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Today we'll be visiting Adobe's Captain Captivate Website: http://captaincaptivate.com/

This is the link to the introduction video with music for the hero

The menu bar at the top of page has links to:

Resources
"Captivate Resources"

Store
"Templates and more"

Tutorials
"Step-by-Step instructions"

Videos
"Captivate training videos"

The References link has three links listed underneath: Conferences, News, and Training and Consulting.

• The Conferences link leads us to an entry about the Adobe Learning Summit Session. The summit took place in San Jose, CA on November 10, 2008. It's a bit outdated, but the summit occured before Adobe's CS4 software was released.
• The News link proudly shows that Captivate 3 Wins Best Simulation Solution Award.
• The Training and Consulting link shows what the Captain is planning. This is direct from the source:
  

  Here are the Captain’s goals for 2009:

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Post meaningful training videos with great examples once per week

Prepare you for Captivate 4 by reviewing new features

Offer support materials including templates and training tips

Come up with a killer slogan - for example - “By the power of Captivate!” or “Suffering Slidelets!”

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Checking out the Store link I see that it has NOTHING! Well, that was a let down. I would have expected anything that could be sold to have a link created first!

Let's explore the tutorials first!
We see that there are links to Captivate 3 and Captivate 4. This makes sense because Captivate 4 was just recently released and the amount of available material is still limited. The topic at the top of the list today is "Useful Captivate 4 Variables". Here the captain discusses system variables, their default values, and a description. He notes that this supplements Captivate's Help file. The Help file only lists variables from the product's predecessor, RoboDemo. Because I am new to Captivate, these variables do not look familiar to me. They are useful for creating special customizations of Captivate videos that allow users to make decisions.