ONLINE TRAINING MADE EASY

Mindflash.com is a web-based service that makes it easy to create online courses. It’s free if you have ten trainees or less. Upload a… Read more

BULLET PROOF

Just two weeks before Joy was scheduled to give a PowerPoint presentation at a statewide convention for P.E.O. women’s clubs, she was sent a copy… Read more

POWERPOINT ON THE WEB

We’ve been subjected to boring Powerpoint slideshows for years, and they still won’t go away. So rather than fight the situation, we have… Read more

USING MICROSOFT OFFICE ON FACEBOOK

For those who want to share Microsoft Office documents with Facebook friends, or switch back and forth between editing a document on the web or their… Read more

SMARTDRAW 2010

“SmartDraw 2010” is very similar to Microsoft’s Visio diagramming and charting program but costs less: $197 versus Microsoft’s $259 for… Read more

POWERPOINT PICTURES

A graduate student we know says it’s much easier to use PowerPoint to create and display complex illustrations than using Photoshop. But PowerPoint… Read more

OFFICE ON A STICK

Corel has come out with a new Office suite on a flash drive, a memory stick that plugs into the USB slot on a Windows computer. Corel calls it… Read more

PROMPTPUPPY REPLACES A TELEPROMPTER

When you’re giving a speech, you may wish you had a teleprompter, but these can cost thousands of dollars. For $20 instead, you can get a… Read more

NOW PRESENTING

A free program called Flypaper is a fast and easy way to post slide shows to the Web. The results look much the same as any presentation created… Read more

A SLIMMER POWERPOINT

We reduced a 21 megabyte PowerPoint presentation on travel to Guatemala to 1 megabyte by using a Windows utility called PPTminimizer. That’s a 96… Read more