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Friday, January 30, 2004 posted by Geetesh 10:33 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint In School Bet you didn't know a koala bear isn't a bear at all. If you had seen Mandeville Elementary third-grader Sarah Schneider's Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on koalas, you'd know that a koala is more closely related to a wombat. Find more at the Everything New Orleans site... 0 comments Links to this post


Thursday, January 29, 2004 posted by Geetesh 9:42 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Giving PowerPoint Pizzazz with Macromedia Flash There are many reasons you might want to use Flash movies in your PowerPoint presentation, most notably to take advantage of Flash's interactive vector animations and small file size. In some cases, you may already have Flash movies on your Web site or intranet that you want to incorporate into PowerPoint. Or you may want to create a Flash movie specifically to include in a presentation, enabling you to add some extra pizzazz to PowerPoint's existing functionality. Learn more with Patrice-Anne Rutledge... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 7:58 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Book Extract: Special Edition Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 This book extract from Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 is an Indezine exclusive with permission from Pearson Education. The extract is an entire chapter on working with charts in PowerPoint. Read here... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 7:46 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	What You Should Know About Mydoom W32/Mydoom@MM spreads through e-mail. This worm can disguise the sender's address, a tactic known as spoofing, and may generate e-mails that appear to have been sent by Microsoft or someone else. Many of the addresses Mydoom uses are valid addresses that are being spoofed for malicious purposes. Here's Microsoft's security response... 0 comments Links to this post


Tuesday, January 27, 2004 posted by Geetesh 2:11 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint Raves And Rants The Sydney Morning Herald talks about how PowerPoint has given confidence to mediocre public speakers, captivated the business world and was recently implicated as one of many factors leading to last year's Columbia space shuttle crash. Power, up to a Point... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 12:16 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Create Star Wars Credits in PowerPoint George Lucas must be so proud of Microsoft. In PowerPoint 2002 and 2003, you can now make Star Wars type animations. The text crawls from bottom to the top, diminishing in size until it fades into oblivion. You expect to see the Millennium Falcon zoom by at any moment. Learn more from my tutorial at the Computor Companion site... 0 comments Links to this post


Monday, January 26, 2004 posted by Geetesh 8:12 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint Ezine Issue 36 The new ezine issue is now live... It's Christmas Again! - freebies for everyone The Richard Bretschneider Interview - an honest interview that explains Microsoft's position on PowerPoint Focus on Apreso - an introduction linked to an extensive review Quick News - more PowerPoint news than anywhere else! New Year's Presentation Resolutions - exclusive from Claudyne Wilder SuperSaver 6 Offer - a never-before, never-after offer 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 8:01 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Sound Fades with Sony Sound Forge 7 Creating sound fade-ins and fade-outs is an often asked question on the PowerPoint newsgroup. Thanks to Steve Foldvari of Sony who helped me do a tutorial on Creating Fades in Sony Sound Forge... 0 comments Links to this post


Sunday, January 25, 2004 posted by Geetesh 2:03 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Office 2003 Service Pack By June Users of Microsoft's Office System products released in October can expect the first service pack for the software in late June, Microsoft said on Friday... 0 comments Links to this post


Saturday, January 24, 2004 posted by Geetesh 4:43 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Imaptica Announces Mac OS X Edition Impatica announced the release of the PowerPoint add-in product that creates streaming content using Java technology for Mac OS X. Impatica already creates a Windows version of this popular product. More info... 0 comments Links to this post


Friday, January 23, 2004 posted by Geetesh 7:10 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint In Schools "With PowerPoint, our fourth-grade students are doing electronic presentations, creating and deleting slides" "Next semester, Timperley has more projects in store for her kids. They may be doing a PowerPoint music video." - read more about how computing is making a difference... 0 comments Links to this post


Tuesday, January 20, 2004 posted by Geetesh 7:38 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	The Richard Bretschneider Interview Richard is from Microsoft - he was lead program manager for PowerPoint 2003, and is one of those currently directing planning for the next version of the product. In this interview, Richard discusses the new PowerPoint 2003 and looks beyond... 0 comments Links to this post


