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Henk de Groot has been very involved in display and presentation technology. In the last 17 years, he has held various management positions at Tektronix in Europe and the USA; he led the European operation of InFocus projectors right from its startup for 9 years. He is the owner of Intelligent Lectern Systems BV and Sho-Q BV, where he developed a new presentations systems solutions that creates a product category and new levels of productivity in presenting and teaching.
Geetesh: Tell us more about your role and Sho-Q.
Henk: As CEO of Sho-Q, I am very involved in all aspects of the company, which fundamentally falls into 2 separate categories—The development of the products and working with end-users on making sure that the product has the right features and that these features can be developed into current and future versions of the products. It is the most fun I have had in years, truly making a difference and enhancing the presentation experience.
Geetesh: What things does Sho-Q do well?
Henk: We are all about enabling the presenter. PowerPoint does a great job of developing presentations. However, it does not enable the presenter or presenters to deliver a seamless presentation, especially in a multi-presentation environment. That is where Sho-Q comes in.
The software has a load of features on both the organization and the delivery side.
Figure 1: Show all Slides
Seamless transitions between presenters and presentations, the ability to set up Intermezzo screens so attendees don’t have to watch the whole setup process, users’ ability to walk up to a presentation device, and effortlessly using a USB Flash device run a presentation and when finished walk away with the security of knowing that their presentation is not on the machine they just used are just some of the features.
Figure 2: Presenter View
Figure 3: Selector Screen View
Additionally, users can time their presentation, see their notes, and navigate their presentation, all though a very intuitive screen that runs on a touch display. This is the first PowerPoint-enabled software application specifically written for touch displays.
So we are both a software and hardware company. We develop a complete line of touchscreen-enabled lecterns, again enabling the presenter. That is what we are all about.
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Jigsaws can add a whole new level of interest to a PowerPoint slide, especially if the jigsaw shapes are cleverly placed and animated. However easy it might be to create something like this from scratch in PowerPoint, it cannot be as easy as Jigsaw Maker, the PowerPoint add-in that we’re reviewing today.
Read the Indezine review of Jigsaw Maker 2.
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iWork, Apple’s productivity suite, has managed to capture 16% of the Mac Office Productivity sales. This really is a fairly big achievement. Microsoft Office is a monster, everyone everywhere uses it and it is the standard for Office Productivity apps. So how have Apple managed to crack Microsoft’s dominance in this market?
The MacApper site has more info.
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Download a sample presentation containing US Elections’ badges.
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This book extract is from PowerPoint 2007: Complete Makeover Kit by Geetesh Bajaj and Echo Swinford. This book is not as much about reading as it is about seeing and doing! That’s why it’s called a kit. Full-color pages show you exactly how your slides will look as you follow the makeover steps, and all presentations in various stages of the makeover are on the accompanying CD.
Read an exclusive book excerpt from PowerPoint 2007 for Windows: Complete Makeover Kit.
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