PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

ActiveSlide Thunder: Create Flash Components for PowerPoint

Most of the time, any click while a PowerPoint slide is playing results in the next animation or the next slide. ActiveSlide Thunder gets around that limitation by using Flash SWF movies inserted in PowerPoint to offer interactivity and animation at the same time.

Read the review here.

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

The Christopher Peri Interview

Dr. Christopher Peri has his credentials in architecture and delves into methods that facilitate designers and engineers to network in real-time. He is the CTO at Simulat, Inc. where he leads development of Vyew, an interactive browser-based collaborative workspace.

In this interview, Christopher discusses Vyew, PowerPoint integration, and more.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Conferencing, PowerPoint

Rich Chart Live: Conversation with Manuel Fernandes

  Manuel Fernandes is from Blue Pacific Software, a rich media company based out of Lisbon, Portugal. In this conversation, Manuel discusses Blue Pacific Software and Rich Chart Live, their web-based charting product.

Geetesh: Tell us more about yourself and Blue Pacific Software.

Manuel: I like to look at myself as a software developer although my job involves a lot more. My preferred hobby is photography. My formal education was on computer science in the University of Lisbon.

I joined Blue Pacific Software 3 years ago just before we sold Flash Printer (now FlashPaper) to Macromedia (now Adobe). Since then we developed other great tools like Turbine 7 (a generic Flash engine), Turbine Video Engine (a video to Flash converter) and more recently Rich Chart Builder (an animated Flash chart generating software). We are still in love with Flash and we continue to develop innovative Flash tools just like the new Rich Chart Live which is an online application that creates animated Flash/PowerPoint charts with attractive visuals and interactivity.

Geetesh: What is Rich Chart Live, and how can it work with PowerPoint presentations.

Manuel: We are very excited about Rich Chart Live (RCL) because it is a great new way of using software: it’s the Web 2.0 way. The software runs from your web-browser and the user doesn’t need to install anything or download any software. This is great for the user because it is so simple. The process of generating a chart with RCL is very simple:

1. You access Rich Chart Live with your preferred web browser in any operating system, from anywhere;
2. Copy and paste your data from any spreadsheet or input it manually;
3. Export the chart to Flash or to PowerPoint.

You can use the software by subscription or by buying a time pass. There is also a free evaluation available for anyone wanting to try it.

Rich Chart Live Interface

You can learn more about Rich Chart Live and test it for free at the Rich Chart Live site.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Flash, Interviews, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash

Google Base now supports Word and PowerPoint

Google has updated the uploader tool on Google Base, its database program, which now allows users to associate more types of files with their items. Until today, uploading was restricted to images, but now users have the option to upload PDF’s, Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets and more.

Read more on the ZDNet site.

Filed Under: Companion Programs
Tagged as: Google, PowerPoint

PowerPoint Flaw Patch Soon

Microsoft said that it plans to issue at least 12 security updates to fix vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office products. Redmond says 10 of the updates will address flaws, some of them “critical” in Windows. No doubt one of the two Office updates will address the PowerPoint flaw that online criminals have been exploiting for the past month to steal information from companies.

Read more on the Washington Post site.

Filed Under: Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, PowerPoint