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It’s hard to believe now, but there used to be a time when PowerPoint to Flash converters were so expensive, and few are far in between. Some of those products were in fact hosted on the servers of the program vendors, and you had to use your browser to upload and download content all the time.
Nowadays, this capability is available in products that range from free to a hundred dollars whereabouts. And these products work on your desktop, not on some remote server.
FlashPoint is one such application—and in this review, we are going to see how the application performs using our new PowerPoint to Flash benchmark presentation.
Read the Indezine review of FlashPoint and FlashPoint Professional.
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Microsoft further detailed its plans for Office 2008 for Mac on Tuesday, saying that it plans to release three versions of the product including one with a Macintosh version of its Expression suite.
The standard version of the product includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage. Retail price will be $239.95 for the upgrade, and $399.95 for the full version. The Special Media Edition includes the Expression studio and will retail for $299.95 for the upgrade and $499.95 for the full. Student and Teacher Edition includes only Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and will retail for $149.95.
Read more on the BetaNews site.
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The folks at muvee released a new PhotoAlbum superStyle that lets you show off your photos (and videos) in three new styles: Scrapbook, Coffee Table Book, and Little Ones.
For those who are not aware, muvee is a cool product that takes out the pain out of creating your own “muvees” from video clips and photos. muvee includes several built-in styles, and you can get more superStyles from them.
Here are YouTube videos of these three styles. Click them to play.
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It’s always interesting to see an application evolve—especially something like PowerPoint. However, it can be a problem keeping up with changes in the interfaces. We’ve just got used to the new Office 2007 interface, and another change is staring. This time it is Office 2008 on the Mac.
At times like these, it’s great to hear input from the team that creates Microsoft Office, and their explanations on why changes are made, and the logic behind these changes.
Nadyne Mielke is a User Experience Researcher at Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit, and she explains why Office 2008 will use the new Elements Gallery rather than replicate the Ribbon from Office 2007.
This is how the Elements Gallery might look like.
Read this on Mac Mojo, the Office for Mac team blog.
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Wacom’s new Bamboo range of pen tablets is squarely targeted at mainstream users, such as business, consumer, and education markets. And they can make any Windows Vista based computer capable of all Tablet PC functions — this means you can use the ink tools while presenting with PowerPoint 2003 and 2007.
The Bamboo range works very well for digital inking, mark up, and digital notes. There are two versions of Bamboo: Bamboo, for personalized input, and Bamboo Fun for creative expression.
Bamboo works on both Windows and Mac platforms, and since Bamboos are more economically priced that Wacom’s other offerings, they make an excellent entry point into tablet computing.
Bamboo Fun includes Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter Essentials, and Nik Color Efex Pro.
Learn more on Wacom’s Bamboo minisite.
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