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…


DNSRank: New kid in the same old block

 

DNSRank is an all new juvenile entrant in a jungle full of raging tigers. What I mean to say is that, they’ve decided to join the whole SEO bandwagon with almost no originality on their part - which might make it very difficult for them to survive for long.
The site definitely has that Web 2.0 jazz & sparkle to it …

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Google Presently goes live… finally !

 

Finally the wait is over. Google’s managed to round-up it’s online office suite by launching Google Presentation - the online equivalent of Microsoft’s PowerPoint. However, long standing speculations regarding the name of this application has been proven wrong in the sense that this app. isn’t called Presently - rather this app. doesn’t have a name at all. It’s being referred …

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A hands-free automated online backup system called IDrive-E

 

Loss of critical data can prove to be one of the most horrifying nightmares specially if it involves official documents. Worst case scenario could lead to one getting sacked. And even if it’s only personal documents, who would ever want to see years of fond memories (photographs, videos etc.) disappear overnight due to some silly hardware malfunction ! The importance …

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Top 31 free alternatives to YouTube (video hosting sites)

 

Here’s a short list of free video hosting sites that you can use to display your streaming video content - apart from YouTube, that is. Most of these provide code for individual videos to enable you to embed them in your site directly. I’ll try and include a …

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