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• Puny Powerpoint Pusher: LG Chocolate HS101 Mini Projector Finally On Its Way

  Published: August 7, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Chocolate, Hs101, Lg Chocolate Hs101 Mini Projector, Mini Projector, Projector, Puny Powerpoint Pusher

  While he heard rumblings of the LG Chocolate HS101 mini projector way back in December, the company says it will finally be shipping the diminutive minibeamer by the middle of this month. Even though this baby is just 6 inches long, 4 inches wide and a mere 2 inches thick and weighing just shy of 2 pounds, LG says it can crank out 100 lumens at a

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• Powerpoint: Create web-based presentations at Preezo

  Published: August 14, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Microsoft Office, Powerpoint, Web As Desktop

  a stripped-down version of PowerPoint right inside your web browser. Create, edit, collaborate on and permalink slideshows at Preezo, which isn't as featureful as PowerPoint proper but has all the essential tools you need to create a full-on presentation minus desktop software. Rumor has it that Google Docs & Spreadsheets will add a

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• Video Demonstration: Embed YouTube Clips in a PowerPoint Presentation

  Published: August 22, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: How To, Powerpoint, Screencasts, Top, Video Demonstration, Youtube

  Want to include a YouTube clip into your PowerPoint presentation that you'll be giving offline? Hit this nine-minute video to see how. Use the Video Downloader to save the clip to your hard drive and the free SUPER to convert it for use in PowerPoint. [via Daily Cup of Tech]

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• Public Speaking: Perfect Your Presentations

  Published: August 24, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Clips, How To, Powerpoint, Presentations, Public Speaking

  Productivity guy Merlin Mann gives a behind-the-scenes look at how he put together the Inbox Zero presentation he gave at Google a few weeks back (video included above to jog your memory, and here are the slides.) MM's a fan and reader of the Beyond Bullet Points book we've recommended, as well as some other great presentation resources and

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• Text Substitution: Present More Efficiently with Macros

  Published: August 30, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Powerpoint, Presentations, Text Substitution

  Frequent presenter Craig offers a few tips for making your demonstration go more smoothly—like how to reduce typing time: Let Macros Do the Typing: When giving a live demonstration of software development, consider programming macros to do the bulk of the typing for you.[...] If not macros, then, at least, have a text file open that

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• Google's new version of online Docs, Spreadsheets, Folders

  Published: July 2, 2007, 12:09 am

  Tags: Docs, Desktop, Online, Gmail, Spreadsheets, Word, Powerpoint, Gui, Zenter, Folders

  will eventually add a PowerPoint-like presentation builder to its online office suite. Over the past two weeks, the company added a PowerPoint viewer to Gmail and announced the acquisition of Zenter, a startup with an existing online presentation

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• Zentation - Upload & share your video & poweroint presentations

  Published: September 4, 2007, 6:03 pm

  Tags: Video, Web 2 0, Powerpoint, Office

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• Powerpoint: Quickly Extract Images from Slideshows

  Published: September 16, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Image Editing, Images, Powerpoint

  PowerPoint images can be quickly extracted with a little trick from technology blogger Amit Agarwal: To extract pictures from the PPT slideshow, all you have to do is export the Powerpoint Presentation as an HTML web page (File -> Save As -> Select .html from the File Format drop down). PowerPoint will automatically extract every picture

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• Google Docs Presentations: It ain't Keynote...

  Published: September 18, 2007, 2:12 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Newcon, Productivity, Wiki, Collaboration, Googledocs, Powerpoint, Presentations

  tools, since it resembles PowerPoint pretty well. It's also got the distinct advantage of being a presentation tool on which you can collaborate with many other people, simultaneously or asynchronously. From this perspective, it makes school PowerPoint presentations something much more feasible, leaving F2F time for some more valuable types of

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• Give a Better Presentation!

  Published: September 1, 2007, 2:33 pm

  Tags: Blogher Conferences, Business Career Amp Amp Personal Finance, Gtd, Powerpoint, Presentation, Public Speaking, Unconference Blogher07

  your drycleaning to your Powerpoint on a single sheet of paper. Lisa's Presentation Tips How many slides should I have? I generally plan one slide for every three minutes I am expected to be speaking. Exception: if I'm showing visual images or screenshots, I may choose to do these much more quickly, passing them by the audience rapidly to

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• Google (GOOG) officially unleashes online Microsoft (MSFT) PowerPoint competitor

  Published: September 18, 2007, 8:23 am

  Tags: Goog, Google Apps, Google Presenter, Googleapps, Googlepresenter, Inthenews, Microsoft, Msft, Powerpoint

  comparison to Microsoft's PowerPoint by the media.Much like the freely available OpenOffice software suite, Google Presentation can import and use Microsoft PowerPoint files, has built-in themes, text formatting and so forth. Google Presentation, of course, has built-in online collaboration and sharing, which is something many PowerPoint users

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• Software: Google adds a PowerPoint clone called Presentation ...

  Published: September 18, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Docs, Google, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Office, Powerpoint, Presentation, Software

  Google adds a PowerPoint clone called Presentation to its stable of online Word and Excel clones. Whether an online-only, browser-based presentation suite will be nearly as powerful as a native application is yet to be seen, but our guess is no. [Google]

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• Geek To Live: Rock Your Presentation with the Right Tools and Apps

  Published: September 28, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Communication, Feature, Geek To Live, Keynote, Powerpoint, Presentations, Public Speaking, Top

  using a Mac or Windows, PowerPoint or Keynote, or simply presenting straight from your web browser, there are a few power tips, apps, and tools that can make your slideshow or demonstration smooth, entertaining and memorable. Photo by jurvetson.Ditch the Bullet PointsIf you're doing a straight PowerPoint or Keynote slideshow, do your

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• Featured Download: Add Smooth Transitions and Slide Effects with KeyJnote

  Published: October 1, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Featured Download, Keynote, Powerpoint, Presentations, Public Speaking

  Windows/Mac/Linux: Open source presentation viewer KeyJNote adds slick transitions to your slideshow plus other useful features, like tabbing between slide thumbnails and highlighting parts of the screen while you present. KeyJNote is not a slide editor or creator, mind you—to use it, you must export an existing presentation to PDF or

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• Improving Academic Presentation Style

  Published: October 2, 2007, 12:34 am

  Tags: Ask 43f, Academics, Keynote, Powerpoint, Presentations, Talks

  I give a lot of talks, and I've been trying to improve my presentation style, but I'm not sure how to do it in the context of my field. I am in a fairly quantitative science. I have to give presentations where I present results; I am 'selling' the result to the audience, but not in the same way, I think, that one would sell a product, or an

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