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Presenter from Articulate at: www.articulateglobal.com/main.html enables your presentation to be converted to Flash, which is already installed in 98% of Web browsers. Articulate Presenter reduces the size of your presentations so they download fast. Presentations may be distributed easily on the Web, by e-mail or on CD-ROM. Articulate Presenter lets non-technical users create rich-media presentations by integrating narration and interactivity with a standard PowerPoint® file. At the press of the button, your presentation is transformed to a compelling Flash experience. |
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PowerCONVERTER from PresentationPro at: www.presentationpro.com/products/PowerCONVERTER.asp makes the process of distributing PowerPoint® presentations faster and easier. It’s a PowerPoint® plug-in that quickly converts your presentations to the Macromedia Flash format. The converted Flash file is smaller, secure, and in a streaming media format that’s ideal for posting presentations to websites, intranets or for creating self-running CD-ROMs. And with our EmailPRESENTER and OnlinePRESENTER products, you can take that same converted presentation and embed it in emails and remotely present it via a web conference. That means your big bulky PowerPoint® can now stream around the Internet much faster. It also means that anybody that can create a PowerPoint® file--is now a Flash author. |
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PointeCast Publisher at: http://www.pointecast.com ...is a PowerPoint® plug-in that automatically converts your PowerPoint® 2000, XP/2002, and 2003 presentations into a Macromedia Flash format. With PointeCast, now you can easily convert your new and existing PowerPoint® presentations into online Flash presentations, complete with your own narration. You will appreciate the flexibility of viewing your presentations anywhere, anytime with any standard Web browser. |
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PresenterSoft at: www.presentersoft.com/ is presentation software that makes it easy for everyone to present, teach and communicate online. Corporations can realize immediate ROI by using online presentations to reduce travel costs, reduce in person training costs, and reduce product demonstration and sales costs. For educational institutions, educators can easily create training presentations using tools they are already familiar with--PowerPoint. The presentations can be delivered on-demand to a large audience online, via CD,DVD or downloaded to a PC. |
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Wondershare PPT to Flash Studio at: www.sameshow.com/ is a powerful utility to convert PowerPoint presentations into Flash Slideshow with audio, video, transitions and animations , while making your presentation become more accessible, ubiquitous and easily distributable. With this amazing tool, not only almost all the original components in PowerPoint will be kept intact, but also many features such as voiceover and flash graphics can be added to customize your PowerPoint and make it more interactive and personalized. The smaller, securer converted Flash file enables you to email it to your friends or just post it on Internet sharing with other people in a breeze.
Unlike similar products on the market, PPT to Flash Studio enables you to do the whole PowerPoint-to-Flash process with a choice of two conversion modes. The choice of mode totally depends on your specific needs. One is Standalone Mode , the other is PowerPoint Plug-in Mode . |
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Adobe Photoshop CS2 at: www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.html. The premiere and most versatile image retouching program currently available on the market today. Get superior results faster with Adobe Photoshop CS2 software, the powerful new upgrade from Photoshop CS, and take advantage of indispensable new features for graphic and Web design, photography, and video. |
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 at: www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/main.html. This is the "cut-down" version of Photoshop. This program is designed for use by the casual image retoucher/enthusiast. Maybe you're the official family shutterbug, recording every birthday and barbecue for posterity. Maybe you just bought a scanner and want to fix up some imperfect film photos you've converted to JPEG files. Or maybe you've got digital red-eye removal down pat and you'd like to try enhancing your photos with special effects or creating Web animations. Then you're ready for Adobe Photoshop® Elements 4.0 software! |
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Adobe Illustrator CS2 at: www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/main.html, software gives you new creative freedom that lets you realize your ideas quickly and powerfully. Instantly convert bitmaps to vector artwork and paint more intuitively. Save time with intelligent palettes and optimized workspaces. Plus, tight integration with other software allows you to produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices. |
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Ulead® COOL 3D™ 3.5 at: www.ulead.com allows designers to create high-impact 3D images. Output these 3D images as still graphics, animations, video or Macromedia® Flash™ . Ulead COOL 3D delivers stunning 3D graphics, without the complexities found in other software packages. It's easy to give your Web pages, video projects and PowerPoint® presentation projects a professional edge with COOL 3D.
