Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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During Macworld, Microsoft’s chief executive for Macintosh development Roz Ho discusses the company’s new agreement with Apple and additional support for Mac platform technologies.
Read more on the Microsoft site.
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Adobe’s first offering after the Macromedia merger is here, and it seems to get into competition with Apple’s Aperture product. Unlike Aperture, Lightroom will release for both Windows and Mac, although the beta currently is Mac only.
Read more on the Adobe Labs site.
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This is a rule suggested by Guy Kawasaki.
Before there is an epidemic of Ménière’s in the venture capital community, I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. While I’m in the venture capital business, this rule is applicable for any presentation to reach agreement: for example, raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc.
Read more on Guy Kawasaki’s blog.
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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Guy Kawasaki, Opinion, PowerPoint
The Microsoft Project Report Presentation Add-in for Microsoft Office Project 2003 helps a user to quickly and easily create a PowerPoint presentation from a Project file. The tool extracts task information from the Project file and populates a PowerPoint template with the user-selected information.
Download this add-in from the Microsoft site.
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Daz Studio is a free 3D application that allows you to easily create rendered scenes. You can use this software to load in people, animals, vehicles, buildings, props, and accessories to create digital scenes. Here’s a guide that shows you how you can add a model, giving her hair and some clothes, and then change her pose and expression.
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