Oct 6, 06 - WildPresenter Lite
In a separate review, I looked at WildPresenter
which is actually a suite of applications that includes
capture, an editing environment, and PowerPoint to
Flash export options. Wildform, the company that
creates WildPresenter recognizes that many users
don't need all those options -- so they created a
scaled down version called WildPresenter Lite that
limits the abilities to the editing environment only
-- so that you can create your own content with shapes,
text, images, etc.
Read
the full review here...
Oct 3, 06 - Effective Presentations Using The Latest
Technology - Preparation
 Mary
Waldera explains how important preparation is to pulling
off a successful meeting. If you find yourself involved
in an all day long meeting or a conference that lasts
several days with multiple speakers in a large venue
setting, or even if you have a few speakers at client
meeting, there are several things you can do to prepare
for and equipment you can use to pull off a professional,
informative, and well-executed presentation.
Read more
here...
Sep 12, 06 - Cinematize
Cinematize is a product that walks you through extracting
movie clips from a DVD -- it then saves those extracts
into different movie file formats that are PowerPoint
friendly.
Read
more here...
Sep 9, 06 - AKVIS Enhancer
Enhancer is a Photoshop plug-in from
AKVIS that enhances your images with one click. It
does this feat by detecting details from underexposed,
overexposed and mid tone areas of an image.
Learn
more here...
Sep 9, 06 - AKVIS Sketch
AKVIS Sketch is a plug-in for Photoshop or any image
editor from Akvis -- the plug-in converts the selected
image into a realistic black & white or color sketch
-- or even a watercolor painting.
Learn
more here...
Sep 6, 06 - Rich Chart Live
Many programs allow you to create charts that you
can insert in PowerPoint -- but what if your charting
expert, boss, or publicist wants you to make very important
changes at the last minute? That's certainly not easy
-- especially if you don't have access to the program
that you used to create it. Luckily, Rich Chart Live
-- the product we are reviewing today can help.
Learn
more here...
Sep 4, 06 - Insert Picture
You can either insert pictures on PowerPoint slides,
or link them -- either way, you can see the pictures
on the slide. Once inside PowerPoint, pictures can
be formatted, tweaked, and animated like any other
PowerPoint object.
Learn
more here...
Sep 4, 06 - FlashPaper Documents in PowerPoint
Look at Adobe's FlashPaper program that allows you
to print anything to a Flash SWF file -- then insert
those Flash SWFs inside PowerPoint slides. Since these
are embedded within the slide, there are no warning
dialog boxes -- and you can even scroll, zoom, and
pan these documents!
Learn
more here...
Sep 4, 06 - Photoshop Gradients with Difference Mode
Photoshop gradients are so much more than colors blending
into each other -- they are an amazing tool that can
help you create some quick and beautiful backgrounds.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can create these
backgrounds.
Learn
more...
Sep 1, 06 - PowerPoint Ezine 70
Giveaways and More
Capture v2 Promo
Formatting Embedded Excel
Advanced Graphics for PowerPoint
News and Happenings
Read
more...
Aug 31, 06 - The Don Brittain Interview
 Don
Brittain is CEO and a founder of Instant
Effects, a California company that develops software
to visually enhance presentations, communications,
and collaboration. Don has a personal interest in
bringing the power of interactive computing and visual
communication into mainstream use. In this interview,
he discusses OficeFX and PowerPoint.
Read
the interview here...
Aug 30, 06 - PowerPoint User: Joachim Fritze
 Joachim
Fritze was born and grew up in nothern Germany.
He is a chemist by profession with twenty years of
experience in the sales and marketing of dentistry
stuff. An avid PowerPoint user for almost a decade,
Joachim churns up PowerPoint presentation all the
time and loves to use Perspector, the 3D add-in for
PowerPoint.
Read
on to learn more...
Aug 29, 06 - TurboDemo
No amount of words can explain what a screenshot or
a video capture of an onscreen activity can do since
this is essentially showing to an audience how a task
can be performed -- TurboDemo, the program being reviewed
on this page allows you to do all sorts of still and
video captures -- and then create tutorials and demos
which can be output to various formats.