- Create great, optimized 3D buttons and images for Web sites
- Generate 32-bit overlay output for video work
- Add the power of 3D to your presentations
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| Xara3D at: www.xara.com/products/xara3d/ is solely designed to create the highest quality 3D text and graphics , such as logos, titles, headings and buttons. It's the perfect way to add impact to your web pages, mailshots and presentations (all images are fully anti-aliased for that smooth, professional quality). Xara3D can also create awesome 3D animations in seconds - GIFs, AVIs and simple Flash movie sequences - and you can even enhance your desktop by saving any animation as a screensaver! |
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GIF Construction Set Professional at: www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html represents the state of the art in GIF animation software. It will assemble your original animations effortlessly through its Animation Wizard, squeeze them down to as close to nothing as possible with its Supercompressor; create eyecatching banners and animated transitions; manage your GIF files; add transparency to existing graphics and a lot more. The extensive documentation and tutorials included with GIF Construction Set Professional will get you up to speed in less time than it takes most elected officials to redefine the truth.
For Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP. |
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Color Wheel Pro at: www.color-wheel-pro.com/index.html is a software tool that helps you create harmonious color schemes based on color theory . Unlike other color utilities, Color Wheel Pro lets you preview your color schemes on real-world examples — websites, logos, product packages — not just on a row of ordinary color boxes. |
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Pixie at: www.nattyware.com/pixie.html is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you'll need for working with colours.
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Easy Thumbnails at: http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.php is a popular free utility for creating accurate thumbnail images and scaled-down/up copies from a wide range of popular picture formats. An elegant interface makes it a snap to find your images and select them for processing individually, in groups, or in whole folders, using a simple file selector and built-in image viewer. You can use slider controls to rotate images and adjust their contrast, brightness, sharpness and quality, and check out the results with the built-in viewer. |
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Corel® Education Solution Packs at: www.corel.com. Committed to helping educators take learning to the next level, Corel now introduces new Education Solution Packs. These three comprehensive licensing options meet a wide range of educational needs, providing everything from award-winning graphics technology to comprehensive training and support. With Corel Education Solution Packs, educators have complete graphics solutions that enrich learning in the classroom, and equip students with the knowledge and tools they'll use in their professional careers. |
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| Timeline Maker at:
www.timelinemakerbasic.com is known for its simple data entry and powerful charting options this popular timeline software just got better. With version 2.1, creating timeline charts and chronologies has never been easier. Many new features have been added to help you organize your experiences, record history, and present your plans.
You can publish your chart as an HTML document or as a graphic image (JPEG, PNG, or BMP) so you can easily place in PowerPoint®. |
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Flash 8 from Macromedia at: www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/overview/ allows designers and developers to integrate video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich experiences that deliver superior results for interactive presentations and e learning. Over one million professionals use Flash and it reaches more than 97% of Internet-enabled desktops worldwide. Although requiring a Flash Player plug-in, computer companies such as Dell and Gateway are now beginning to include this program as a standard inclusion with their computers. Since the file format that is inherent with Flash (SWF) is now recognized as an industry standard, many companies are developing software that will automatically convert their indeginous formats into SWF files and can be included with Flash presentations. Flash Professional 8 is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. With Flash Professional 8, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content. |
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SnagIt from Techsmith at: www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp. Capture screen images, text, video, print output from your Windows PC; quickly enhance with the in-line editor and comprehensive image management – all from SnagIt’s award-winning user interface. SnagIt provides a complete, start-to-finish solution for capturing, editing and sharing content from your Windows PC. |
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Camtasia Studio from Techsmith at: www.techsmith.com/products/studio/default.asp. Camtasia records high-quality videos of your Windows computer screen, enabling you to share your PC knowledge with everyone in your office and around the world. Easily edit, enhance and publish your screen recordings in all the popular multimedia formats. |
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LEAD Capture and Present at: http://www.captureandpresent.com/ is a powerful, easy-to-use, full-featured screen recording application. LEAD Capture and Present captures the changing screen (desktop or window); recording all of the visible activity that occurs on your desktop or specified area (full screen, rectangular area of the screen, active window, active window client, or any window, button, or control on the screen). |
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Macromedia Captivate (formerly RoboDemo) at: http://www.macromedia.com/software/captivate/ automatically records all onscreen actions and instantly creates an interactive Flash simulation. Point and click to add text captions, narration, and e-learning interactions without any programming knowledge. |
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TurboDemo's at: www.presentationpro.com/TurboDemo/ easy-to-use interface allows you to quickly create interactive, viewer-friendly demos and tutorials right from your own desktop. Demos can be incorporated in PowerPoint presentations and can be distributed on the web, on CD and via email. This powerful tool allows you to record your screen and mouse movements and provides versatile output options for any application imaginable. TurboDemo is ideal for software demonstrations, how-to tutorials, online training, documentation and support. |
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PPT2DVD at: www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ is a practica l and easy-to-use application offers a much more intuitional conversion between MS PowerPoint Presentations and Video files. You can either have a MPEG movie or burn a DVD disk as long as there is a valid burner installed on your computer.
