Mar 13, 08 - liteRecorder 1.10

Does it happen that you want to record a sound that plays on your system -- maybe a Skype conversation, or something off YouTube. Or maybe you just want to record something from a streaming radio, live podcast, or even a webcast that you are delivering. It's easy to do this with liteRecorder, our review product.

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Mar 12, 08 - liteCAM 2.2

Recording onscreen computer activity is so much easier nowadays -- however, with the dozens of product options available, each product has to provide a compelling advantage and improved options than other similar applications. Our review product, liteCam does have some features that are unique to the program.

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Feb 27, 08 - Where is PowerPoint? -- Locate PowerPoint 2007

You cannot locate PowerPoint 2007 on your computer? Yes, I know this happens -- follow these step to find out if you have PowerPoint 2007 in your system or not. Since PowerPoint 2007 only installs on Windows XP and Windows Vista, we provide instructions for both OSs

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Feb 19, 08 - Working with Slide Numbers

Most of the time, slide numbers are not visible on the slide although many users like to enable them. Learn how to add slide numbers, get to troubleshooting if you can't get to see them -- and learn some tricks.

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Feb 16, 08 - Animated Photo Album

While PowerPoint includes a very capable Photo Album feature that lets you quickly insert multiple photos in a presentation, you still need to add the animations yourself -- also there's no navigation between viewing pictures and slides. Our review product is a PowerPoint add-in that simplifies the process of inserting pictures with animation and navigation.

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Feb 14, 08 - Articulate Quizmaker: Conversation with Gabe Anderson

Gabe Anderson takes care of support and community initiatives at Articulate, a provider of rich media products used for e-learning. In this conversation, Gabe discusses Articulate Quizmaker, how you can create quizzes, and how Quizmaker integrates with Articulate's other products.

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Feb 12, 08 - novaPDF Pro Server

PDF creation is so much easier these days -- many programs including the new Office 2007 include PDF output -- and there are several free PDF creators available. So why would you want to buy a copy of novaPDF, our review product -- and if you really wanted to spend some money, why choose novaPDF rather than Adobe's Acrobat Professional?

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Feb 8, 08 - Wildform Flair

There's a plethora of PowerPoint to Flash conversion software out there but not all of them do a faithful conversion -- our product for review today, Wildform Flair also takes a different approach by converting the PowerPoint file to an editable Flash based file that can be fine-tuned and customized as required so that you end up with a Flash output that closely mimics (or adds to) the original PowerPoint presentation.

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Feb 8, 08 - Office Online Web Comics: Conversation with David Salaguinto

David Salaguinto is a writer on the Office User Assistance team at Microsoft who uses comics he creates to have fun, and to connect with readers -- see his Office Online Web Comic blog. In this conversation, David discusses how he got started, and where he gets inspiration from.

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Feb 5, 08 - Backup4all Professional 3

Whever you review a backup software, it's the norm to start with saying that backup is something you should always do unless you want to burn your fingers by losing all your precious data. Well, since you are reading a review for a backup software, you already know that (or have already burnt your fingers!) -- so let us discuss how Backup4all is different from the hundreds of other backup software.

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Feb 5, 08 - Voice Effect Marshalling

Professional voice-over talents are costly and can delay production, audio editing of voice-over recordings is difficult, and synchronizing voice-overs with animations by time-line editing is time- consuming. The solution is Voice Effect Marshalling (VEM), a new technology that synchronizes voice-overs automatically, handles voice-over changes easily, and makes it simple to mix two or more voices on a slide.

Joel Harband explains more here...

Feb 1, 08 - Tanida Demo Builder 6 Professional

There are so many tutorials online that now show you a screen recording rather than a textual series of steps. However easy it might be to view such recorded content, it's nowhere as simple to create them in the first place -- our review product Demo Builder aims to make that process simpler -- this review will focus on what it does different than other similar programs, and how it performs overall.

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Jan 29, 08 - Slide Executive Professional

There are billions of slides in the presentation sphere -- slides lost and mixed up in a chaotic land where it's easier to spend to a few hours to create new slides than search and reuse the ones that cannot be found. Our review product Slide Executive Professional may be all the help you need.

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Jan 28, 08 - SlideManager

There are essentially three PowerPoint related tasks: you either create, give, or archive/share presentations. You know that keeping one or all three of these tasks organized is not a task that can be described as easy as pie. SlideManager is a slide management software that can assist you in each of the three task scenarios -- it lets you maintain an online presentation library that is cataloged down to the individual slide level.

