PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

FlashSpring Pro 2.2

Tuesday, August 7, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 6:18 am

FlashSpring Pro is a PowerPoint add-in which allows you to converts your PowerPoint presentations into Flash SWF movies with all the slide transitions, custom animations, audio and video clips, and inserted Flash SWF files intact.

Read the Indezine review of FlashSpring Pro 2.2.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash

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PocketMac Remote: Conversation with Tim Goggin

Saturday, August 4, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:37 am

Tim Goggin is the VP of Marketing & Sales for PocketMac. He has an extensive background in technology marketing and in direct marketing.

In this conversation, Tim discusses PocketMac Remote, an application that allows the use of the Apple Remote to control PowerPoint and Keynote presentations on the Mac.

Geetesh: Tell us more about PocketMac, and your products including PocketMac Remote.

Tim: In 2001, we started the PocketMac product line with the introduction of our first product, PocketMac Pro, almost 2 years in development, which was the first-ever tool to synchronize the Macintosh and Windows Mobile Pocket PCs. We then shortly added support for Windows Mobile Smartphones.

From there, we’ve expanded into a variety of different areas, including our flagship PocketMac for BlackBerry, which connects Mac users and their BlackBerry handhelds; other tools work with the PSP, iPods and many more.

In 2004, Research In Motion, the creators of the BlackBerry handheld, licensed PocketMac for BlackBerry and they have continued to distribute it since that time.

Our recent releases include PocketMac Remote which expands the capabilities of the Apple Remote to control Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

We’re always working to expand what computer users can do both in the Mac and Windows arena and PocketMac Remote fits nicely into this area.

Geetesh: Since most Macs can now boot into Windows, do you have any plans to make a Windows version of the product that will work with the Apple Remote?

Tim: At this time, we don’t have plans but that’s a great idea. I’ll definitely ask our engineers to look into this. The Macs running Windows marketing is definitely one we take seriously.

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Microsoft Office For Mac Delayed

Friday, August 3, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 2:18 am

The name should have served as a warning. Microsoft has announced the launch of its Office for Mac 2008 has been pushed back until January 2008. Despite the name, Office for Mac 2008, which will bring new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to OS X users, was originally scheduled for release in the second half of this year.

Microsoft hasn’t released a Mac Office update in four years. The company says problems with “product quality” caused the delay, but hopes to have its Mac office suite on the shelves in time for Macworld, which is scheduled for the third week of January 2008.

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”.