Create April Fools' Prank Video

April Fools’ Day is not only a festival but a funny gift. Enjoy the gift and trick a lot with your own prank video.

Happy April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day is all about pranks and practical jokes. Are you going to play April hoaxes? It's really a great amusement. Traditional pranks such as sudden shower, salt surprise, tricky coin and avalanche are not bad for fooling an April fish. But they may seem a bit stale to surprise veteran victims. In contrast, a creative prank would be much better to get someone duped.

There are cans of imaginative juices on April Fools. One fresh idea I would like to introduce is to create an April Fool's prank video from PowerPoint. Videos are now the apple of the netizens' eye. If you are a computer user, you may get engaged in a sea of funny videos on YouTube during your daily surfing online. You may wish you made a staggering video and showed it to the whole world. And of course, you can easily realize that if armed with a video camera.

What if you haven't got such a camera? Still, you can do it - simply employ MS PowerPoint to create a gag video. Other than content authoring for office meetings and school teaching, PowerPoint works magic in game creating as well. It must be a challenging fun to compose your crafts into a living hoax using PowerPoint. Put your April prank into PowerPoint, and take full advantage of those dynamic animations and wipes, shapes and graphics to make an eye-catching presentation. IMPORTANT: Please avoid adding in elements (e.g. race sensitive, discriminated) that may hurt or harm the feelings your victims while editing in PowerPoint.

Nevertheless, you may have to take up a medium to convert the prank presentation to video format as PowerPoint itself lacks the function of saving as video. One of your best assistants is PowerPoint to Video Converter, a dedicated software tool to clone your PowerPoint prank to streamline video within one mouse click. Simply use the software to realize conversion from PowerPoint presentation to video. Then you can upload your April Fool's prank onto YouTube, email it to a friend or co-worker, and connect it to a portable to share with your family.

That is the way that a creative mind takes to celebrate 2009 April Fool's Day – Simply with a crisp prank video out of productive PowerPoint. Sounds saucy, isn't it? So set out your genius of joking and craft a gag video game as gift for the April Fool's festival.

DVD slide show: special Xmas gift for students

Christmas is coming again. The great season of celebration seems a bit negative owing to the financial depression flamed by Wall Street since September this year. The rapid spreading of this crazy crisis has undoubtedly cast a shadow on our current peace. Many families lost economic support, what else lost is the confidence of the children at school. Then how to comfort these hurt hearts, the so-called future of the nation, turns out to be an urgent task teachers ought to implement in this special Christmas.

To show your care and love for your students, a DVD slide show sounds to be a perfect Xmas choice. Why we dare to say so? For one thing, most teenagers today are growing in a computerized world, which makes digital reading and writing their wont instead of the traditional paper acquisition. In other words, they are inclined to a dynamic disc show rather than a still paper letter. For another, it is very convenient for students who haven't yet got a computer as your presentation can be shared on a home DVD player. In addition, your PPT presentation written on DVD discs is very easy for distribution to all of your students.

Here you may ask how you can write the presentation onto DVD. That is straight to the point – a smart conversion tool like PowerPoint to DVD Burner Pro can serve you at that once and for all. Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Pro is an all-in-one program that enables you to burn DVD from PowerPoint and convert PPT to video in every popular format (e.g. AVI, MPEG, FLV, 3GP, MP4, VOB, WMV, MOV, etc). It can also preserve all the lively animations and wipes in PowerPoint. Just a few clicks and you can get complete DVD slide show.

DVD slide show: special Xmas gift for students



With a disc copy you've delivered, your students can enjoy the slide show before TV or PC over some yummy sweets. Nice feel, isn't it?

Let us go back to how to make your PowerPoint presentation as Xmas gift. You have various selections for producing a slide show. You can set such theme as Santa Claus' workshop, a snow landscape or Jesus in Bethlehem and put evocative words in between. Pictures of hot chocolate, ginger bread, snowman-faced sandwiches and other snacks could also be fit to insert as background for your presentation. Enlightening Xmas songs and exciting videos can highlight your slide show all the way on playing. As to the content, tell a tale of a famous celebrity fighting against similar icy situation or state your determination to assist them ever since. What's most important is, trying your best to rebuild their confidence by weaving your love and consideration into the magic gift.

This is truly a great idea to improve the relationship between your students and you. Furthermore, what you have done with Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Pro will be a miracle on Christmas 2008 in their naïve minds.
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Mobile PowerPoint Presentation – Walk Your Ideas Freely

It's a busy world. It's a mobile world. And it's going to be the time that mobile PowerPoint presentation makes its way into the mass market.

The idea of mobile presentation technology is based on Windows and cell phone. It is aimed to project your mobile presentation to merely a flat surface. The revolutionary technology solves the problem of small screen on a cell phone. Due to the technology, users can view bigger and better images of emails, movies, videos and Internet news with a handy phone. The need for mobile presentation will definitely increase as PCs and cell phones continue to converge.



projector mobile phone

While mentioning a presentation, we cannot help thinking of PowerPoint, the best known authoring tool of content. Combine the merits of PowerPoint and mobile presentations, we conclude to the new concept of mobile PowerPoint presentation.

Who can benefit from mobile PowerPoint presentation?

Mobile PowerPoint presentation is friendly to all cell phone and PowerPoint users, especially to business professionals on the go. When you have made a business PowerPoint presentation, and have to lecture it to targeted audience at another place, you can save it on a handy phone instead of a desktop computer. A business PowerPoint presentation can walk and be widely spread as far as you can go.

The next question is

How to make a mobile PowerPoint presentation?

A mobile presentation is no longer a dream but a reality for users of Windows Mobile. To put it another way, you can view and rehearse your presentation on travel if you use a Windows Mobile phone.