Friday, January 16, 2004 posted by Geetesh 7:24 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	AcuLearn Version 2 for PowerPoint AcuLearn has announced a new version of its plug-in for PowerPoint. Users can enhance presentations with live video and audio and deliver presentations live or on-demand. Learn more... 0 comments Links to this post


Thursday, January 15, 2004 posted by Geetesh 10:33 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Olympus A New Player In The Projector Market Olympus introduced the small, light and easy to use VP-1 Data Projector at CES 2004 in Las Vegas. Learn more at the Olympus site... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 1:17 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Anystream Apreso Gets Thumbs Up Online rich media (ORM) continues to emanate from PowerPoint. And then comes Apreso, the name of the product that I am exploring. Predictably, Apreso uses PowerPoint as its source. Unpredictably though, Apreso manages to do so much more at the same time that it almost threatens to create a new presentation workflow. If that got you interested, let's proceed and discover the nuances of this amazing PowerPoint add-in... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 1:14 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerFinish Sale Until January 19th, PowerFinish providing 7 volumes of PowerPoint templates, PowerDesign Sets and presentation backgrounds for $199.99 rather than the regular rate of $620! Look here for their product sale items... Labels: powerpoint, templates 0 comments Links to this post


Wednesday, January 14, 2004 posted by Geetesh 2:27 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PresenterONE Version 2 Released Accordent Technologies released Version 2 Of PresenterONE - this new version includes support For RealAudio 10 And RealVideo 10. You'll find more info at the Accordent site... Also, read this press release at the Streaming Media, Inc. site ... Categories: add-in, powerpoint


posted by Geetesh 10:37 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PointCapture Update Provides Better Interface Peter McClard of CaptureWorks informed me about the release of version 1.1 of PointCapture that adds a great new interface that includes drop-down menu choices to make more interactive searches. PointCapture allows you to search a specific PowerPoint presentation or slide buried in your computer folders, using powerful data and text filtering and search tools. More info at the PointCapture site... Also read the Indezine review... 0 comments Links to this post


Tuesday, January 13, 2004 posted by Geetesh 9:21 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	CorelDRAW 12 Integrates With Microsoft Office Corel announced that the new version of CorelDRAW publishes designs for use in your office productivity suite to enhance text documents by adding graphics published directly from CorelDRAW Graphics Suite to Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office. More info... 0 comments Links to this post


Monday, January 12, 2004 posted by Geetesh 10:10 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint Live 2004 - Registrations Open Registrations for the PowerPoint Live program are now open. Find more about this event that's going to be held at San Diego from October 10 to 13, 2004 at the new look PowerPoint Live 2004 site... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 9:42 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	NXPowerLite is PowerPoint 2003 Compatible Just received a mail from the folks at Neuxpower with the good news that their NXPowerLite product is now PowerPoint 2003 compatible. The new 1.53 version is available as a free upgrade for existing customers. For those of who don't know, NXPowerLite optimizes file sizes of PowerPoint presentations. Learn more... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 4:58 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint Autorun CD Do-it-Yourself Echo Swinford's PowerPoint Autorun CD for versions PowerPoint 97 through 2003 is now mirrored at Indezine. Look here... Extend this further and create an EXE from the packaged presentation. Look here... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 8:56 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Insert Pictures Quickly in PowerPoint for the Mac Microsoft MVP Jim Gordon announced the new version of InsertPicturePPTX, a PowerPoint add-in that works on the Mac. As Jim adds "The ability to do a bulk import has been added. The bulk import feature works in PowerPoint 2001 only. The bulk import feature will import a hundred 72-dpi pics into a presentation in just a few seconds." More info... 0 comments Links to this post


Monday, January 05, 2004 posted by Geetesh 8:35 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Autorun CD Using the New Viewer PowerPoint MVP Echo Swinford has put up a nice tutorial on using the new PowerPoint 2003 Viewer to create autorun CDs with PowerPoint 2002 and 2003. Read here... 0 comments Links to this post