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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 posted by Geetesh 9:56 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	SmartDraw on PowerPointed.com SmartDraw is now a featured product on PowerPointed.com - SmartDraw helps you create diagrams, charts, timelines, and illustrations for perfect presentations in minutes. Download a free trial... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 10:36 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Six Trade Secrets For Great Speaking Make the speech about the audience not about you, the content. or data-filled power point slides. As a presenter, face to face with an audience you have an opportunity to connect with people in a unique way. You can form a relationship with a group, with all its synergy and back and forth flow of questions and ideas. Learn from Patti Wood... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 10:34 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Microsoft Office 2003 is worth the upgrade When Microsoft released their new Office 2003 Suite in November, 2003, many people claimed it was just a money grab and that the upgrade didn't offer enough to warrant the price. Well, I've been using it for a while now, and I'm here to tell you that it's a good value for the upgrade cost. Murray Hill of Saskatoon Sun tells more... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 10:26 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Perspector and death by bullet points "If you can get your message over to your manager in thee slides rather than 15, then you're ahead. It is an arms race." You have all been there. Halfway through the fourth business presentation of the week, somewhere around the 17th slide, it all stops making sense. Does Perspector come to the rescue? Find out... 0 comments Links to this post


Tuesday, June 29, 2004 posted by Geetesh 4:01 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	ArtRage ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. You can run ArtRage on a normal Windows machine with a mouse, but it works particularly well if you have a graphics tablet. Even better, running ArtRage on a TabletPC takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel. ArtRage is a free product... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 11:02 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Showtime Follies The PowerPoint road show presentation lives on, despite maltreatment of the art form by occasionally clueless presenters. By comparison, an all-video presentation is too costly to create for all but a handful of high-value events. At the other extreme, winging it in public without any visuals could cost you a chance to underscore your important points. Bill Howard tells more on the PC Magazine site... 0 comments Links to this post


Monday, June 28, 2004 posted by Geetesh 2:59 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Free Starfield PowerPoint Template Ever wanted a starfield background for a PowerPoint presentation. Look no further... 0 comments Links to this post


Sunday, June 27, 2004 posted by Geetesh 9:15 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Next slide please,' wirelessly Business travelers have a new wireless gadget for meetings: the RemotePoint Global Presenter from Interlink Electronics. Recently upgraded to the 2.4-gigahertz international standard, this palm-size controller can be used to run a PowerPoint presentation from a PC up to 100 feet, or 30 meters, away. More on the International Herald Tribune site... 0 comments Links to this post


Wednesday, June 23, 2004 posted by Geetesh 11:06 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Style Workshop Everyone wants their PowerPoint presentations to look different. And so do you - but where do you start? With a template? That's part of the answer - but you also need color coordinated buttons, icons and bullets - and nice visuals that match the look and feel of your presentation. That's where Style Workshop comes into the picture... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 10:33 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Perspector for PowerPoint PerspectorT is a new add-in for PowerPoint that gives it real 3D capabilities. It operates seamlessly with PowerPoint and is easy to use. More info at the TMCnet site... 0 comments Links to this post


Sunday, June 20, 2004 posted by Geetesh 4:08 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Canon World Clipart Canon Japan has over 700 free pieces of clip art designed by illustrators from all over the world. More info and free download here... 0 comments Links to this post


Saturday, June 19, 2004 posted by Geetesh 7:52 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint and Video Inserting video clips into PowerPoint is usually easy - and PowerPoint allows ample control over how you want the video to play while in slide show mode. However, video in itself comes from disparate sources - from camcorders to stock footage libraries and in-house rendered content to downloads from the Internet. An amazing number of video formats actually are bestowed with an even more amazing numbers of codecs. And if you don't know what this format and codec thing means, you have come to the right place! Read on… 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 7:36 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint and Wildform Flix Ever since Macromedia decided to open up the Flash SWF format, there has been a deluge of fine programs that output everything from animations and video to the Flash SWF format. Our subject of discussion today is Flix from Wildform, a program that converts video formats to Flash SWF. Read more... 0 comments Links to this post


Friday, June 18, 2004 posted by Geetesh 7:52 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint Presentations inside BMW Watches With the earphones plugged in, the new BMW watch screams "look at me" almost as loudly as a phoenix-yellow metallic M3 Coupe......The auto company says the watch will hold up to 60 songs or 256 megabytes of other data, like word-processing documents or a PowerPoint presentation. More at the New York Times site (free registration required)... 0 comments Links to this post


Wednesday, June 16, 2004 posted by Geetesh 8:45 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PlanPoint for Microsoft PowerPoint Take-off PlanPoint is a free Microsoft PowerPoint add-on that enables you to show or hide slides in a presentation at specified dates and times. The product is currently a beta version. More info here... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 8:03 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Closing the Office door on Microsoft? See how OpenOffice fares against Microsoft Office. More on the ZDNet UK site... 0 comments Links to this post


