PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Online PowerPoint YouTube-Alike

Friday, August 3, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 2:14 am

Hey, take a look at this presentation, suggested an e-mail from a friend. However, there was no attached PPS file but rather a simple URL.

Oh great, I thought…

Now I’ll have to go and see where on that file is on a long web page – grudgingly as usual.

I was wrong. The link pointed towards authorSTREAM, a new site which aims to provide the ease of use and “viral-marketing” nature of YouTube, but this time to the world of presentation files.

Microsoft MacBU Releases Open XML File Format Converter Beta

Thursday, August 2, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 4:21 am

Microsoft MacBU (Macintosh Business unit) announced a beta release of their Office Open XML Converter. With this update, Microsoft Office X and 2004 users can save to and open the new Office 2007 XML file formats including PowerPoint and Word files.

According to the site, “This version of the converter improves conversion of Word documents that contain XML content, inline graphics, hyperlinked graphics, WMF/EMF graphics, SmartArt graphics, tracked changes in the document header and footer, Unicode characters, and Japanese Rubi fields”.

Microsoft Works 9, Now with Ads

Wednesday, August 1, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 7:27 am

Microsoft has released a new version of Microsoft Works. Microsoft Works v9, the red-headed stepchild of Microsoft Office, is a free, ad-supported office package offering word processing, spreadsheet, and slideshow (PowerPoint) functionality.

Microsoft Works 9 may also someday be available as a Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service, possibly through the company’s Live services, which would put it head-to-head with Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zoho. But for the moment, Works 9 will be limited to the desktop.

Smartphone Plus Projector

Sunday, July 29, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 10:40 am

Imagine you’re on the final legs of a never-ending road trip. You arrive at the 100th client meeting that week to deliver the PowerPoint you slaved over for weeks. Just as you set up, the projector in the room goes dead. What do you do? Why not use the projector on your smartphone?

Well, right now you can’t do that. But if Motorola has anything to say about it, this scenario will soon become a reality.

Stephen Wellman explains more on InformationWeek.

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authorPOINT Lite: PowerPoint to Flash Converter

Saturday, July 28, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:27 am

authorPOINT Lite, a free PowerPoint to Flash Converter, has been released by authorGEN, a Raleigh, NC-based company that creates e-learning and presentation software. This presentation creation tool is a small download, and works on your desktop to create compact Flash files from your PowerPoint. The tool can also perform batch conversion of multiple .PPS and .PPT files.

authorPOINT Lite retains most PowerPoint effects, including animations and sounds, without any loss in presentation quality in the Flash (.SWF) output. Flash presentations have a number of advantages over the PowerPoint format as Flash files are lighter, more secure, multiple browsers, and operating system compatible.