When you are holding presentations on a big screen with a computer mouse you know that it may be quite difficulty to follow the mouse cursor around. That’s fine if you have presentation software that gives you the tools at hand to highlight areas or write on the screen. If you are stuck with the [...]

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Windows 7 users who press Win+ or Win- in their operating system open the Magnifier tool to zoom in or out of the screen. The tool has been designed for visually impaired users and not so much for use in presentations. It is nevertheless a handy shortcut especially if you sometimes encounter screen contents that [...]

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Not every software program that is used in presentations supports onscreen aids to visualize or highlight key areas. Microsoft PowerPoint and a few others do but what if Firefox, Internet Explorer or a desktop software are used in the presentation? That’s where Pointofix comes into play. The portable software program provides access to onscreen tools [...]

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If you need to create a presentation but do not have access to Microsoft Power Point you can either use another software program like Open Office to create the presentations or use an online service like 280 Slides to create them. The benefit of using an online solution is that it can be used without [...]

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I do a lot of writing. I also create presentations on occasion. Naturally, being an open source/Linux advocate, I use OpenOffice for all of my needs. One area where OpenOffice might consider a little less than user-friendly is the adding new templates for your use. Once you understand how this is done you will think [...]

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Acrobat.com Presentations is a new Adobe online service that allows users to create presentations online. The service was build with Flash which is the only other requirement next to an Adobe account. The main focus of Presentations is work collaboration as it makes it possible to work with multiple contributors on the same presentation. The [...]

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Looks like it is Open Office day here at Ghacks. We bring you another cool plugin for Open Office after the incredible useful Presenter Console plugin for Open Office. Sun’s Presentation Minimizer is available as a plugin for all supported operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It can be used to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

DemoHelper is a lightweight portable software for Microsoft Windows operating systems that will aid the user during presentations. It adds two new possibilities to the computer system. The first is to zoom in and move around on the computer screen while the second allows to draw on the computer monitor. Both functions can be triggered [...]

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animoto is a site which allows video presentations to be made in a minimal amount of time, claiming to be the killer of slideshows (although in reality they are slideshows!). The end result is an extremely slick slideshow. The site makes creating a video presentation easily: to create one, all you must do is simply [...]

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