Read
on to learn more...
Aug 25, 06 - FlashSpring Pro
To buy a product that converts PowerPoint presentations
to Flash SWFs is no longer an easy decision to make
-- what with twenty-plus offerings out there! And since
each of these applications has something different
(and seemingly better) than the other, this decision
can be downright confusing. FlashSpring Pro is one
such application -- what does it do different, how
does it perform, and what is my opinion?
Read
on to learn more...
Aug 23, 06 - Ovation
Presentations often fail to leave an impact on the
audience not because of the content but because all
presentations look so similar and predictable. That's
where Ovation can make a difference -- instead of redoing
the presentation all over again, you can use Ovation
to enhance your existing presentations into great looking
productions -- this review will explore if Ovation
lives up to that promise.
Read
the full review...
Aug 23, 06 - Advanced Graphics for PowerPoint
 If
you have been backstage at just about any corporate
event these days, you will have noticed the impressive
array of audio visual (AV) technology and personnel
that’s assembled......by putting the entire solution
onto one standard PC running the latest graphics display
hardware; authoring and editing it with the familiar
workflow of PowerPoint®; and delivering it with
a PowerPoint plug-in called OfficeFX Professional.
Read more
here...
Aug 22, 06 - Rich Chart Builder
Probably the only thing more boring than text-filled
slides is to endure a series of slides with figures
in tables -- something that looks like a screenshot
of an Excel spreadsheet! .... And since PowerPoint's
version of animated charts are so passé, you
might want to create your charts in another program
and then bring them inside PowerPoint -- Rich Chart
Builder, the product I am reviewing can help.
Read
the full review...
Aug 14, 06 - The Johan Rosenquist Interview
 Johan
Rosenquist is the founder of w2solutions,
a software innovation company. To the PowerPoint
community, he brings experience from the Telecom
world via the HeadsetPresenter application. In this
interview, Johan discusses Headset Presenter, Bluetooth,
and PowerPoint.
Read
the interview here...
Aug 14, 06 - ActiveSlide Thunder
Most of the time, any click while a PowerPoint slide
is playing results in the next animation or the next
slide. ActiveSlide Thunder gets around that limitation
by using Flash SWF movies inserted in PowerPoint to
offer interactivity and animation at the same time.
Read
the full review...
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Aug 11, 06 - The Christopher Peri
Interview
 Dr.
Christopher Peri has his credentials in
architecture, and delves into methods that faciliate
designers and engineers to network in real-time.
He is the CTO at Simulat, Inc. where he leads development
of Vyew, an interactive browser-based collaborative
workspace. In this interview, Christopher discusses
Vyew, PowerPoint integration and more.
Read
the interview here...
Aug 7, 06 - Formatting Embedded Excel Sheets
Learn how you can embed and format Excel content inside
PowerPoint.
Learn
here...
Aug 4, 06 - PowerPoint Ezine 69
Giveaways and More
Learn PowerPoint
Video Backgrounds
WildPresenter
Conversations & Interviews
Read
more...
Aug 4, 2006 - The Daniel Park Interview
 Daniel
Park has spent more than a decade in multimedia
development, and has worked with Camtasia
Studio since its introduction as Camtasia
back at the start of the milennium. In this interview,
Danies discusses his book, Camtasia Studio, and PowerPoint.
Read
the interview here...
Aug 3, 2006 - Outlining Toolbar
The Outlining toolbar helps organize the title and
text content of the slides -- in other words, it just
works with the outline of the presentation. This can
be a good thing, since this makes it easier to organize
your outline -- in the process, you can add or merge
slides, and do much more.
Read
more here...
Aug 2, 06 - PowerPoint Slides from Excel List
PowerPoint makes great presentations, and the best
part is that it allows you to reuse all the text content
that you might have created in another application.
In this tutorial, I will show you can reuse a list
in Excel to quickly create a PowerPoint presentation
in less than a minute.
Learn
more here...
Aug 1, 06 - Presenter's Toolkit
In this review, we are looking at something that can
help you improve the look of your presentation......now
let me tell you more about Presenter's Toolkit,
a compendium of high-class graphics from Digital
Juice that is specifically targeted to PowerPoint
users.
