This time, Balesio is giving away 10 copies of PPTminimizer
3.0,
a program that optimizes PowerPoint files.
This new version also supports PowerPoint 2007 and Windows Vista.
To win, all you need to do is fill
in this form. This giveaway ends on July 30th.
Wildform is giving away 3 copies of WildPresenter 3, their capture
and PowerPoint to Flash converter program. To win, all you need
to do is fill
in this form. This giveaway also ends on July 30th.
You can see the names of last ezine's giveaway winners here...
Congratulations to all the winners!
New Site: AbsolutePPT
AbsolutePPT is a new site about distributing your
PowerPoints in all possible ways. Be it through a streaming movie,
or a DVD, or even any other way, if it concerns PowerPoint distribution,
you can find it here.
In our continuous Learning PowerPoint section, here are some more
basic tutorials:
Chart Objects
in PowerPoint explores
each individual chart object -- before that, we'll show you how
you can select these chart objects individually.
Although it's easy to add reflection effects in PowerPoint 2007,
there is a less obvious way of recreating a similar reflection
effect in earlier versions of PowerPoint as well. Sandra Johnson
shows you how...
Many users tend to buy another program just to rip their CD tracks
to use them in a PowerPoint presentation.
Rip CD Tracks - In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can convert
audio CD tracks to WAV, MP3, and WMA files using nothing apart
from the free copy of Windows
Media Player that's included with every copy of Windows XP
and Vista.
Mike Pearce teaches social studies at Ellison
High School in the Killeen Independent School District in Texas,
USA. But Mike is not just another teacher -- he uses PowerPoint
presentations to deliver a successful teaching system that
has shown a phenomenal improvement in the results and passing rates.
If you have mastered PowerPoint, you may wonder why you should
bother converting your PowerPoint presentation to Flash. After
all, most people in companies probably have PowerPoint installed
on their computers... Colby
Devitt of Wildform explains more...
News and Happenings
Read reviews
PointClips are visuals created
within PowerPoint itself -- using PowerPoint's own drawing tools!
PowerShrink 2007 is a PowerPoint compression product from TopByteLabs Computing.
Design trends change in an attempt to create more contemporary
looks. One of the newest such PowerPoint template
collections is Volume 5 of the well known PowerFinish collection.
Impatica 4 for PowerPoint takes your PowerPoint
presentations, converts them to the Impatica formats that
can be as small as 95% of the original file sizes.
Canon has made quite a buzz with their new line of REALiS
projectors.
ConceptDraw MINDMAP
5 can help you create the outline of your
next PowerPoint presentation more effectively
PPTmovie creates movies from your PowerPoint presentations.
CrystalGraphics'
PowerPlugs annual subscription of PowerPoint
templates allows you to choose from their large template collection
for a fixed price.
Cinematize 2.03 is the newest Windows Vista
compatible version of the product that allows you to extract
audio and video clips off DVDs.
PowerPoint Recovery can help when the presentation
that you have been working on for more than a month refuses
to open.
ALLCapture 2 makes recording and output of such videos even
easy.
Read interviews
Ellen Finkelstein is the author of How
To Do Everything with Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2007 and the upcoming PowerPoint
for Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom
Projects
Terry Irwin is a consultant surgeon in Belfast,
Northern Ireland working for the National Health Service (NHS).
Terry is also a long time PowerPoint user and co-author of a
book on PowerPoint geared towards the designing of medical presentations.
Carmine Gallo is a communications coach for
the world’s most admired brands. Gallo writes a bi-weekly
column on the subject of business communications for Businessweek.com
and he is the author of two books aimed at business professionals
who want to become better speakers and presenters.
Tom Mucciolo is president of MediaNet, and
a recognized industry expert in visual communications, business
presentations and leadership skills. He has served as a skills
consultant for major corporations since 1985, concentrating on
the script, visuals, and delivery associated with presentations,
especially electronic events.
This exclusive book extract from Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2007 on Demand explains common PowerPoint
procedures using a series of numbered steps with tons of
screenshots that are captioned.
Read conversations
Mark
Sicignano has been developing software for over 20 years.
In addition to creating ScreenShot
Direct he is also a co-founder of SoftwareTime which
creates software tools that encourage children to use the computer
wisely.
Claudyne
Wilder is guest lecturer at
conferences, business shows and corporate events. She is the
creator of three presentation seminars.
Colby
Devitt is the president and co-founder
of Wildform,
a multimedia
software company based out of Los Angeles, USA.
Ted
Thayer whips up cool PowerPoint presentations
with amazing animations. He's 14 years old, but that did not
stop him from taking part in iFilm's
Best PowerPoint Moment contest and becoming one of the
winners.
Sandra
Johnson has devoted the past 6
years of her career to PowerPoint presentation design and delivery.
Sandra helps clients leverage this powerful Microsoft tool
as a sophisticated and dynamic component of their marketing
mix.
Olivier
Gryson is the Internet Project
Director at Servier
International, an independent pharmaceutical company based
in France. Their medical art is an offshoot of their existing
business which they offer as free downloads for non-commercial
use.
Read blog posts
PowerPoint
turns 20 - One of the most
elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of
software in the history of computers is 20 years old. There
won't be a lot of birthday celebrations for PowerPoint; the
program is one the world loves to mock almost as much as it
loves to use.
Design Science has released a new version of MathType,
their mathematical notation tool.
Microsoft's
MacBU division confirmed that they will release beta 2 of the much
awaited Office 2007 file format converters with "a significant
Word refresh and the addition of PowerPoint (.pptx).
These three collections have extras: wide screen backgrounds and templates, 4 coordinated color schemes in each template, and 10 coordinated, transparent PNGs that you can use in any presentation. And we are not increasing the price for a while -- so get them now!