Video and Audio files are supported, the exports highly preserve the multimedia of the original PowerPoint files. What's more, you are allowed to customize with the background music, voice narration recorded by yourself and much more. |
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Inspiration 7.5 at: www.inspiration.com Inspiration's integrated diagramming and outlining environments work together to help students comprehend concepts and information. Educators use Inspiration to customize instruction, achieve standards, assess student progress and energize learning. Inspiration strengthens critical thinking, comprehension and writing across the curriculum, in language arts, science, social studies and anytime your students’ need to structure research or other thought processes. |
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SmartDraw at: www.smartdraw.com. SmartDraw is the easy-to-use software for creating business charts and diagrams. SmartDraw Standard includes over 1000 symbols, templates, and clip art images for basic diagramming. SmartDraw also comes in Professional and Professional Plus. |
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OpenMind™ from MatchWare at: www.matchware.net/en/products/openmind/default.htm is a powerful, visual learning tool designed to help you develop and organize ideas. Based on the proven Mind Mapping® theory, it enhances creativity, clarifies thinking and improves memory. OpenMind has been optimized for planning and organizing websites or multimedia projects. Choose from a variety of ready-to-use templates, easy-to-use wizards and professional clipart to improve your layout. Export your completed Mind Map® to Microsoft®® Word, HTML, Mediator or Microsoft®® PowerPoint®. |
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| Crystal Xcelsius at: www.infommersion.com/Products/XL_products.html uses visual modeling to bridge the gap between data analysis and visual presentation, so you can present and interact with business data in ways that were previously unachievable.
Then, you can easily communicate your results to colleagues, with Crystal Xcelsius' one-click integration of your interactive visual analytics and models into PowerPoint slides, PDF documents, Outlook and the Web. |
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Apreso for PowerPoint® at: www.apreso.com/product_overview.asp. Apreso for PowerPoint® can capture an entire PowerPoint® presentation, including what is said and how it is said, and instantly transforms it into a powerful communications tool that can be viewed in a Web browser. By sharing your entire presentation with others you can truly enhance the effectiveness of your message and greatly broaden its reach. |
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Impatica for PowerPoint® at: www.impatica.com makes it easy to add narrated presentations to your web site or e-mail marketing programs. Impatica for PowerPoint® simply converts the PowerPoint® file into a compressed format that is optimized for streaming over the Internet. The Impatica file is typically 95% smaller than the PowerPoint® HTML files. Impatica for PowerPoint® supports most of the features of PowerPoint®, including text, graphics, transitions, animation effects and narration. |
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ViewletCam from Qarbon at: www.qarbon.com/presentation-software/vc/ Complete PowerPoint® Recording. Use ViewletCam to record and publish your PowerPoint® presentations - even the most sophisticated ones. ViewletCam records all elements of your presentations including animations, transitions, voice narration, and video! |
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FlashPaper 2 from Macromedia at: www.macromedia.com/software/flashpaper/ allows anyone to convert printable files into Macromedia Flash documents or PDF files with one click. |
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OptionPower from Option Technologies Interactive at: www.optiontechnologies.com. Add the power of polling to your PowerPoint® presentations with the OptionPower add-in. OptionPower works with the OptionFinder response keypads and takes full advantage of every capability PowerPoint® has to offer. Option Technologies Interactive’s OptionFinder® audience response / group response technology at: www.optiontechnologies.com helps you create an interactive environment where meeting participants can be educated, teams can be strengthened, and entire organizations can provide instant feedback to leaders on key initiatives – all through the use of interactive audience response technology. The OptionFinder Audience Response System (sometimes referred to as a group response system or electronic polling or voting system) adds interactivity to your meeting by putting a wireless OptionFinder response keypad in the hands of each participant. Each presentation will truly engage your audience: Our OptionPower® software, and add-in for Microsoft®® PowerPoint®, makes it easy to add interactive questions to PowerPoint® slides. This dynamic combination of tools stimulates learning, group focus, trust, participation, and energy. |
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Interactive PowerPoint® at: www.turningtechnologies.com. Turning Technologies provides interactive group response and audience response system and solutions using wireless response keypads and PowerPoint® for audience participation during interactive meetings, trade shows, game shows, education, voting polls, and more. Our audience response and group response software is a tool that is imported into a PowerPoint® presentation for immediate feedback from your audience. Turning Technologies is forward thinking -- our primary goal is to develop interactive response systems that take advantage of and stay current with advances in software and hardware technology. We believe achievement of this has established us as the leader in-group response development as well as enabled us to ensure customer confidence that their investment is protected. In addition to focusing on becoming an industry innovator, we realize that group response and audience response systems must be designed with our customers' functionality desires and budget constraints in mind. As a result, we have also adopted a goal of becoming known as the most affordable, easiest to use, feature-rich interactive group presentation tool available on the market. |
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Visual Communicator at: www.seriousmagic.com, enables anyone to create video presentations that focus attention and compel action more effectively, while saving you time and money. It's also easy, allowing those with no experience to get professional results in minutes without any video editing. |
