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PowerPoint has been around for nearly two and a half decades now, and quite possibly many viewers are tired of seeing the same PowerPoint designs. Styles come and go with unfailing regularity, and there’s always the human urge to experiment and play with something different. This human urge extends to PowerPoint as well, and PowerPoint designers are always on the lookout for something more contemporary. Enter Motion Templates from PresentationPro, a set of designs that include animated elements that attract attention while still being subtle enough to not make the presentations loud. How can these be used, and what is our opinion.
Read the Indezine review of PresentationPro Motion Templates Volume 1.
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Like many users, we end up with many programs on our computer. We find that most programs fall into three categories. We need to use some of them every day, and some of them at least a few times each month. We had to buy some of the other programs because we had to use them once or twice, and maybe we’ll need them again once or twice a year. We need this program because it does the work of a dozen programs for us. We’re sure Snagit from Techsmith comprises the third category.
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While PowerPoint is equipped with more options that what any person can use in their lifetime, there’s always some features that are missing, or are available in some deep dungeon within PowerPoint that’s not visible to mere mortals. We recently came across this cool add-in for PowerPoint called OfficeOne ProTools that creates some new options within PowerPoint. Let’s see how it fares.
Read the Indezine review of PPTProTools.
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Steffen Setzer is Director of Marketing at Canto. Canto is a leading supplier ofdigital asset management solutions and has been dedicated to helpingcustomers fully utilize their digital assets since 1990. In this interview, Steffen discusses the new Canto Cumulus 8, a cross-platform solution that enables companies to easily organize, find, share, and track their ever-increasing numbers of photos, illustrations, presentations, videos, audio, layouts, and more.
Geetesh: Tell us more about Canto Cumulus 8 and the new improvements.
Steffen: Cumulus 8 was the most significant architecture update ever for the product line. Just on the subject of performance alone, users are seeing exponential increases. The user interface was overhauled to provide a more efficient, friendly experience for users, and we also added user commenting on assets, statistics, and much more. Among the new add-on products is a module that enables users to catalog new assets via email, which is a real benefit for those who work remotely, or even those who use smart phones to capture photos, like Realtors or insurance adjusters. Overall, I’d say Cumulus 8 has been an extremely popular release for customers.
Geetesh: There’s no new feature for PowerPoint users in Cumulus 8 — but I’m sure they can benefit from the overall improvements to the program. Tell us more.
Steffen: Actually, because catalog performance in Cumulus 8 is far faster than ever, those who catalog PowerPoint presentations that are divided into individual asset records per slide, can see fantastic speed gains. In addition, we have a new built-in Image Editor that enables users to convert previews into brand new assets. So, users can use this utility to create web-ready JPGs or other images from their PowerPoint slides. Or, they can even have Cumulus create watermarked variants of their presentations, saved as images or PDFs, even over the Web.
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Indezine is pleased to share with you information about YawnBuster. YawnBuster is an interactive PowerPoint® add-in by Harbinger Knowledge Products that brings alive your slides with group activities such as audience polls, games, group exercises, and competitions. And best of all, you can add all this stuff on your slides without leaving the familiar PowerPoint environment.
We are giving away 5 copies of YawnBuster. All you need to do is fill in this form. Winners will be announced on the Indezine site, and individual winners will receive their licenses by e-mail!
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