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Smart boards sport new software, pricing. (New products: tools for schools).


Smart Board, www.smarttech.com, Hardware/Software, $999 to $,1,999 for hardware, software update free to users

SMART Recorder is an update to SMART Board software, which is used in conjunction with SMART interactive whiteboards An interactive whiteboard is a large interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. A projector projects the computer’s desktop onto the board’s surface, where users control the computer using a pen, finger or other device. , so lessons and seminars can be captured and played back or viewed online. The software makes it easy to capture and save synchronized syn·chro·nize  
v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es

v.intr.
1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous.

2. To operate in unison.

v.tr.
1.
 data and audio. All annotations and information can be recorded to a single file for later play back in Windows Media Player Digital jukebox software for Windows from Microsoft that plays a variety of audio, video and streaming formats including MP3, WMA, CD audio and MIDI. Starting with Version 6.2 in 1999, the Windows Media Rights Manager was added for securing copyrighted content.  or online. Online demonstrations are available on the company's Web site.

Using the software, users control computer applications by pressing on the board's touch-sensitive surface. When a pen is selected from the SMART Pen Tray, users can write over any application using either a finger or a stylus stylus: see pen.


(1) A pen-shaped instrument that is used to "draw" images or select from menus. Styli (the plural of stylus, pronounced "sty-lye") come with handheld devices that have touch screens, such as PDAs and video games.
. This software, which includes the SMART Board driver 7.0 and SMART Notebook 2.4, is for Windows. Current customers may download it "Download It" is Clea's debut single. It was released in the UK on September 22, 2003 and missed the top 20 charting at #21. The single had average promotion, being performed in shows like Top of the Pops.  free.

Smart Board has also announced new prices for its 560 and 580 models, $1,599 and $1,999, respectively. The 47" diagonal SMART Board 540 now sells for a suggested $999. Qualified educational institutions, museums and libraries may apply for a grant through the SMARTer Kids Foundation for 25 percent of the suggested list price of the above-mentioned SMART Boards.

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