Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
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Monday, May 29, 2006
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2:20 PM
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These are free Cell Phone/Mobile Phone PowerPoint templates created by the designers at Indezine.com. Just click the thumbnail for any of the designs to get to its download page.
 
 
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These are free Father's Day PowerPoint templates created by the designers at Indezine.com. Just click the thumbnail for any of the designs to get to its download page.
 
 
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The new ezine issue has now been issued. There are two free giveaways:
- Spirograph PowerPoint Templates from ppted
- Grayscale Printing PowerPoint add-in from Jim Gordon
To enter, you just need to fill in a form.
There's also coverage on Freepath, a new presentation playlist product as well as a convenient listing of all the new stuff on Indezine.com
Read the ezine here...
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Today's free template is Orange Butter - download here...
 
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Sunday, May 28, 2006
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Today's free template is Canvas Drape - download here...
 
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Saturday, May 27, 2006
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Jeff Van West puts his get-the-job-done philosophy into practice in training movies on Effective Presentations which is available online from Lynda.com. Other movies cover Home and Small Office Networking and Illustrator CS2. He is also the author of several books, articles, and custom training curricula for software, hardware, and aircraft systems.
In this interview, Jeff discusses PowerPoint experiences, design and improvement ideas...
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Today's free template is Starburst Keyboard--download here...
 
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posted by Geetesh
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T-Mobile now makes it possible for its subscribers to leave their laptops behind them for presentations by making available to them Impatica ShowMate, the first and only presentation solution that allows users to project PowerPoint presentations directly from their BlackBerry wireless devices. ShowMate is a pocket-sized hardware device weighing less than nine ounces and supports all PowerPoint presentation features including rich text, images, charts, graphs, animations and slide transition effects.
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posted by Geetesh
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Microsoft has quietly added a high-end retail edition of Office 2007 to the suite's stable, the company confirmed Thursday. The new Office Ultimate -- the name identical to Vista's Ultimate edition -- will be priced at $679 in retail channels, and will include all the applications scheduled to ship within Office Enterprise 2007, the top-end corporation version to be available only to volume license customers. Ultimate will include core applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, but will also offer Access, Publisher, InfoPath, Groove, OneNote, and integrated functions such as content management, electronic forms, and rights management. All of those pieces are also in the Enterprise bundle.
More on the InformationWeek site...
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Friday, May 26, 2006
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Thursday, May 25, 2006
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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Austin Myers, a PowerPoint MVP is a good friend--and he created the wonderful PFCMedia add-in for PowerPoint that makes inserting media files in PowerPoint so easy. And now he has released PFCExpress, his new PowerPoint add-in that makes it so simple for you to email your PowerPoints. The add-in takes care of everything--from links, to file format, attachments, and the actual mailing.
I did a small interview with Austin discussing PFCExpress:
Geetesh: Tell us more about yourself and the PFC range of PowerPoint add-ins.
Austin: Having been a PowerPoint MVP and designing presentations professionally since 95, I've seen just how difficult using the ever increasing types, and sources, of media within PowerPoint can be. With the success we enjoyed with PFCMedia and the feedback from our customers we made the decision to tackle a number of additional media related problems in PowerPoint. With customer feedback it became clear that additional features were both wanted
needed, so many in fact we felt we needed to provide them with multiple add-ins as opposed to building a single large and expensive add in.
By creating multiple add ins with a low price point we hope to meet the specific needs of the customer at a reasonable cost. Value is always the driving force as we design and build our PowerPoint add ins. Hey, I am a user too and I always want a great value for my hard earned dollars, I have to believe other users feel the same.
Geetesh: What prompted you to create PFCExpress - and tell us more about typical usage scenarios.
Austin: The concept of PFCExpress came about from user requests and input from the PowerPoint newsgroup. Because of the way PowerPoint links to media files, and the fragility of those links, users were experiencing very high failure rates when they emailed their presentations. PowerPoint also has a limitation in that should the path to the folder containing the presentation and media be too long the media would fail. PFCExpress was designed to
overcome these issues.
Typically users don't understand how PowerPoint links to media files or how important it is to create the presentation in a manner that secures the links. As an example, if I create a presentation on my computer and save it to "C:\..My Documents", and have a video that is linked from "C:..\MyDocuments\My Videos" it will play fine on my machine but when sent
to another machine it will fail. The reason of course is that the path is different on the other machine and PowerPoint doesn't know where to find the media. In cases where the user follows the guideline to place the video in the same folder containing the presentation before inserting it on the slide we still run into the issue that "MyDocuments" is different on every PC and PowerPoint may still fail to play the media properly.
Assuming a user creates a presentation and includes a media file PFCExpress examines the presentation for media content and creates a temporary copy of both the presentation and media. With a little bit of programming wizardry the path/link to the media is destroyed and in it's place we create what we call a "pathless" link. Once completed the presentation and the media file are combined into a single compressed file (zip) and made ready to email. From within PowerPoint you simply tell it who the recipient is, include any text in the body of the email and if desired run a spell checker on it. From there a simple click on "Send as email" and your done. PFCExpress offers you the option of sending it as a normal (*.ppt) PowerPoint file for editing or as a playable (*.pps) file so the person receiving it simply starts it and it plays.
One other feature we included addresses the issue of an email and attachment being too large. Almost all ISPs have a size limit and as media tends to create large files and the email will not be delivered. PFCExpress will warn the user if they have exceeded the size limit and offers to save the compressed zip file for them so it may be placed on a web site or FTP server. It also lists several sites that are free to use for sending large email and attachments and instructions on how to use them.
Our goal here was simple, when you email your presentation containing media, it will "Play For Certain" on the receiving Windows PC. Or at least as certain as we can possibly make it.
Download a free trial of PFCExpress from the PFCMedia site...
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posted by Geetesh
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PowerPoint 2007 Beta 2
PowerPoint is the ubiquitous tool business people and students use to create multimedia presentations. The 2007 updates are supposed to make it less of a hassle to dress up slide shows. Most of PowerPoint's features are available as icons in a tabbed ribbon atop the interface. And dynamic, visual galleries let you see a change before finalizing it.
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Big Beta Day for Microsoft
Microsoft went beta crazy today and has released Windows Vista Beta 2 and a new build of Longhorn Server to testers and has made 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 available to anyone who wants to take it for a spin. Office 2007, oh excuse me, 2007 Microsoft Office system (yes, that's the official name - small "s" and all) is another story. I've been working with the beta extensively, especially with Outlook and OneNote, er… 2007 Microsoft Office Outlook and 2007 Microsoft Office OneNote… and they are close to daily use quality if you're brave and plenty stable enough to install on a test bed system if you're cautious (which is almost always a good thing).
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Microsoft launches Office 2007 Public Beta
Microsoft has released a public beta of Office 2007, making the forthcoming productivity suite available to a broader group of testers. The first release was limited to a group of about 10,000 customers and partners, and the final product is slated for release in early 2007. The beta is available as a download to the general public, but will expire on 31 January 2007.
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posted by Geetesh
2:16 PM
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
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Microsoft MVP Jim Gordon has announced his new grayscale printing add-in for PowerPoint that works with both Windows and Mac versions of PowerPoint.
This is what Jim says about his add-in:
"Sending grayscale output to printers can significantly reduce printing times for black and white laser printers. Some color objects don’t display or print as expected in grayscale. GrayScaleTool has grayscale controls for adjusting grayscale properties readily available. The add-in may benefit large organizations that share networked laser printers. GrayScaleTool is for people who often print GrayScale (saves on color ink), or who want to do special effects with grayscale printing."
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posted by Geetesh
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Monday, May 22, 2006
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Shuttling between the Internet and his computer slide show, Manuel Duarte put the finishing touches on his research project. He outlined his main findings in bullet points, and dragged images and audio files from the Web to liven things up. Duarte wasn’t polishing his PowerPoint presentation for a boardroom sales pitch; it was for his fourth-grade class in Brockton. PowerPoint — once the staple of business conferences and corporate meetings — is lending a high-tech edge to grade-school classrooms across the state. The days of construction paper and poster board projects have been replaced by computer-generated images and laser pointers.
Read more on the Boston Globe site...
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posted by Geetesh
10:10 AM
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Today's free template is Blue Lemon - download here...
 
