miBookWriter 1.0

miBookWriter 1.0 offers the ultimate solution for authoring multimedia interactive content that may be used for computer based learning, testing, training, surveying, data collection, etc. Its companion tool is miBookReader which presents the content created by miBookWriter for respondent interactions as well as evaluating the interactions, storing them, examining and visualizing the results.

Major Features:

1. Edit content with easy drag & drop operations.
2. Very flexible content layout, up to author's imagination and creativity.
3. Content can be very rich both in terms of media supported and of the kinds of interactions possible. Supports a wide variety of media such as text, images, sounds, movies, web content both live and static, and even arbitrary files.
4. Supports canned and custom question types, such as true/false, yes/no, multiple choice, multiple mark, rating scale, fill-in-blank, attachment, sound recording, text inputs, and drag & drop.
5. Powerful templates that are easy to make and use. Templates may be named, searched and dragged to canvas. Selected objects on a page or an entire page can be turned into reusable templates with one click.
6. Built-in sound recording feature ideal for incorporating human voice into content.
7. Built-in screen grabber for leveraging users' other applications to help content creation. The grabber serves as a bridge between this application and any other applications. Anything displayed on screen can be lifted as an image and incorporated into content.
8. Content is capable of real-time audio and visual feedback.
9. Built-in support for automatic and manual content error checking.
10. Support an array of easy to use and yet powerful content building blocks including buttons, text view, text field, read only text (for labeling, carrying textual content), pop up button, combo box, movie control, sound control, web view (html, pdf, flash), images, and simple vector graphics drawing tools (like line, circle, rectangle and polygon).
11. Integration with miBookReader supporting one click toggle between editing and previewing of content under construction.
12. QuickLook support; press spacebar in Finder to peek into content files without running miBookWriter.
13. Content is searchable in terms of its title, subject, keywords with built-in content browser.
14. Content may be password protected for editing and viewing by target audience.
15. Built-in support for software updates.
16. Content may be set to expire after a given date. Expired content can not be opened for viewing by miBookReader.

Requirements: Mac OSX 10.5 or higher