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.
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…
Here are two extremely funny renditions of the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) that is such a part and parcel of the whole Windows series… I dug them up from this site today.
Have fun !
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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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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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I can’t live for long without re-installing my Windows. It stems out of this habit of downloading all the junk in the world and trying them out. Of course, this is quite necessary for me to be able to write decent reviews of the various cool tools that …
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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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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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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 of encryption which can be used for this purpose - all with …
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