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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Adrian Doyle heads Visual Exemplars Ltd, a UK based company that creates Perspector, the popular add-in for PowerPoint that allows you to use animated 3D objects and effects inside PowerPoint. Adrian has worked in the IT sector for many years implementing large scale business and enterprise applications for clients including British Airways and the UK’s Inland Revenue. He also has managed new start-up companies in the Internet sector and helped to turn them into successful businesses.
In this interview, Adrian discusses Perspector, 3D and PowerPoint.
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Impatica’s new 3.32 update adds new features. The most amazing of these is the new BlackBerry support option. I first saw Impaticized PowerPoint presentations on the BlackBerry this October at San Diego, where PowerPoint Live was held. Michael Doyle and Catherine Cormier from Impatica Inc. first showed me how it worked. My first reaction was “wow” because the Impatica people are getting PowerPoint presentations ported on all sorts of platforms and devices. They already are the first online rich media creators to create a Mac version of their main product “Impatica”, thus offering a cross-platform PowerPoint repurposing solution.
Learn more about Impatica’s PowerPoint to BlackBerry conversion.
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A PowerPoint transition is an effect that plays over a period of time that changes one slide to another. Purists often rule that simple transitions like wipes and fades are more usable than the more showy ones. The problem is that rules are meant to be broken. Imagine asking a kid to paint with only blues and greens and stay away from reds and oranges. That’s akin to stopping creativity. Probably it is the same thing with PowerPoint transitions – we all kill creativity because we are scared that we may create something bizarre.
Learn more about making an impression with PowerPlugs: Transitions for PowerPoint.
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Let us look at the profile of a typical PowerPoint user. He or she creates presentations from templates contained within PowerPoint or downloads some from the many sites online. They insert pictures and create charts. Most of them also copy and paste content from other applications into PowerPoint slides. What is the result? Often, it is a fifteen slide presentation that has ballooned to the ungainly size of 15 mb or more.
That’s when a product like PowerShrink can help.
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Troy Stein is Camtasia Studio product manager at TechSmith Corporation in Okemos, Michigan. He has over a decade of experience in technology services and product management and has worked with start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, and small businesses.
In this interview, Troy discusses Camtasia, his role at TechSmith, PowerPoint and more.
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