Dec 13, 06 - Step Up To The Mic
This book extract from Step
Up To The Mic is an Indezine exclusive with permission
from Rodney Saulsberry / Tomdor Publishing.
In a series of no-brainer inspirational chapters,
Rodney explains the voice-over sphere in a simple,
uncomplicated manner that will be useful to both beginners
and professionals.
Read
the excerpts here...
Dec 7, 06 - RibbonCustomizer
The new ribbon tabs in Office 2007 change dynamically
depending upon what task you are doing -- yet unlike
the old toolbars of pre-Office 2007 applications, there's
no way you can create a new ribbon tab in PowerPoint
2007? That's not entirely true though sine you can
actually create and edit the ribbon tabs in PowerPoint
and other Office 2007 applications using a third-party
add-in called RibbonCustomizer.
Read
more here...
Dec 4, 06 - Flash Slide Show Maker
Sharing pictures is a great way to show visual content
like digicam pictures -- these pictures can be sent
as e-mail attachments, photo albums, slide shows, etc.
Or you could use Flash Slide Show Maker, a free software
that creates Flash based photo slide shows with ease.
Read
more here...
Dec 1 , 06 - PowerPlugs Animator
By far, the only way to make text stand out is by
using color and animation. And even animation is not
uncomplicated -- presentation designers often have
to tweak PowerPoint's animation timings and the timeline
to create out of the ordinary animation effects. PowerPlugs
Animator from CrystalGraphics tries to provide a solution
-- it includes a library of animation styles that enhance
PowerPoint's built in effects -- these can also be
imparted to text with a few clicks.
Read
the full review...
Nov 27, 06 - PPTshare File Compressor
I always like to think of PowerPoint as a glue that
holds disparate media together -- these media elements
include sound, movies, pictures, clip art, and animation
clips. Judiciously used, these elements can make your
presentation look good -- but they can also dramatically
increase file sizes. Optimization software is the solution
-- and there are many such programs available. The
newest of them all is PPTshare File Compressor -- this
allows you to optimize presentations using different
compression levels.
Read
the full review...
Nov 22, 06 - Impatica ShowMate
A large number of business users these days use PDAs,
SmartPhones, and other similar equipment -- the BlackBerry
is one of the most omnipresent phone PDA brands to
be found these days. And to make the connection between
the BlackBerry, PowerPoint, and a projector -- a company
called Impatica decided to create a small product called
the ShowMate.
Read
the review here...
Nov 20, 06 - The Rodney Saulsberry Interview
 Rodney
Saulsberry is one of the top voice-over
talents in the United States, and author of the new
book, Step Up To The Mic. For more
than a decade the Detroit native and University of
Michigan graduate has given voice to many successful
commercial campaigns, including Toyota Camry, Alpo,
Verizon, and numerous movie trailers. In this interview,
Rodney discusses his new book.
Read
the interview here...
Nov 11, 06 - SmartDraw 2007
PowerPoint, by itself contains a very capable diagramming
feature -- and the new SmartArt feature in PowerPoint
2007 is even more impressive. Even then, there are
bound to be times when you want something that's easier
to use, provides more options, and even works well
with PowerPoint. That's exactly what SmartDraw 2007
aims to be.
Read more
here...
Nov 11, 06 - The Jonathan Boutelle Interview
 Jonathan
Boutelle is the CTO of SlideShare, and is
a principal at Uzanto Consulting. A software engineer
by training, his interests lie at the intersection
of technology, business, and user experience. In
this interview, Jonathan discusses SlideShare and
PowerPoint.
Read
the interview here...
Nov 9, 06 - The Tom Bunzel Interview
 Tom
Bunzel specializes in knowing what other
presenters need. He has appeared on Tech TV's Call
for Help as "Professor PowerPoint" and
is a featured speaker at the PowerPoint Live conference
each year. In this interview, Tom discusses his book
and PowerPoint.
Read
the interview here...
Nov 7, 06 - PicShrink
Pictures may speak a thousand words, but on your computer
pictures can easily occupy space enough for tens of
thousands of words. PicShrink allows you to optimize
these pictures.
Read more
here...
Nov 2, 06 - Solving the PowerPoint Predicament
This book extract from Solving the PowerPoint
Predicament by Tom Bunzel is
an Indezine exclusive with permission from Pearson
Education.
The book goes beyond PowerPoint and teaches you how
you can use various third party products, and sound
presentation design principles to create presentations
that look different from the more common variety of
PowerPoints that you encounter each day.
Read
the excerpts here..
Oct 26, 06 - Articulate Engage
...and then if you want these small brochure-type
movies to be included in an e-learning platform, you'll
soon discover that's something easier told than done!
So, it has to be quite an amazing product that will
walk the balancing rope for all these possibilities
-- and that's what Articulate's new Engage tries to
be. Does it succeed?
Read
more to find out..
Oct 20, 06 - Cinematize 2 Pro
Cinematize extracts movie clips from a DVD -- then
it saves those extracts into different movie file formats
that can be inserted in PowerPoint. And now the folks
who create Cinematize have launched a Professional
version of the same product. So what does it do better
than the basic version?
Read
on...
Oct 18, 06 - Articulate Quizmaker
There are many applications out there that let you
create online quizzes, but Articulate Quizmaker is
one of the easiest and more featured alternatives that
lets you create a quiz without any programming abilities.
Read
the full review...
Oct 17, 06 - Bring Training to Life with Avatars
 Corporate
trainers and salespeople are now discovering that they
can sustain attention -- and ensure a higher content
retention level -- by using animated characters called
avatars that talk, sing, dance, gesture, tell jokes
and generally liven up the proceedings.
Learn more with Tom
Atkins...
Oct 17 , 06 - PowerPoint Ezine 71
Giveaways and More
Champagne RemotePoint Promo
Focus on SlideShare
Articulate Presenter 5
News and Happenings
Read
more...
Oct 10, 06 - Articulate Presenter 5
On its own, Articulate Presenter enables you to convert
a PowerPoint presentation to a Flash SWF based online
rich media content -- Presenter also includes several
bells and whistles such as the ability to insert quizzes,
Flash animations, narrations, and web objects. The
output is entirely customizable, includes interactivity,
and reduces the file size so that the content can also
be sent by e-mail.
Read
the full review here...
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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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