

Picks of the Week

Paul's pick: OnLive Desktop

OnLive Desktop gives you the freedom to work from anywhere. Build PowerPoint presentations with graphs, even videos. Then present them directly from your iPad or external monitor. You can also update Microsoft Word docs on the go. Use touch, an on-screen keyboard or handwriting recognition to view, edit, redline and comment. Add and analyze data with the full functionality of Excel. Create graphs anywhere, then simply drag and drop to update your Office documents.

To get started, go to http://desktop.onlive.com

Andrew's pick: VLC 2.0

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. It's simple, powerful and fast. VLC plays everything, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD, Blu-Ray), Webcams and Streams. VLC also plays most codecs with no codec packs needed. Works on most platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix.

Get VLC at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/