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Jan 24, 08 - PivotTable in PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel has a cool data visualization option called PivotTables, which allows you to view and work with your data in an intuitive and interactive style while leaving your actual data unchanged -- we can use this visualization tool within a Microsoft PowerPoint slide to display and also interactively manipulate data while a presentation is running.

Learn more with Naresh Nichani and Brian Reilly...

Jan 23, 08 - The Ric Bretschneider Interview

Ric Bretschneider is Senior Program Manager for PowerPoint at Microsoft and he celebrates fifteen years as a Microsoft veteran, having joined the company in 1993 to work on PowerPoint for Windows and the Macintosh. Over the years, he's contributed to the design and direction of the application, and been awarded three PowerPoint related patents. In this interview, Ric discusses his fifteen years, his involvement with PowerPoint, the MVPs, his podcasts, and how PowerPoint was named.

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Jan 22, 08 - NXPowerLite 3.5: Conversation with Tommy Powell

Tommy Powell is from Neuxpower, a software solutions company based in the UK. Neuxpower custom-build both stand-alone applications and add-ins that enhance existing software such as Microsoft Office. Their commercially-available PowerPoint optimizer, NXPowerLite , radically reduces the size of PowerPoint files.

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Jan 22, 08 - PowerFinish Templates Volume 6

So why do people make presentations that look the same? That's typically because they use the designs that are built inside PowerPoint. PowerFinish Volume 6 is a set of 50 PowerPoint design templates that comprise an assortment of abstracts, geometry, and strokes with a painted canvas look. It is very contemporary, and the entire collection is available in both 4:3 standard and 16:9 HD sizes.

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Jan 19, 08 - PowerPoint 2007 Makeover Kit: Conversation with Echo Swinford

Echo Swinford is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional). When she's not working on new media, she is answering almost all the questions on the PowerPoint newsgroup. Echo is also the co-author of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit, published by Que. The other author of this book is the owner of this blog -- so I thought it will be fun for one author to interview the other!

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Jan 18, 08 - Using Excel in PowerPoint

Although you can copy and paste an Excel sheet inside a PowerPoint slide, there's so much more you can do to make the entire Excel-in-PowerPoint thing more useful. Microsoft Excel possesses an amazingly intuitive and powerful calculation engine -- and tons of formulae. We would like to leverage these capabilities of Excel while running a PowerPoint slide show.

Learn more with Naresh Nichani and Brian Reilly...

Jan 18, 08 - Design for the Close: Interactive Sales Presentations

The linear presentation approach has gone fundamentally unchallenged until recent years when something changed. It wasn’t the presenters (they actually liked the straight-forward simplicity) and it wasn’t really the software. It was certain audience types and we had better pay attention.

Jim Endicott explains more here...

Jan 16, 08 - ShortcutTools 2.0

If you create your share of PowerPoint presentations, you know that you end up doing repetitive tasks all the time -- for the most common commands such as aligning, distributing, grouping, or resizing objects, you have to access the menus and toolbars hundreds of times. PowerPoint ShortcutTools 2.0, the product I am reviewing is a PowerPoint add-in which allows users to set defined keyboard shortcuts for specific PowerPoint commands.

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Jan 11, 08 - The Jim Endicott Interview

Jim Endicott is a nationally-recognized consultant, designer, speaker specializing in professional presentation messaging, design and delivery. In this interview, Jim discusses the implications of changes in this decade, the influence of technology, the sophistication of the marketplace, and the utilization of potential.

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Jan 10, 08 - Knoll Light Factory 3

Knoll Light Factory 3.0 is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows you to design photo-realistic and enhanced lighting effects. This Photoshop plug-in adds flares, sparkles, rays, and several other natural lighting types to any image.

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Jan 8, 08 - Opazity

The new versions of PowerPoint seem to have everything apart from the kitchen sink -- but yet, it's amazing too see vendors create small add-ins that provide an impressive capability that PowerPoint lacks. Opazity is one such add-in that creates opaque effects inside PowerPoint -- and if you are wondering what's so great about an opaque effect in PowerPoint, then read on.

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Jan 2, 08 - A Year with PowerPoint

Let me show you how you can learn more this year by grasping and understanding a little at a time. Call this a new year resolution, or just a time table -- let us see how far we can move with this monthly schedule.

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Jan 2, 08 - balesio ALLCapture 3.0

ALLCapture is a screen recording program that also lets you edit and distribute screencasts, demos, tutorials, software simulations and videos. In this review, we'll look at version 3.0 of ALLCapture Enterprise version.

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Jan 2, 08 - Book Excerpt: Cutting Edge PowerPoint 2007 For Dummies

Get ready to add punch and pizzazz to your presentations and wow your audience using the latest PowerPoint techniques. This friendly book/CD-ROM combo covers all of the new features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, including interface changes, presentation themes, multimedia, the Slide Library, and more.