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Audacity at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:
- Record live audio
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files
- Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds togethe
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording
- With Lame...convert WAV files to MP3's (reduces the size)
Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Free software gives you the freedom to use a program, study how it works, improve it, and share it with others. For more information, visit the Free Software Foundation. Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Mozilla web browser, the OpenOffice.org office suite, and entire Linux-based operating systems
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| Free CD-DA Extractor from www.Poikosoft.com rips audio CDs and converts audio files. The application supports the following formats: MP3 (MP1, MP2, MP3), MPEG-4/AAC (M4A), OGG Vorbis (OGG), WAV, Monkey's Audio (APE), and FLAC formats. The application supports buffer underrun prevention technologies. The program offers multithreaded buffered CD-ripping and encoding, copies "copy-protected" CDs, offers error recovery, reads audio from badly scratched CDs, has the ability to download and upload disc information from/to the freedb, the Internet Compact Disc Database. The Free CD-DA Extractor features volume normalizer and compressor, fade in/out, silence deletion from the start and end of a song, and reads and writes CD-Text. |
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| Easy Media Creator 7 from Roxio at: www.roxio.com. Roxio Easy Media Creator™ 7 empowers you to live your digital lifestyle to its fullest potential. Go beyond just cd burning and now organize, edit, preserve and share your digital photos, music, video and data – all within one integrated product that seamlessly combines the complete versions of the latest, award-winning Easy CD & DVD Creator, PhotoSuite, VideoWave, and Napster brands. |
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Nero 6 at: www.nero.com/us/suite.html Nero 6 Ultra Edition is a fully enhanced, user-friendly upgrade to our previous burning software - Nero 5.5. Not only will you receive a complete solution for burning CDs and DVDs, but also a whole collection of applications catering to all your digital media needs. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, Nero 6 Ultra Edition is equipped with different modes for using our software to the maximum capability. |
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CD/DVD Duplicators at: www.discmakers.com/duplicators/ Are you still burning discs one at a time on your PC’s CD or DVD drive? Disc Makers’ CD and DVD duplicators and printers get the job done much faster and cheaper. Regardless of the job you have to get done, we have a duplicator that’s just right – guaranteed. Our manual Reflex duplicators are the fastest, most rugged machines in the industry, and start at a budget-friendly $299! Our Elite automated duplicators and printers let you turn out great-looking CDs and DVDs without leaving your desk – and keep production moving even while you sleep! How rugged are they? Every duplicator we make comes with the fastest, most robust Plextor drives, plus the industry’s longest warranty. If you can't find what you want here, make sure that you search Google. |
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CDStartDummy at: www.dummysoftware.com/adv/cdstart_f.html CDStartDummy! creates autoplay CD-ROMs with the ability to launch any file type you wish ranging from web page presentations, image galleries, to movies. You can include your own splash screen graphic, custom CD icon, sound effects, background music, custom window sizes, and more. |
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CuteFTP from Globalscape at: www.cuteftp.com/cuteftp/compare.asp GlobalSCAPE offers three great versions of CuteFTP to best solve your needs. CuteFTP Home Edition lets you easily transfer files between your computer and remote FTP servers anywhere in the world, using either Microsoft® Windows or Apple Macintosh operating systems. CuteFTP Professional includes advanced security, automation and customization tools for organizations that require serious secure file management. |
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WS_FTP Home at: www.ipswitch.com. WS_FTP Pro is the market leader in Windows-based FTP (file transfer protocol) client software. It enables users and organizations to move files between local and remote systems. WS_FTP Pro is the leading FTP program with millions of users worldwide. It comes from Ipswitch, the pioneers of FTP technology, a company with a track record of over 10 years of successful products, financial stability, and a firm commitment to customer satisfaction. |
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WinZip 9.0 at: www.winzip.com. WinZip is the original and most popular of all Windows Zip file utilities. Combining power and flexibility with ease of use, WinZip appeals to the entire spectrum of data-compression users. First-time users are comfortable with the intuitive WinZip Wizard, while power users appreciate WinZip's seamless Windows Explorer interface and choose the award-winning WinZip Classic interface for their most sophisticated compression needs. In addition to basic zipping and unzipping, features include tight integration with Windows Explorer, support for most Internet file formats, advanced AES encryption, and much more. |
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JustZIPit at: http://free-backup-software.net/index.htm is a tiny freeware ZIP program (a free WinZip alternative) which simplifies ZIP compression to the bare bone! Discarding all clunky gadgets and wizards, JustZIPit ZIPs and Unzips with just one click from your context menu. No more interface nonsense -- JustZIPit and go! |
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PowerPak for PowerPoint®: An Innovative Collection of Lesson and Game Templates at: www.ftcpublishing.com/powerpak.html. Unleash the “Power” in PowerPoint® by utilizing interactive, theme-based lesson plan and game templates. Have you ever wanted to create an interactive Family Feud or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire style game, but just didn’t have the time? PowerPak for PowerPoint® provides all of the groundwork you need to create professionally designed lesson plan presentations and supporting games for your entire class.
