PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Perspector Tutorial from Glen Millar

Glen Millar, PowerPoint MVP shows how you can do some amazingly simple 3D in PowerPoint with a little help from Perspector, a 3D add-in for PowerPoint from Visual Exemplars.

Learn more with Glen.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: 3D, Glen Millar, Perspector

How to Solve Windows System Crashes in Minutes

A system crash: If you’re lucky, it only ruins your day. More than likely, you’re in for several bad days followed by a few stressful weeks or months. After all, systems rarely fail only once. Rather, they keep crashing until you find the cause and fix the problem. This primer will show you how to solve problems quickly. Using a tool that costs nothing, you can solve approximately 50% of Windows server and workstation crashes in a few minutes.

Dirk A. D. Smith explains more on the Network World site.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Troubleshooting

Bringing Distance Learning Alive

When people think of PowerPoint, they kind of sneer, smile and say, ‘That’s nice,’ said Katherine Horton, who, with her husband, William Horton is presenting at this week’s Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison.

But it has a lot of possibilities that many people have not explored.

Using plug-in tools such as Flash-based Articulate Presenter, Horton displays how a simple PowerPoint educational presentation can be enlivened with narration and interactivity, and that can add performance assessment abilities.

Read more on the WTN site.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Articulate, eLearning, Katherine Horton, PowerPoint, William Horton

Macromedia Announces End-To-End Solution For High-Impact Online Events

Macromedia announced the availability of an all-inclusive Web event solution, providing customers everything they need to create, host, and manage a web seminar for a fraction of the cost of a typical trade show or in-person event. By eliminating travel and external event expenses, web seminars make it easier for prospects to participate and are much less expensive for marketers to attract and qualify leads. Macromedia Breeze supports data exchange with a company’s marketing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, enabling the easy import of prospect contact information, registration, and attendance tracking, and the export of results to CRM systems for sales follow-up.

Read more on the Macromedia site.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Adobe Connect, Breeze, Macromedia

Add Soft Shadows to your PowerPoint Shapes

I really like Keith Tromer‘s new SoftShadow add-in for PowerPoint. Finally, PowerPoint has soft shadows like Photoshop! Maybe that explains why I gave Keith such a nice quote to put on his site! What I like about SoftShadow is that I don’t need to take my objects to Photoshop and add a nice drop shadow and then get it back to PowerPoint as a PNG. The Soft Shadow add-in does it all inside PowerPoint with one click. Also, all my objects can be restored to their no-shadow look with another click.

There is a trial version that you can download from the pptXTREME site.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Keith Tromer, pptXTREME