Monday, June 14, 2004 posted by Geetesh 9:16 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint and Narration Stumbling blocks to using PowerPoint narration include incompatible sound cards, loose mic cables, multimedia properties wrongly set, and volume settings. Indezine helps you sort them all out. Read my article on the InfoComm site... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 10:16 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	New PowerPlugs: Transitions from CrystalGraphics In addition to cool new 3D effects, PowerPlugs: Transitions V also includes some powerful new features. For example, many of the 3D transition effects in volume V allow you to select your own image or photo to be automatically inserted right into the transition effect. This is a great way to show off your organization's name, product, logo, slogan or photo. More info here... 0 comments Links to this post


Saturday, June 12, 2004 posted by Geetesh 9:36 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Perspector Brings New Dimension to PowerPoint Perspector is a new add-in for PowerPoint that gives it real 3D capabilities. It operates seamlessly with PowerPoint and is easy to use with one-click, a slide containing 2D shapes can be converted into a 3D scene containing real 3D shapes. Read more in this eMediaWire press release... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 12:26 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Ray's File Extractor Often, you end up creating a presentation that contains 50 slides. Then you need to take the 20 most important slides from the presentation and save it to a new presentation. So, what do you do? Many users would delete the slides they don't need and save the remaining slides to a new presentation. Only that things are not so simple - you might end up deleting an important slide and then do worse by overwriting the active presentation by saving the file. If this situation sounds familiar, you need Ray's File Extractor add-in. Let's explore... 0 comments Links to this post


Friday, June 11, 2004 posted by Geetesh 4:06 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Ray's Free File Extractor Add-in for PowerPoint Often, you end up creating a presentation that contains 50 slides. Then you need to take the 20 most important slides from the presentation and save it to a new presentation. So, what do you do? Many users would delete the slides they don't need and save the reamining slides to a new presentation. Only that things are not so simple - you might end up deleting an important slide and then do worse by overwriting the active presentation by saving the file. If this situation sounds familiar, you need Ray Blake's File Extractor add-in. Download it here... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 9:29 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Word of Mouth - The Articulate Blog Word of Mouth is the official blog of Articulate, hosted by Director of Customer Support Gabe Anderson. Lots of good stuff to read. Look here... 0 comments Links to this post


Thursday, June 10, 2004 posted by Geetesh 9:15 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint and SmartDraw In any presentation, visuals play an important role. Well designed visuals can make information easy-to-grasp and understand. On this page, we'll look at how SmartDraw, a drawing application works with PowerPoint to help create quick and effective infographics for presentations. Read more about ways to use SmartDraw within PowerPoint... Also, you can download a free 30-day trial download of SmartDraw here... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 7:08 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Interlink Electronics to Showcase Award-Winning Personal Presentation Products at InfoComm 2004 "There are an estimated 300 million PowerPoint(R)-enabled personal computers worldwide," said Jim Reisteter, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Interlink Electronics, Inc. "To this installed base, 24 million new business laptops will be added this year, effectively defining a global market opportunity for our new family of presentation products. Both the recently introduced RemotePoint(R) Navigator 2.4 and the new RemotePoint Global Presenter were designed using internationally approved 2.4 GHz wireless technology, allowing them to now be marketed throughout the countries of Europe and Asia, as well as in the Americas. Read more... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 7:05 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Qarbon Offers PowerPoint to Flash Authoring Product for $99 "We are very excited about the launch of ViewletPresenter as it represents our expanded focus on products that we believe will appeal to the mainstream business user," said Patrick LeGranche, CEO and chairman of Qarbon. "With ViewletPresenter, anyone can convert their PowerPoint presentations to Flash and publish them quickly and easily on the Internet. And at our introductory price of $99.00, we believe that corporate and education customers will find ViewletPresenter to be a cost-effective solution for their online presentation needs." More info on the Yahoo Finance site... 0 comments Links to this post


Wednesday, June 09, 2004 posted by Geetesh 1:41 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	TechSmith releases SnagIt 7.1 TechSmith announced the release of SnagIt v.7.1 - there are several new improvements including direct external program output. For example, you can automatically open your captured screenshots in Adobe Photoshop or any other image editor with one click. Also new is support for MSN Messenger and profile import/export. Find out what's new in SnagIt 7.1... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 1:34 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	The SmartDraw Education Solution The SmartDraw Education Solution is a new solution for visual instruction, learning, and classroom management. Targeted towards teachers and students, the Education Solution is an add-on package to SmartDraw that includes 50,000 symbols, 3,000 anatomical images, 900 symbols for maps and geography, and hundreds of math symbols. More info at the SmartDraw site... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 8:33 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Top 7 Ways to Succeed in the Business of Speaking How attractive are you as a speaker? No, your looks, but your consistent ability to provide a quality presentation, attract clients, and be irresistibly attractive to meeting planners and speaker bureaus? Below are some useful tips that I learned while owning a national, professional speakers bureau for 13 years. Learn more with Sandra Schrift... 0 comments Links to this post


