Publisher review:Xical is in essence a player for media rich presentations, e-learning lectures, tutorials and webinars. Xical is in essence, a player for media rich presentations, e-learning lectures, tutorials and webinars.
Xical is designed and programmed in Flash and ActionScript and runs on Macromedias OS-agnostic Flash browser-plugin or player in version 6 or higher.
You do not need a Macromedia Flash IDE or a platform running any proprietary software to make Xical presentations! This may actually be the largest single advantage of Xical over other solutions.
All you need to make a media intense Xical based presentation can be provided by open source software such as, for instance, the Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) or Audacity (an open source audio editing tool).
With Xical you can produce web-based slide shows, tutorials, tests and whath Xical e you can think of that can make use of integrated rich media, such as audio (speech and music), video, animations or interactive visual diagrams and the likes. You can also use Xical to make distributable presentations that run locally. So you can use Xical just like you would use any other media rich presentation application.
In fact, Xical offers a solid base of mechanisims and framework for exactly that. It's just extended with caching mechanisims to ensure near simular presentation expierience, regardless whether you use Xical over the web or just locally, on a computer with no connection to a network.
You'll only need a working Macromedia Flash plugin or player, version 6 or higher to actually test and run your Xical applications.
Xical 2.1 is a Flash script for Earth Sciences scripts design by Xical.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Xical is in essence a player for media rich presentations, e-learning lectures, tutorials and webinars.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
Xical 2.1 script details 