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Slides That Win: What is Slides That Win?
Slides That Win was actually created using PowerPoint® so you can replicate and use the examples.
You'll learn to compare over 300 before-and-after PowerPoint® slide examples, understanding what makes an effective slide. Second, you'll get Design Tips, PowerPoint® Tips and Delivery Tips. Claudyne Wilder, author of Point, Click & Wow! and The Presentations Kit: 10 Steps for Selling Your Ideas! and Jennifer Rotondo, Microsoft® Certified PowerPoint® Expert, have combined their twenty years of presentation experience into this powerful CD. You'll find this at:
http://www.wilderpresentations.com/products/cd.html |
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Presentations in a Hurry: Presentations in a Hurry gives you a series of professionally designed PowerPoint® “shells” covering 26 of the most common presentation scenarios, from problem analysis to fund raising. Each shell lets you quickly organize your ideas and insert appropriate content for your specific topic. Simply follow the content recommendations and, once you drop in the text, your presentation will be complete. Every Presentations in a Hurry shell also includes a template design that's carefully chosen for the topic, plus custom graphics and appropriate imagery.
Each Presentations in a Hurry topic has two PowerPoint® files. The presentation file includes 10 to 15 slides that organize your content. Graphical images help you display what you want to say. Besides the professionally designed backgrounds, every file has a plain dark and a plain light background to use with diagrams and charts. Notes on several slides suggest the best way to design a powerful presentation. Every topic gives you a slide to define your audience objective. By filling it out before you create your slides, you will include only the information needed to reach your presentation's objective. You won't spend time inputting information of little interest to your audience. You'll find this at:
http://www.wilderpresentations.com/products/piah.html |
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PowerX for Microsoft® PowerPoint® Touchscreen at: www.eganpowerX.com PowerXtra is a substantial 100” diagonal PowerX touchscreen that projects huge PowerPoint® slides. Three things drive PowerX: PowerPoint®, a projector and your fingertips. It’s true. There’s no new software to learn. There’s no training required. PowerPoint® functionality is at your fingertips, at the screen. No special pens or tools are required. That’s why PowerX is ideal for impromptu presentations and guest presenters. One-touch on-screen notes, easy navigation, useable hyperlinks; these intuitive PowerX features let you get technology out of the way so you can focus on your audience and present with ease. |
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Projectors... In today's market, there are so many different types of projectors that are developed to meet the needs of today's consumers. You need to be the judge of which projector to incorporate into your PowerPoint® solution. At Focused Technology , you have the opportunity to compare the latest in projector technology by using there comparison program. I recommend that you visit them today. |
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RemotePoint Presenter at: www.crystalgraphics.com is honored to be the recipient of Presentation Magazine's Standing Ovation Award. |
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Logitech V500 Cordless Notebook Mouse at: www.logitech.com With its exceptional combination of beauty, comfort, and mobility was built from the ground up for mobile professionals. As the new standard in notebook mice, V500 is based on four ground-breaking new technologies you simply won't find in other notebook mice. |
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GoSpeak! at: http://www.interlinkelec.com/ is an ultra-portable amplification system designed for presentations, sales meetings, training sessions, teaching seminars, trade show demos and more! |
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