Tuesday, June 08, 2004 posted by Geetesh 8:56 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Beyond Bullets - A New Blog Cliff Atkinson's new blog makes great reading. As Cliff says: "If you're looking for new ways to use media to help you relate better to other people, you're in the right place!" Visit Beyond Bullets now... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 8:53 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Microsoft Expression PNGs for PowerPoint In this tutorial, we will learn how to export a PNG graphic from Microsoft Expression with an alpha channel that PowerPoint can import. I have used the new Microsoft Expression 3.3 for Macintosh. The PowerPoint version used is PowerPoint X for Macintosh. The same techniques should work with the Windows version. Learn here... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 8:52 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Animation Carbon - Review With the launch of PowerPoint 2002 (and 2003), animation metamorphosed from a simple single click attribute to something much more enriched, and complicated. Designers spent hours mastering the new motion paths - and fine-tuned the timings on multiple animations. After the jaws finished dropping and the wows were over, designers were expected to create a similar animation effect for another presentation element! You get the pattern - hours upon hours were being spent on recreating the same effects. It was often felt that it would be great if PowerPoint had a library feature where all such animation procedures could be stored - and then imparted to objects with a single click. Our product for review, Animation Carbon fills that void. Let's explore... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 8:48 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	An Interview with Michael Doyle Michael Doyle is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Of Impatica. He has founded several successful high technology companies including Computer Innovations which became Canada’s largest personal computer sales and service organization with revenues of over one billion dollars annually. Mr. Doyle served as a member of Canada’s National Advisory Council on the Information Highway and on the Ministers Council on Educational Technology. He started his career as a Systems Engineer with IBM Corporation and co-founded Impatica in 1998. In this interview, Michael talks about Impatica, online rich media and PowerPoint... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 8:05 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Motion Path End Position This free add-in from Shyam Pillai creates duplicate shapes at the position where each of the selected motion path animation ends. Using this tool you can quickly determine the end position of the animation at design time.Download it here... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 1:07 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Macintosh edition of Office has better business-friendly tools The latest Macintosh edition of Microsoft Office does text, e-mail, spreadsheet and presentation tasks with aplomb. Then again, so did the previous versions. Read more at the STLtoday.co site... 0 comments Links to this post


Sunday, June 06, 2004 posted by Geetesh 12:19 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Clean the Screen After I clean my glasses, I am always amazed by how much more clearly I can see. The same is true of the computer screen. In everyday use, it accumulates dust, dirt, and fingerprints. An occasional cleaning is definitely in order. The correct way to clean your monitor depends on the type of monitor you have. Here are a few tips for the two most common types of computer screens. Learn more... 0 comments Links to this post


Saturday, June 05, 2004 posted by Geetesh 10:24 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Microsoft Expression Microsoft Expression is available as a free download now, for both the Mac and Windows. For those who don't know, Expression, a product acquired from Creature House is in the same class as CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand. It's also Microsoft's first product that exports to Flash SWF. At over 50 mb, it is a big download. More info here... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 10:22 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Animation Carbon How many times have you wished that there was tool which would simply copy animations from one shape to another shape? Here is the answer to your wishes. The one of most time consuming aspect while designing is creating animations. It is frustrating that PowerPoint can't transfer animations. That's where Animation Carbon steps in. Animation Carbon can transfer animation from any shape on the slide to another shape or from one of animation libraries you create. Not only that, you can copy animations from a shape and store it for reuse in an animation library. Learn more here... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 9:49 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Wilbers: Making your point more powerful As a presenter, I like using PowerPoint. Although I don't like having the slides in a fixed sequence, and I worry that dimming the lights will give my audience unneeded assistance in falling asleep, I do like the way PowerPoint enables me to emphasize and illustrate my points with highlighted text, graphs and photos. There's something about those big, fat, color letters that makes the words more interesting. Read more about what Stephen Wilbers has to say... 0 comments Links to this post


Thursday, June 03, 2004 posted by Geetesh 8:24 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Wrapping Images in PowerPoint Glen Millar shows you how you can create a wraparound style shape in PowerPoint. Here's the tutorial... 0 comments Links to this post


posted by Geetesh 3:18 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Windows Media Player 10 Technical Beta Microsoft is offering a free download of Windows Media Player 10 Technical Beta. This is being refined to provide a great experience for discovering, playing, and taking your digital media anywhere. Still in the early stages, this technical beta lays the groundwork for an end-to-end digital media experience. More info and download here...