Read a free chapter here...

Dec 27, 07 - AKVIS Frame Suite 2.6

AKVIS Frame Suite 2.6 is a Photoshop compatible plug-in with an impressive collection of frames, edge and texture effects suitable for the decoration of photos and other image compositions.

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Dec 18, 07 - Jupitertunes: Conversation with Mike Bielenberg

Mike Bielenberg is general manager/musician for Jupitertunes, a division of Jupitermedia Corp. He is the original founder of BBM.net, an online music library created for Flash, PowerPoint and web professionals. In this conversation, Mike discusses which type of music works best in PowerPoint presentations.

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Dec 10, 07 - Sho-Q: Conversation with Henk de Groot

Henk de Groot has been very involved in display and presentation technology. In the last 17 years, he has held various management positions at Tektronix in Europe and the USA; he led the European operation of InFocus projectors right from its startup for 9 years. In this conversation, Henk discusses Sho-Q, a product that helps presenters deliver a seamless presentation -- especially in a multi-presentation environment..

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Dec 10, 07 - AKVIS LightShop 2

AKVIS LightShop 2 is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows you to create fascinating light effects such as lightning, fireworks, halos, glows, flares, etc. The settings and tweaks within LightShop provide an infinite number of light effects.

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Dec 10, 07 - Jigsaw Maker

Jigsaws can add a whole new level of interest to a PowerPoint slide, especially if the jigsaw shapes are cleverly placed and animated. However easy it might be to create something like this from scratch in PowerPoint, it cannot be as easy as Jigsaw Maker, the PowerPoint add-in that I am reviewing today.

Read the review here...

Nov 29, 07 - Leverage Technology to Enhance Your Message

Unless you're a riveting $100,000/day nationally recognized keynote speaker, you've had to try to balance presentation delivery with presenting technology.

Jim Endicott explains more here...

Nov 29, 07 - Book Excerpt: PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit

This book, authored by Geetesh Bajaj and Echo Swinford is not as much about reading as it is about seeing and doing! That’s why it's called a kit. Full-color pages show you exactly how your slides will look as you follow the makeover steps, and all presentations in various stages of the makeover are on the accompanying CD.

Read a free chapter here...

Nov 29, 07 - Puzzle Pictures in PowerPoint

This tutorial shows you how you can create a full slide puzzle effect in PowerPoint. Although I use PowerPoint 2007 in this tutorial, the technique works the same way all the way back to PowerPoint 97.

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Nov 21, 07 - Perspector 4

PowerPoint makes it easy to insert pictures, shapes, text, and multimedia -- and the new PowerPoint 2007 adds ample improvements by way of effects and themes. Yet PowerPoint's 3D abilities can still benefit from add-ins like Perspector.

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Nov 21, 07 - Perspector 4: Conversation with George McCaskill

George McCaskill was a founding investor in Perspector and currently enjoys the role of Chief Technology Officer. In this conversation, George talks about the new features in Perspector 4.0 and some case studies.

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Nov 19, 07 - No Points for Second Place

However, have you seen this all fall apart within just a few minutes for some unprepared individual? I’m sure you have, and it was probably during this individual’s presentation. Don’t be the next victim. How you summarize your work will make or break you. There are no points for second place.

Scott Schwertly explains more here...

Nov 17, 07 - PowerPlugs Ultimate Combo 2007

Presentations with pizzazz require a lot more than slides with text content. To make the slides look relevant, interesting, and coordinated is almost as important as the content these days -- but probably something that's even more important is that your presentations need to look different and stand out in the crowd. The addition of visual content and rich media can help, and PowerPlugs: Ultimate Combo 2007, the product I am reviewing is a one stop solution to resolving that problem.

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Nov 14, 07 - Step Forward

No one is born a great speaker. Period. Granted, people are blessed with certain strengths in the area of public speaking, but every great speaker has worked hard to become the influential person or legacy that we see.

Scott Schwertly explains more here...

Nov 16, 07 - PowerPoint Live 2007 Pictures

This page shows some pictures of the just concluded PowerPoint Live event at New Orleans.

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Nov 15, 07 - Indezine Freepath Giveaway

When Freepath cost $249, we called it a steal -- now that we are partnering with the Freepath folks and giving it away free, we'll ask you to run and get this before we change our mind!

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Nov 15, 07 - Picture Spirographs in PowerPoint

This tutorial is a variation of the spirograph tutorial that I did earlier. In this tutorial, you'll learn to create fascinating spirograph style graphics with pictures rather than shapes.

