Google Jamboard Image Credit - Google Tech Giant Google Inc has announced the release of its new interactive flat panel, the Google Jamboard. Google, renowned for being an innovator and certainly a leader in the world of tech this time, in our opinion has come up short. Not available for another six months, but there [...]
For the IT department of a School District, updating old Smartboards with new technology and software can be an absolute minefield. There are a lot of decisions to be made. What technology? What size LED? How much is it? What software does it come with? This question always leads to the even bigger question we guarantee will [...]
TouchIT Technologies awarded supply contract from Western Suffolk BOCES, NY 6th September 2016 – TouchIT Technologies is pleased to announce that the company has been awarded a Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) supply contract for Interactive LEDs. “We’re excited to be able to offer schools in the State of New York supply of our [...]
Handwriting Recognition (HRW) remains an important feature for many of our users. We've improved the HRW feature but some of you may experience the message below after the most recent update. We changed the behaviour of OKTOPUS to use the same display language for HWR as you have selected for your Windows operating system. For [...]
The 5 Types Of Touch Screen Technology. Which One Is Best For You? In our modern society, Touch Screens have become very commonplace: cell phones, ATM’s, kiosks, ticket vending machines and more all use touch panels to enable the user to interact with a computer or device without the use of a keyboard or mouse. [...]
We all know that the clarity of an image depends hugely on the quality of a) the camera that took the image and b) the screen that you are viewing it on. When your image is coming from a Digital Microscope is it essential that the screen you are using is capable of displaying the highest [...]
New Clear Screen Options Clear Screen This will clear all objects that are currently on the slide. Clear Annotations This will only clear annotations such as pen and highlighter objects. Everything else on the screen will be left intact. Reset Slide For this to [...]
Out of the box, Chrome isn't as touch-friendly as Microsoft's Edge browser. However, you can tweak some hidden settings in Chrome for more touch support for your Windows tablet or touchscreen PC. The experimental settings below will force Chrome to recognize your taps better and add features like new copying and pasting buttons for [...]
TouchIT Notes is renowned for being the collaboration tool of choice for many businesses and schools around the world. But, did you know that it can also be used as a basic annotation tool? Quite often people just want the ability to annotate on their screen and save what they have done. Well, with TouchIT [...]
In this blog post we will discuss how to setup the collaboration features of TouchIT Oktopus and Google Chrome. We have a video Blog that discusses this, but we thought some written instructions might be helpful. It should be noted that you can use the collaboration features of Oktopus on other devices, well any tablet [...]
