Software/Add-Ins Archives - Page 19 of 26

indisain.com – Images for Presentations

In searching for images for a current project I stumbled on indisain, a royalty free site that offers all images free of charge.

You do need to register in order to login and download images (without a watermark). I found the variety good, but the image size varied from usable (1280px wide) to unusable (100px wide). Images are categorized, but limited search capabilities with categories. And some categories had more images than others, such as the landscapes category with 72 pages of images.

If you need another image resource, you can check out indisain here.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:44:29-08:00August 18th, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

XOBNI is Great!

If you are an Outlook user like me for email (my 12 year old daughter has no use for email that is not web-based on accessible from any connection or phone). I think this is a must have tool, and I am in good company as Mr. Bill Gates recently extolled its usefullness!

Xobni is “inbox” spelled backwards. It runs along side Outlook, without touching any of its files (very important to me) and is viewed in a new column. It adds information about who is emailing you, how to contact them, who you have mutually emailed, threaded conversations and more.

By far my favorite feature is the ‘Files Exchanged’ area that shows all of the attachments that person has sent me – which means no more hunting through old emails for that logo!

It is FREE and works! Look at it here.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:47:35-08:00August 1st, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

iSpringPro FREE Today!

It is not often that I have 2 posts in a day – but this offer is time sensitive as it expires today! The website “Giveaway of the Day” has an offer to download and install a full function version of iSpring Pro for free – regularly $199.

iSpring is a PPT-to-Flash conversion add-in. It adds a tool bar to PPT and from my initial tests does a good job of capturing animations and visual effects (note: I have not fully tested the iSpring software, but it has been on my radar for awhile. I actually downloaded demo version of software last month, but did not have time to run through my standard series of test files to really evaluate it).

So if you are interested, you can have it for free. NOTE: it must be downloaded AND installed before the Giveaway of the Day deal ends today (approx. 15hrs from this post). Click here to go to download page.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:51:19-08:00July 9th, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

JRuler Onscreen Ruler

In PowerPoint, Photoshop, Word and many other applications you can turn on a ruler to confirm size, alignment, etc. Enter the very cool JRuler application!

Here we can see the PPTBlog banner is 740px wide.

– JRuler is a free download (download here).

– It does not need to be installed (just launch the .exe any time)

– It can be stretched to any length (maximum is your screen resolution)

– It floats on top of all applications and windows

– Hint: right-click on it for a number of additional tools and options. Open the JRuler.htm file included in the download for full details

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:54:07-08:00June 23rd, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

Add-Ins Webinar This Friday

I am very excited because I finally finished all of the demo’s for the AudioSolutionz webinar that I am doing in just a few days (hey, I have been traveling almost non-stop for the past 3 months – and it has (almost) all been PowerPoint related shows).

The thing that I really became aware of was the best way to add power to PowerPoint is to know what add-ins are available and to know what they do see them demonstrated. That is the really great part about a live a webinar is that it allows me to do more than make a recommendation, I can demonstrate each add-in with real-world presentation examples.

Click here to get details on the AudioSolutionz webinar. Hope to see many of you there!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:55:31-08:00June 18th, 2008|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc, Software/Add-Ins|

NOW AVAILABLE SnagIt v9

One of my favorite applications, SnagIt, has just this week released the completely redesigned version 9.

There is a new Microsoft like ribbon navigation (works great) and some new image management tools. Get all the details, pricing and download options here. Download.com also has a good review of it here.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:56:24-08:00June 13th, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

Need A Map for a Presentation ?

One of the best deals available is the map collection from an educational supplier. eSchoolMaps has a huge collection of U.S. and global maps that are supplied in several formats.

The .emf version is not only compatible with PowerPoint, but already on slides which can be inserted into any presentation! And all can be modified with custom fills, resizing, etc. But best of all, the entire collection is just $40! Look at it here.

Here is a US map I modified for a recent project:

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:56:45-08:00June 11th, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

MS Fluent User Interactive Demo

Not up to speed on the new Ribbon interface… Have 10 minutes to kill… Check out this nifty interactive Flash demo on why the Ribbon was designed and interactive tutorials for each of the Office apps.

Click here to open. If you want to skip ahead, PowerPoint is Chapter 6.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:58:19-08:00June 4th, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

Trouble with Flash Player…

So I recently went through some issues installing a PowerPoint add-in. It relies on Flash, but did not recognize it was already installed. In troubleshooting I found a couple of nice tools from Adobe and lots of information on the Flash Player.

For me it turned out that I needed to register the flash player with the add-in, which was a solution provided on their website. But should you need to take further steps here are a few useful tools:

What version is installed?
– Click here to go to this website and it will run a system check and tell you exactly what version and build of Flash player is installed on your computer.

How do I remove it?
– Click here to download Adobe’s Flash Removal Tools.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:12:14-08:00April 7th, 2008|Resource/Misc, Software/Add-Ins|

I Don’t Want Black Letterbox Bars!

So the display monitor for your presentation is not a “standard” resolution and you want don’t want to have black letterbox bars while your presentation is shown. The best option is to adjust the page size of the presentation to a height and width that matches the display size. But what do you adjust the page size too?

If you want to avoid the higher math needed, you can use a free little application created by Austin Myers over at Plays For Certain. The “Calculate PowerPoint Slide Size” does exactly what it says. Input the pixel size of the display, click the calculate button, and it does all the math for you, providing 3 page setup options that guarantee the presentation will fill every one of those pixels.

Just click here to download (11K .zip).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:26:32-08:00February 18th, 2008|PowerPoint, Software/Add-Ins|