PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Royalty Free Music

Why I dislike the term “Royalty Free Music”? The three most popular phrases used to describe the offerings of music production libraries like UniqueTracks are: Royalty free music, Stock music, and Buy-out music. Of the three, the most accurate, to me, is stock music because it implies a collection of media that is immediately available to be used in production creation. However, the phrase most often used to describe our services is royalty free music.

John Bickerton discusses royalty free music, or stock music.

Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Guest Post, John Bickerton, Music

Articulate Receives TechLearn’s Best of Show Awards

Articulate received two Best of Show Awards, one for content authoring and a second for assessment tools at last week’s TechLearn conference in Las Vegas. The awards, sponsored by Questex Media Group, Inc., were given to products with the best potential to change the future of the learning and training industry. Articulate’s Presenter 5.0 and Quizmaker 2.0 products were judged on characteristics such as ease of integration, implementation, system quality, customer service, and return on investment.

Read more on the Articulate site.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Articulate, Awards

Create Picture Frames in PowerPoint

Have you ever wanted to add a frame to a picture you inserted on a PowerPoint slide? It’s actually not obvious, but you can create nice frames using PowerPoint’s built-in tools. If you need more than PowerPoint’s tools can provide, you also can always get some content outside PowerPoint.

In this article, we show you how you can use both of these techniques to create attractive picture frames for your slides.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Design, Pictures

Intelligence and Office 12 Ribbons

This morning I read an article about the new Microsoft Office 12 that will be coming out some time in 2006. It seems that Microsoft has discovered that no one uses all the new features they’ve added to Office over the last 10 years or so. The theory is that the features are all buried in menus and are now too hard to find.

Read more with Susan Daffron on the Computor Companion site.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Office 2007, Opinion, PowerPoint 2007

Creating 3D Transitions in PowerPoint on the Cheap

Many folks don’t realize is that since Exit Animations were added to PowerPoint (2002 or higher) it’s quite easy to create your own 3D transition effects without any additional software or hardware. First, create your presentation and save it. Then follow these easy steps to create your own 3D transition.

Learn more with Glenna Shaw.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Glenna Shaw, Transitions