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Scrapblog is an awesome site that lets you create online digital scrapbooks—and it works so much like PowerPoint! They have added a slew of new improvements:
The new photo cropping options now allow you to crop to cookie cutter shapes like circles, rectangles, and stars. There’s also a freehand scissors tool that lets you cut edges any way you want. And an eraser option lets you erase areas of photos as required!
Scrapblog now provides one-click effects—these effects include 12 new built-in effects like black and white, sepia, antique, matte, vignette, a comic book effect, and even the ability to flip your photo. There are also advanced options that allow you to adjust the contrast, saturation, tint, or other fine grained settings.
Scrapblog now also provides new themes, stickers, backgrounds, and frames.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Companion Programs, Online Presentations, PowerPoint
I ran into this excellent, post by Cory Bohon on automating PowerPoint 2008 on the Mac using the Automator program built within the Mac OS X. This may prove a great starting point for automating PowerPoint on the Mac since this new version (PowerPoint 2008) no longer provides VBA programming support.
Read on The Unofficial Apple Weblog site.
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Templates
Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint, Templates
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Scott Schwertly of Ethos3 recently interviewed Geetesh Bajaj in the first of his series on 7 Questions.
This interview can be found on his new Storybored blog.
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Tagged as: Geetesh, Interviews, PowerPoint, Scott Schwertly
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Doing makeovers of slides is such a satisfying task – maybe that is because removing the ugly and replacing it with near perfection is a reward in itself. Over the years, I have understood that the approach required to do any actual makeover is never the same – in the same way as the fingerprints of two humans don’t match, the approaches required to do various makeovers are dissimilar.
Suggesting makeover approaches is a large part of my work – that’s why I find it amusing to hear new schools of thought in the presentation sphere that promise to be a solution to all slide problems. These beliefs range from the no-bullet approach for slides to the total denouncement of slideware. Then there are opinions about keeping things simple and clean – and of providing more visual content. And there’s another school of thought that looks at creating diagrams, charts, and other info-graphic content in a way that’s more effective as is the debate between linear and linked presentations. Each of these approaches is unique and very useful in their own way – and properly applied, each of them may make a difference. But in the same way that a physician will not prescribe a drug for common cold to a patient suffering from body pain, the makeover artist will first examine the slides and then suggest an approach that may use, discard, or combine these approaches.
Read more on this post about makeovers on the SlideShare blog.
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Tagged as: Guest Post, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, SlideShare
authorSTREAM, a site that lets you upload and share your PowerPoint presentations upped the ante today by offering a slew of new options:
Download original presentations: You can now download the original PowerPoint presentation (or other files) if the author of the content enables the relevant option (see figure below).
For your existing presentations uploaded to authorSTREAM, this option is turned off by default. You can however edit your presentation properties and check the option (see figure below).
Share on YouTube: You can also share your presentations on YouTube. This option is now available for presentations that include narration or rehearsed timings. These presentations would automatically be available in a video format (MP4) that you can upload and share on YouTube.
Share on iPods: Again this option is only available for presentations that include narration or rehearsed timings.
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