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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.
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Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, PowerPoint
If you have a new MacBook or MacBook Pro that comes with an Apple Remote, it’s not out of the ordinary to want to use the remote to control your PowerPoint presentations. Christopher Breen of Macworld provides a couple of options.
Read more on the MacWorld site.
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Hardware
Tagged as: Apple, Office for Mac, PowerPoint
Daniel Park has spent more than a decade in multimedia development, and has worked with Camtasia Studio since its introduction as Camtasia back at the start of the milennium.
He served as a trainer and technical writer before scoring a full-time gig at TechSmith Corporation, where he worked in international development, marketing, database administration, and (of course) video creation.
In this interview, Daniel discusses his book, Camtasia Studio, and PowerPoint.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Books, Camtasia, Daniel Park, Interviews, PowerPoint, Techsmith
DimDim is a free web-conferencing program from the open-source stable that takes on stalwarts like WebEx and LiveMeeting. DimDim is based out of United States, Canada, and India, and their demo looked great.
InfoWorld posted a review on DimDim soon after the product was launched at OSCON. Matt Asay said I’ve been tracking a cool startup since Linuxworld Boston, and was glad to see them formally launch at OSCON today. DimDim is the company, and they are to WebEx and web conferencing what SugarCRM is to Salesforce.com and Alfresco is to Sharepoint (and Documentum). An open source, value-rich competitor that should keep the proprietary competition up at night.
Check out the DimDim site.
Also, read the review of DimDim on InfoWorld.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Conferencing, Open Source
With the number of readymade templates and wizards that PowerPoint contains, you can literally create a presentation at the drop of a hat. However, those presentations would not be great presentations, nor would they evoke interest in the audience or look any different than your everyday assembly-line PowerPoint presentation — the type you see so often. It goes without saying that some time and effort has to be spent on creating better presentations.
In this review, we are looking at something that can help you improve the look. It’s necessary to add here that a presentation with great looks and little or no content will get you nowhere. Having said that, now let us tell you more about Presenter’s Toolkit, a compendium of high-class graphics from Digital Juice that is specifically targeted to PowerPoint users.
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Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Digital Juice, PowerPoint, Templates
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