Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Free Stanford Engeering Seminar

If you are looking for a way to learn online, Standard University may be your best choice.
Actually, it offers free lectures, interviews, and material available for download on iTunes.
For engineering seminars, every term has new arrivals.
All is required to register for free on the Stanford website and then you attend the seminars.
Here is the seminar list of this term.

AA-294: Case Studies in Aircraft Design
AA-297: Seminar in Guidance, Navigation, & Control
BIOE-393: BioEngineering and BioDesign Forum
BIOMEDIN-393: Statistics for Research
CS-547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
EE-380: Seminar on Computer Systems
EE-402T: Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries
ME-396: Design and Manufacturing Forum
MSE-450: Lessons in Decision Making
MSE-472: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

First PowerPoint®2007 to Flash Converter on the Planet

Marking as a big milestone of its PowerPoint-based E-learning content authoring tools, Wondershare today announced the release of PPT2Flash Professional PowerPoint® 2007 Compatible Version, the only current PowerPoint® 2007 to Flash converter on the planet.

Now, it is time to learn details of the compatibility of PPT2Flash Professional with PowerPoint® 2007.
http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-2007.html

See a sample:
http://www.sameshow.com/demo/ppt2flash2007_sample/index.html

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Top Ten Clever Tips to Send a PowerPoint via E-mail

As the domain form of communication, E-mail messaging has long ago exceeded telephone traffic and become the most popular information delivery service.
When it comes to PowerPoint, you will always it troublesome. Audio or video may be lost. The sending may be failed. If you can learn some clever tips and tricks for your E-mail program, you will have more success of sending a PowerPoint via E-mail.

Of course, you may have umpteen ways to send a PowerPoint via E-mail, but it will be nice if you can find the easiest way. Here are some tips for you.

1. Send a PowerPoint with Audio via E-mail
Before we go on, we should learn something about how audio works in PowerPoint.

Usually, audio in WAV format will be embedded in PowerPoint while audio in MP3 or other file formats will be linked to PowerPoint. And more, sound files larger than 100 KB (i.e. anything but a short sound effect) will be linked to your presentation rather than embedded in it.

What is the difference between Linked and Embedded? Embedded means that when you move the PPT on your computer or e-mail it, audio will be moved together. When audio is linked, it will be lost if you move the PPT or e-mail it.

Then how to send a PowerPoint always with audio?
For wav audio which is greater than 100 KB, increase the 100 KB default up to 5 MB.
PowerPoint ->Tools -> Options->General (Link sound with file size greater than 5000 KB)

For other audio files
Copy the sound file and the PowerPoint presentation in a same folder (Short path is recommended) and then reinsert the sound file to PowerPoint. Send the whole folder via E-mail.

2. More Ways to Insert Audio to PowerPoint
The usually practice to insert audio to PowerPoint is
Insert sound to a slide :
PowerPoint -> Insert (Menu) -> Movies and sounds -> ...

Sometime you have one more option: Insert sound as slide transition
The audio will play as transition and will be embedded to the PowerPoint file. So when you move the presentation file, the music will not be lost.
PowerPoint -> Slide Show -> Slide Transition -> Modify Transition (Right Panel) -> Sound -> Other Sound

And more tips ...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

QuizCreator - Upgrade Package Released !

There is an upgrade version of QuizCreator released with these updates
1. Add new template
2. Update Item List

Download the upgrade package here
http://www.sameshow.com/download/quiz-creator-download.php?sid=5

View a Screenshot of QuizCreator Template

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