PowerPoint and Presenting Blog: December 2003
Thoughts and impressions of whatever is happening in the world of PowerPoint.
See Also:
PowerPoint and Presenting Notes
PowerPoint and Presentation Glossary
Bezier Curves in PowerPoint
Echo Swinford has a nice tutorial on using Bezier curves in PowerPoint.
New York Times Article Raises Storm
An article in New York Times blames PowerPoint for the Columbia space shuttle crash. Clive Thompson published PowerPoint is Dumb. Not to be left behind, there's already a rejoinder to that article at the ADTMag site by Mike Gunderloy that says PowerPoint Doesn't Make You Dumb
Countdown Timers in PowerPoint
Creating countdown timer slides in PowerPoint is easy - I'm using PowerPoint 2003 for this tutorial, but the techniques should work in versions as old as PowerPoint 97. Learn here...
Omnivox Offers A Great Discount
Omnivox agreed to provide a 10% discount to Indezine and PowerPointed readers look here...
PowerPoint - An Art Form?
Wired magazine interviews Dayid Byrne of Talking Heads Turning Heads With PowerPoint
PowerTalk 1.2 Released
Speechmakers have released version 1.2 of PowerTalk, a free add-in for Powerpoint that narrates text content and 'Alt' text using Microsoft's Speech API. You'll find more info in a full review on PowerTalk on indezine.com...
Seven PowerPoint Sins
Dr. Joseph Sommerville discusses The Seven Deadly Sins of PowerPoint Presentations on About.com. Read here...
PointCapture Review
Just released a review on PointCapture, a search tool for PowerPoint presentations - read here...
Based on my review, Peter McClard of CaptureWorks slashed the price of the product from $149 to $89!!! Thanks, Peter!
PowerPoint And Flash Pages Revamped
All PowerPoint And Flash pages at Indezine have been redone and revamped with so much more info - you now have 4 pages full of info on using Powerpoint and Flash together - find it here...
Powerbullet
You might want to look at Powerbullet, a free presentation program that outputs to the Flash SWF format. You can also use it to create quick menus and animations in Flash that can be used with PowerPoint.
Using a Visio Timeline Diagram in PowerPoint
Tom Bunzel writes about Using a Visio Timeline Diagram in PowerPoint at InformIT.com
PowerPoint and .NET
Michael Assad discusses using .NET to link databases to PowerPoint at Globetechnology
PowerPoint Presentations Online: No! Stop! Don’t!
Amy Gahran makes her point on why you should stop putting your PowerPoint presentations online although she does not touch the subject of ORM (Online Rich Media). Read this at the MarketingProfs site...
PowerPoint Ezine Issue 33
Released the 33rd issue of the PowerPoint Ezine yesterday. Main topics include:
Online Rich Media & PowerPoint
Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint
Quick News
File Formats for PowerPoint
From Word to PowerPoint
Events & Seminars
PowerPoint Ezine Issue 33
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