iSpring Free: Convert your PowerPoint presentations into Flash for sharing on the web

 

If you’ve ever wanted to share PowerPoint presentations on the web but cursed at the lack of of a way - iSpring Free can do it for you for free! It’s this really cool plug-in that inserts itself into PowerPoint and provides you with a button that creates a flash-based sideshow at a single click.

iSpring Free

And not just that - in case you wanted to incorporate flash animations / movies into a normal PowerPoint presentation, iSpring Free can do that for you as well. The free version doesn’t offer much in the way of choices - for that you’ve to go Pro. iSpring Pro offers a horde of custom transition effects,  animations, sound syncing, embeddable hyperlinks, custom slide-show player etc. However, for our daily use, this is by far one of the best options.

There are quite a few online services like SlideShare which convert as well as host the slide-shows for you - but then again, there’s a question of branding. All such hosted presentations come branded with SlideShare’s logo. With iSpring Free you’re totally free to brand it the way you like…


A quick remedy to speed up / resume your file copy process in Windows

 

The default file copy method in Windows (any given version) is severely handicapped. First and foremost - it’s SLOW. The probably the worst part of it is that there’s no way to resume on error. Supposing your file copy operation throws up an error (say, due to some …

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LC ISO Creator: Probably the smallest (and portable) no-frills ISO maker

 

Here’s a quick pointer. If you want an CD/DVD ISO Image Creator that does just what it’s intended to do, you should try this fantastic freeware named LC ISO Creator.
It’s this incredibly tiny download (14kb compressed) and runs straight out of box - i.e. no installation is required. It doesn’t require any crappy driver installation either. This can make it …

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Change your default Bengali font in Windows XP with Font-fixer

 

If you do a whole lot typing in Bengali and are bothered by the fact that XP always gets you started with that ugly font named Vrinda, here’s a quick fix for you. Font Fixer is a tiny utility (72 KB) that provides you with a one-step solution for setting you default Bengali font in XP to whatever other font …

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TrueCrypt: A Free Opensource On-the-fly Disk Encryption tool

 

Usage of file / disk encryption has been long prevalent - but never like that of the present times. With the explosive growth of the internet and consequently ever-increasing risk of hacking, protection of one’s private / sensitive data has gained utmost importance. There are hundreds of methods …

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