PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Professional Legal Diagrams and Trial Graphics with SmartDraw

Tuesday, November 22, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 4:06 pm

SmartDraw announced a new Legal Solution edition for creating convincing timelines, crime scene/accident diagrams, evidence charts, patent drawings, forensic diagrams, organizational charts, and more. The new edition provides complete control over the design and development of your trial exhibits and legal graphics.

A free trial version can be downloaded here.

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Tagged as: Graphics, Legal, SmartDraw

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Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

Tuesday, November 22, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 2:26 am

Microsoft Corp. has decided to open up its Office file formats and has submitted the formats to be considered for recognition as a formal standard by Ecma International, which will develop the documentation and make it available to the industry. Opening the MS Office document format takes a step toward eventually ensuring that those customers who do not use Office will be able to work with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents without having to buy the software.

Mobile Office 12 in the Works?

Thursday, November 17, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:04 am

Although details are still sketchy at this time, partners close to Microsoft have indicated that work has begun on a version of Office 12 for mobile devices. Microsoft Watch reported that the update will include refreshes of the mobile versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, which have been included with Windows-based PDAs for years, in addition to a mobile version of the company’s OneNote product.

SuperDuper

Tuesday, November 15, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 2:05 pm

PowerPoint presentations from my clients kept piling up, and I finally added a new hard disk to my old Mac. I was needlessly delaying the transition – Shirt Pocket’s Super Duper! software makes it so easy to duplicate and backup your hard disk. I should know – I’ve used their product six times in two days so I ended up with partition sizes that I could live with. Fortunately, I always ended up with exactly the same files I started with!

Check out SuperDuper here.

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Microsoft Eyes Making Desktop Apps Free

Tuesday, November 15, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 1:56 pm

Already, the company has announced plans for Office Live and Windows Live, two products that are ad-supported complements to its existing desktop software. But in the internal documents, Microsoft workers maintain that the software maker may be forced to go further if rivals launch ad-supported versions of popular programs such as PowerPoint.