PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Not Another PowerPoint Presentation!

Monday, May 2, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

The suits and power skirts sitting around the conference table may just as well have been on lunch break. One guy kept stepping away to answer an inconsolable cell phone. A couple of others were frozen in prayerlike formation, heads bowed toward hands clasped around their PDAs. One guy was more interested in his newspaper than the details of the multibillion-dollar heavy-industries merger they were supposed to be hammering out inside a marquee Wall Street investment bank this winter.

For a while, PowerPoint presentations, with its clipped advertising language, appeared to be the cure for attention-deficit disorder. No longer.

The Jan Ozer Interview

Monday, April 18, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:36 am

Jan Ozer has worked with digital video since 1991, originally in the video compression industry and since 1996 as a contributing editor for EventDV and PC Magazine. Jan teaches courses in digital video production, both privately and for the University of Wisconsin Department of Continuing Education, and shoots and produces DVDs for local musicians near his hometown in Galax, Virginia.

In this interview, Jan discusses PowerPoint, the book and video stuff.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Digital Video, Interviews, Jan Ozer

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Encoding Video for PowerPoint

Monday, April 18, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:12 am

A codec is a compression technology, and you have several choices. I like Windows Media for two reasons. First, at similar data rates, Windows Media quality, when encoded using variable bit rate techniques, exceeds the quality of all competitive technologies, except for RealVideo, which is neck and neck.

Jan Ozer discusses more on Indezine.

Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Codec, Jan Ozer, Multimedia

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PointeCast Acquires iCreate PowerPoint-to-Flash Online Training Product

Tuesday, April 5, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

PointeCast Corporation, a privately-held developer of rapid e-Learning tools announced that it purchased the iCreate PowerPoint-to-Flash online training product from Cisco Systems, Inc. PointeCast is incorporating the instant multimedia publishing capabilities of iCreate into its existing product suite, which includes web-based platforms for the tracking and delivery of multimedia training. The newly combined product suite will provide business users with the industry’s most user-friendly and cost-effective online training and e-learning development tools.

Grass Roots Software Announces Powertool for PowerPoint

Monday, April 4, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

Grass Roots Software announced the availability of Powertool, a new playback application for Microsoft PowerPoint users. Featuring dual-screen playback and a simple drag-drop interface, Powertool alleviates non-linear presentations for worship, corporate communication, and educational environments by enhancing PowerPoint’s ability to project a slideshow on a second monitor or data projector.