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Nov 14, 07 - The Brown Bag: A Lesson about Presentation Delivery and Perception

Keep your message concise. Keep it clear. Keep it simple. And most importantly, be yourself. People will judge you. That is the fact of life. However, let them judge you for who you really are – not a poser, but an authentic voice.

Scott Schwertly explains more here...

Nov 7, 07 - Artlandia SymmetryShop 2

Adobe Photoshop is no specialized application to create symmetrical patterns unless you want to slave hours creating repetitive layers, and aligning them carefully with the skill of a mathematician. Artlandia SymmetryShop 2 is a cool Photoshop plug-in that creates symmetrical patterns in no time.

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Nov 6, 07 - Spirographs in PowerPoint

While it is possible to create spirographs in any version of PowerPoint, it is much easier and quicker to do so in PowerPoint 2007, thanks to the new Selection and Visibility task pane and the non-modal dialog boxes.

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Nov 5, 07 - Text with Bites

It’s easy to create text with bites in PowerPoint, although it is a little time consuming. That’s not a big issue since you’ll want to use this effect sparingly as a design style for some titles or text boxes only.

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Oct 26, 07 - ALLCapture Addins

This review is about two addins for ALLCapture: PanelStudio and SkinStudio. ALLCapture is a program that allows you to record the entire screen, or just parts of it, and create a tutorial or movie out of it. Both PanelStudio and SkinStudio are included in the Enterprise version of ALLCapture.

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Oct 12, 07 - Signage24

Signage24 is a hosting service through which you can distribute your presentations as digital signage worldwide -- almost like an automated billboard. This is a huge thing -- and this sort of service can change the way digital signage is pushed to multiple output streams.

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Oct 6, 07 - The Katherine Murray Interview

Katherine Murray is the author of more than 50 books on technology and writes articles for various Microsoft sites. She also writes and edits the Microsoft Mindshare newsletter and contributes articles to CNET's TechRepublic. In addition to books and articles, Katherine publishes BlogOffice, a blog sharing tips and ideas related to various versions of Microsoft Office.

Read the interview here...

Oct 3, 07 - Repair Associations in Windows XP

You are sure you have PowerPoint installed on your system, and now your PowerPoint files don't open in PowerPoint when you double-click them? Or maybe they open in some other application? This might indicate that your PowerPoint file associations have gone wrong..

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Oct 1, 07 - The James Gordon Interview

James Gordon has been a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 2000 and can be found in the Microsoft Macintosh newsgroups for Excel, PowerPoint and Word. PowerPoint users will recognize Jim as the creator of InsertPicture add-in for Macintosh. At SUNY University at Buffalo, Jim works helping faculty, staff and instructors with a wide array of technologies for higher education.

Read the interview here...

Oct 1, 07 - FlashPoint

There used to be a time when PowerPoint to Flash converters were so expensive, and few are far in between. Some of those products were in fact hosted on the servers of the program vendors. Nowadays, these products work on your desktop. FlashPoint is one such application -- and in this review I am going to see how the application performs using our new PowerPoint to Flash benchmark presentation.

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Sep 20, 07 - SmartDraw 2008

Although PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office applications include many info-graphic options, you should look at the new SmartDraw 2008 if you want more business graphic types and possibilities.

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Sep 19, 07 - AKVIS Frame Suite 2.5

AKVIS Frame Suite 2.5 is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that provides umpteen frames, edge effects, and textures. All these can be customized -- and you can then create your own presets and libraries.

Read the review here...

Sep 1, 07 - The Johnson Yang Interview

Johnson Yang is General Manager at NewSoft America Inc., a company engaged in creating imaging, multimedia and Internet-related software.techniques, as well as wireless projection transmitting hardware. Recently, NewSoft unveiled the WMS 100 and WMS 200 wireless projection transmitting services that let you connect your laptop to a projector without wires.

Read the interview here...

Aug 23, 07 - Spresent

Spresent is no match for PowerPoint's capabilities but it does let you create Flash presentations quite easily -- its own capabilities set it in a product category different from PowerPoint. In this review, we'll explore Spresent, and show you how you can easily create Spresent presentations, and share them.

Aug 22, 07 - Converting WMA to WAV

You can use any of the audio converters available (and trust me, there are so many of them – just search Google!) to convert your WMA files to WAV. In this tutorial, we are using Switch Plus, a fine audio converting program.

Aug 17, 07 - Primatte
Chromakey 3

Primatte Chromakey 3, is a Photoshop compatible plug-in which helps create a mask for a solid plane background. Chromakey allows the user to create a mask and replace the background with some other background.