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The PowerPoint Ezine - 13
by Geetesh Bajaj
Introduction
Welcome to the first issue of this ezine in the new year. We start
by focussing on 'colour' - then proceed to our Quick News section.
This is followed by info on some new products and updates: Impatica
OnCue, PowerPlugs SuperSaver Combo and Apple Keynote. Finally,
we talk about two recent acquisitions and finish with a listing
of sites that provide clipart inspired by the world's ancient civilizations.
Focus on Colour
Colour plays a vital role in any presentation. This is not surprising,
since both colour and presentations share a common bond and that
bond is psychology. Both aim to impress and convey - no wonder
psychological perceptions of responses come into play often.
In this issue, I've compiled a list of links that will help you
study this fascinating subject in more depth:
Choose
The Right Colours for your PowerPoint 2002 Presentation is
an article posted on Microsoft's Assistance Center.
Colour Combinations on
this site discusses usage of colour along with lots of links to
more learning resources.
The International
Color Consortium is the force behind the ICC profiles standardization.
Colour professor J L Morton discusses every nuance of colour at
her extensive
site.
The
Tech site makes a splash with colour in a light, entertaining
style.
Choose and analyze your favourite colours at the Dewey
ColorSystem site.
The Kodak
Digital Learning Centre provides a free online course on
colour theory.
Squant is
a new primary colour - read more about the colour and its controversies.
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Quick News
Wacom has launched its new pressure sensitive tablet called Volito.
The product is currently available only in Europe. More
info...
Microsoft has announced OneNote, a new Office family
program that does much more than just taking down notes. More
info...
 Ulead has
released a new version of its popular DVD Movie Factory.
Version 2 adds several new features like Disc-Direct™ Authoring
and MPEG-Direct™ Capture.
More info at the Ulead
site...
You can buy
the product here...
Awesome PowerPoint Backgrounds has announced a hundred
new PowerPoint backgrounds - take
a look here...
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Impatica OnCue Updated
Impatica has updated it's Imaptica OnCue product
to version 2.3.7 - the new update is free for existing users and
enables import of PowerPoint notes exported from the Impatica
for PowerPoint product.
You can request an evaluation
copy of Impatica for PowerPoint here...
You'll find more info about Impatica
OnCue here...
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PowerPlugs SuperSaver Combo 2
 CrystalGraphics have
launched version 2 of their SuperSaver Combo product. This
new collection brings you 4 of their best-selling PowerPlugs titles — 8
volumes in all, on 8 CDs. The collection includes:
- PowerPlugs Transitions I, II and III
- PowerPlugs 3D Titles I and II
- PowerPlugs Templates I and II
- PowerPlugs Charts
For a limited time, the entire collection is available at an introductory
offer of US$299 translating to a saving of almost 40% off the price
of buying the volumes separately. More
info...
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Apple Keynote
Macintosh presenters are now spoiled for choice - Apple has
released Keynote, a new presentations program.
The new application can import and export PowerPoint, PDF and
QuickTime content and offers many features not available in competing
programs. More
info at the Keynote site...
You can also buy
the product here...
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Acquisitions & More...
Two new acquisitions (or intentions to acquire) were announced
recently by software giants Microsoft and Macromedia.
Microsoft announced its intention to acquire PlaceWare,
a collaborative web conferencing platform that enableS businesses
to conduct real-time, interactive presentations and meetings over
the Internet. More
info...
Macromedia has acquired Presedia, a leading provider
of online presentation and e-learning solutions for online training,
sales, marketing, and corporate communications. Presedia provides
tools and technologies to faithfully convert Microsoft PowerPoint
presentations to Flash SWFs. More
info...
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Ancient World Clipart & Information
The ancient world of civilizations can be fascinating - here are
a few links to download clipart inspired by the work of ancient
people (including some info links):
You'll find lots of links to ancient Egyptian clipart at the UK
Technology Education Centre website.
The Celtic
or Knot site has Celtic backgrounds, shields and heraldic
devices, textures and even Celtic fonts available.
Poison's
Icons has Native American designs in the form of icons and
clipart.
Maxie's
Magnificient Guide has links to several historical clipart
sites.
The Discovery
magazine site has some clipart depicting ancients worlds.
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures has concise info on many world civilizations.
This Listmania page
at Amazon.com lists several classic Dover series books with designs
from the past.
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Credits
During the preparation of this issue of the PowerPoint Ezine,
I received assistance and feedback from Nicole Ha, Steve Rindsberg
and Taj Simmons (all in alphabetical order). I would like to use
this platform to thank them for their help.
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