Learn
more here...
Aug 1, 06 - Book Extract: Camtasia Studio 3: The
Definitive Guide
 This
book extract from Camtasia
Studio 3: The Definitive Guide is an Indezine exclusive
with permission from Wordware Publishing Inc.
The excerpts chosen to be published on Indezine show
you how you can use the PowerPoint add-in in Camtasia.
Read
the excerpts here...
Jul 29, 06 - Working with Color
This is an amazing tutorial on color theory and application
that makes this complex subject interesting and informative.
Learn
more here...
Jul 29, 06 - Rhapzodé
So what if you look at a product that provides the
option to share your PowerPoints securely -- and then
what if that product adds Flash and PDF output as well
to the feature list? You'll end up with something that
provides value to almost anyone -- that's exactly what
Rhapzodé, the product we are reviewing does.
Learn
more here...
Jul 26, 06 - Hide and Show Toolbars in PowerPoint
The key to streamlining the toolbars is to know how
to hide and show them as required. So if you don't
need one of the toolbars most of the time, just go
ahead and hide it -- getting it back is just another
one-click operation.
Learn
more here...
Jul 25, 06 - Customizing Toolbars in PowerPoint
There are so many toolbars in PowerPoint, and making
them all visible all the time can make the interface
look cluttered. To make the interface more streamlined,
PowerPoint allows you to edit the default toolbars,
and even create one of your own.
Learn
more here...
Jul 20, 06 - WildPresenter
...with dozens of PowerPoint-Flash converting applications
available, it's easy to be spoilt for choices. And
with so many choices, every such application has to
either do things better than others or add more capabilities.
WildPresenter, the product we are reviewing tries to
do both -- and in this review, we will explore if it
succeeds or not.
Read
the WildPresenter review...
Jul 18, 06 - Andrew's Plug-ins -- Series 03 Photomagicks
Here are the previews for Series
03 of this Photoshop compatible plug-in.
Jul 15, 06 - The Kirk Cunningham Interview
 Kirk
Cunnigham is Executive Director, Marketing
at Business Objects, creators of Crystal
Xcelsius software. In this interview, Kirk
discusses Business Objects, Crystal Xcelsius, and
its charting abilities in comparison to Microsoft
Excel and PowerPoint.
Read
the interview here...
Jul 15, 06 - Andrew's Plug-ins -- Series 02
Here are the previews for Series
02 of this Photoshop compatible plug-in.
Jul 14, 06 - Flash Toolbar
Adding movie clips to PowerPoint presentations is
easy since it's basically a one-click operation --
but if you need to add Flash SWF movies to your PowerPoint
slides, you'll soon discover that this process is nowhere
as easy -- nor is it a one-click process!
Flash
Toolbar makes it easy...
Jul 14, 06 - OfficeFX
OfficeFX isn't like other PowerPoint add-ins that
make small changes -- this product metamorphoses your
entire presentation into something that's completely
different from the original PowerPoint as far as the
look is concerned.
Read
more...
Jul 14, 06 - Andrew's Plug-ins -- Series 01
Andrew's Plug-ins are a series of 19 Photoshop plug-in
sets from Graphicxtras that
add all sorts of amazing effects to your images. We
begin by previewing Series
01...
Jul 11, 06 - Using Hotspots in SnagIt
SnagIt allows you to add hotspots to your captures
that can be exported to Flash SWFs -- and it's so simple
to add these Flash equipped captures with hotspots
to your PowerPoint presentations!
Learn
more here...
Jul 8, 06 - PPTminimizer
PPTminimizer is a PowerPoint compression software
that lets you optimize multiple presentations into
different compression levels without changing the format.
Read
more here...
Jul 6, 06 - The Joel Harband Interview
 Joel
Harband heads Tuval Software Industries,
based in Israel. Their best known product is Speech-Over
Studio, a PowerPoint add-in that enables PowerPoint
slides to incorporate narrations using automated
voices. In this interview, Joel discusses his product
and its typical applications.
Read
the interview here... |