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Saturday, May 20, 2006
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Today's free template is Greenboyant - download here...
 
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Friday, May 19, 2006
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Today's free template is Solar Eclipse - download here...
 
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
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This is actually the same review that I posted on Amazon.com--just wanted to let you know since I don't have a star rating system on this blog!
If I had gone strictly with the title of the book, I might have not given this one 5 stars at all. It's not about creating workflows between Adobe applications and doing projects. More than that, this book is about experiences from the authors about how one can do small tasks more efficiently by using the CS2 applications together. Think of this as a book that's left next to your desk that you can pick up and read when you have 5 minutes to spare. That's the way this book will benefit. So if you think that the term "workflow' in the title means that you're going to do great things, then you got it all wrong. This book is about those little things that make great differences.
See this book on Amazon.com...
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posted by Geetesh
8:22 AM
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Today's free template is Swirly Corner - download here...
 
Pastel blue shades make this PowerPoint template very appealing--it should work with foreground slide elements of all colors. Only the title slide has the swirls; the other slides have a plain background with diagonal checks.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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As President of Grass Roots Software, Lou Drous' primary role is in securing partnerships to advance the use of Grass Roots Software technology in a broad range of vertical markets and business to business solutions. Grass Roots Software creates Freepath, a new tool that creates presentation playlists from Powerpoint presentations, and several other document and media file formats.
In this interview, Lou discusses Freepath, PowerPoint, and non-linear presentations... Categories: interviews, powerpoint, freepath, personalities
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posted by Geetesh
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This book extract is from Beyond Bullet Points, a book that teaches how you can use PowerPoint to tell visual stories without using bullet points. Author Cliff Atkinson uses his three-step approach to help readers discover how they can combine the tenets of classic storytelling with the power of projected media to create a rich, engaging experience.
Read the excerpts here...
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posted by Geetesh
10:05 AM
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Have you wondered why some pictures show jaggies on the edges when they are resized larger. Or why some pictures don't show jaggies when enlarged? Those jaggies have more to do with the type of graphics you're resizing--and broadly speaking, there are two types of computer graphics--bitmaps and vector graphics. If you use graphics often, understanding these two formats and how they are created is essential.
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posted by Geetesh
10:00 AM
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Today's free template is Cheesy Blues - download here...
 
Cheesy Blues is a simple design that will go well with most presentations, although corporate users might find it a little cheesy!
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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10:42 AM
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Whatever be the numbers or skills, no one disagrees with the fact that many PowerPoint presentations do fail to leave an impact on the audience. And that's exactly what Jeff Van West tackles in his Effective Presentations tutorial that I'm reviewing. Effective Presentations is a movie-based tutorial from Lynda.com that's available both on CD-ROM and an online movie library.
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