PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

MathType Review

MathType 6 is the newest version of a well-known program that allows you to create math equations and more within Word, PowerPoint, and several other applications. MathType itself is available in both Windows and Macintosh platforms, but MathType 6 is available only for Windows at the time of this writing.

MathType 6 has several improvements over the older versions of the program.

Read the Indezine review of MathType 6.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint

SlideShare Adds SlideCasting

We love using SlideShare because it’s a one-click process to upload and share our PowerPoints. However, SlideShare did lack the audio streams that make YouTube and iFilm so popular. And so, people want to create YouTube movies from their PowerPoint files. Not anymore, since SlideShare has added a cool new feature called SlideCasting.

  SlideCasting is cool not just because it adds an audio stream to SlideShare’s online presentations but because it does this in such a well-implemented process:

• First, the presentation upload and the audio features are completely different—so the ease of use remains for those who just want to upload a presentation without audio.
• You can use any audio stream that has a URL. For example, you can use an MP3 file that’s uploaded to your own site, or a podcast.
• Then you mash up the uploaded presentation and audio together. You can do this (and sync the slide timings as well) through an intuitive interface that includes a view of the slides and the waveform of the linked audio stream.
• And you can add audio to any of your uploads on SlideShare—even the ones that were done before SlideShare added the SlideCast feature.

Check out this walkthrough by Jonathan Boutelle.

Filed Under: Companion Programs
Tagged as: Companion, Jonathan Boutelle, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash, SlideShare

SWiSH Presenter

SWiSHzone creates a well-known range of Flash output programs, and when they released their PowerPoint add-in that could create Flash output from a presentation, I really wanted to take a look at the product. Their PowerPoint add-in product is called SWiSH Presenter.

Read the Indezine review of SWiSH Presenter.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash

PowerPoint to YouTube with Movie Maker

AbsolutePPT has a great, new tutorial that shows you how you can create YouTube content with nothing other than PowerPoint and Windows Movie Maker.

The tutorial uses a step-by-step process, and each step is accompanied by a screenshot.

Create videos from your PowerPoint slides using Windows Movie Maker.

Filed Under: Audio and Video
Tagged as: Audio, Multimedia, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, Video, YouTube

PowerPoint Ezine: Issue 74

This is one of the best ezine issues ever! You get three giveaways put together—for Balesio’s PPTMinimizer 3, Wildform’s WildPresenter 3, and an awesome set of PowerPoint templates from Ppted that includes wide screen variations and extras.

You also get more learning resources for PowerPoint, a whole new PowerPoint site geared towards distribution and lifestyle, and more content than you can read in a month!

Read issue 074 of the PowerPoint and Presentation Stuff newsletter.

Filed Under: Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint