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...

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...