But what if you are not using Windows Mobile? Still you can enjoy a mobile slideshow at large. This can be achieved by converting PowerPoint to video that is mobile-compatible. You may use PowerPoint to Video Converter, a versatile PowerPoint to video solution designed to easily and precisely watch a PowerPoint slideshow at anytime and anywhere.

After a video presentation is successfully formed, you can connect it to your cell phone and watch the mobile slideshow with ease.

And if you want to Share your mobile PowerPoint presentation in a large screen, you should have a projector (above-mentioned as mobile presentation technology) built in your mobile phone.

Instead of watching a PowerPoint presentation on a traditional home TV or with a teaching projector, you can play it on a projector mobile phone. Point the device at any wall, and you've got it all. This will surely enrich your visual pleasure in an amazing PowerPoint presentation – handy, flexible, yet no less professional at all.

The following picture illustrates how a projector mobile phone works:


Get a mobile PowerPoint slideshow

No matter it comes to a room lesson or an outdoor lecture, a business meeting or a weekend party, you can take full use of the mobile PowerPoint presentation. It offers a simple way for you to create a mobile PowerPoint presentation that walks your ideas and wows your audience at most.

Sell Yourself Tactfully with a Video Resume

The unprecedented economic crisis has derived some working people out of a job. Are you one of those unfortunate? If the answer is yes, then don’t be upset, just cheer up and find relief in this essay on how to create a competitive resume.

Resumes play a vital role in job hunting. Generally, an attractive resume can work magic in opening the door of your expecting company. To compete in a hot position, you must be more confident and skilled than other candidates to arouse the first consideration of the recruiters. And all your talents and experience should be reflected in a brief resume, which serves as the first impression to potential employers.

Then how to create a catching resume to best sell yourself? Instead of a traditional paper resume, you can try to introduce yourself in a dynamic video. That’s what we call as Video Resume. A video resume is another way for job applicants to showcase their abilities. It allows prospective employers to see, hear and get a feel for how the applicants present themselves.

With the increase of video-hosting sites like YouTube, usage of recorders, DVDs and broadband Internet, video resumes are taking on more popularity. The resumes in lively video are now widely accepted by companies throughout the world for varying professions. However, the need for objectivity in these videos is still a serious issue. Some recruiters feel that a video alone does not give an employer enough information about a candidate to make a proper evaluation of the applicant's potential and more important skills. One article suggests that

"While a video resume introduces applicants on camera, the value such visual imagery adds is debatable. A text resume allows for specific pieces of information to be parsed out and compared across candidates. When the information is delivered verbally, recruiters need to glean the details themselves."

Nevertheless, the advantages of a video resume overweigh its deficiency. It is expected to be the next wave on the world's job market if efficiently evolved. A simple solution to the objectivity issue is to compose rich content for a video resume. Then you can employ MS PowerPoint, a great authoring tool of content, to bridge the gap of loss in objectivity. Use PowerPoint to combine your resume text with pleasant music, elegant images, intuitive charts and vivid animations, then save the dynamic PowerPoint resume as video using a conversion program (e.g. PowerPoint to Video Converter). If you have to make editions on your video resume, just go to the source PowerPoint resume!

It is easy, isn't it? Now, design an eye-popping video resume out of the easy-to-use PowerPoint to capture more job opportunities.

IMPORTANT:

Before submitting a video resume to a recruiter, please remember:

1. Make sure whether video resumes are accepted by the target recruiters.
2. The video length is properly tailored (usu. 1- 3 min) to avoid fatiguing your audience.

Related:

Software for converting PowerPoint to Video: Moyea PPT to Video Converter; Leawo PowerPoint to Video

Close Your Cool Presentation with Handouts

A cool presentation often comes with a boom beginning. Yet it can never be called cool given to a poor closing. Clever presenters always manage to extend the effect of their presentation far beyond the podium. Generally, they would close the presentation by leaving a copy as handout to the audience for future use. To the contrary, some speakers seldom give the listeners any copy of their presentation. They may be too careless to consider it, or simply think it a waste of effort to prepare these duplicates.

Don’t handouts of presentation make any sense? Definitely, it means much to both the presenter and the audience. As far as I know, handouts are helpful to give your audience a thorough idea of your presentation. Because you can’t count on them to remember all that you have presented. Or some audiences may be occasional absent of mind when you are speaking. Or some who are late or temporarily out may not stay as long as your entire presentation. Your considerate handouts therefore must be a helpful hand for the audience to review and reuse.

Then, how to make a handout of your presentation? There are two different mediums that are frequently used. One is traditional paper. Summarize the text part on a piece of plain paper, and print, and distribute to every attendant. Use the medium of paper handouts when you are presenting to a small group, or on a casual occasion. The other one is DVD copies. DVD handouts are the beloved of this digital world. Burn all your presentation stuff onto a DVD disc with a PowerPoint to DVD converter, take a stack of DVD copies that clone every subtlety of your PowerPoint original, and give out those copies around once your presentation is over. The DVD handouts are superior to paper ones in that the former reflect utterly faithful and safe to your source presentation, and appeal more to audience of a formal lecture or meeting by showing your respect.

While preparing a handout of your presentation, you’d better keep these tips in mind:
1. Brief paper handouts. It’s annoying for your audience to take a thick pile of papers. So try to summarize the essence of your presentation in one or two pages. Simplicity is the soul of paper handouts.
2. Create neat DVD copies. The DVD copies should be a real mirror of your marvelous presentation. Pick a reliable conversion tool like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner to take the task. Delicacy and accuracy constitute the key value of DVD handouts.

Note: When you distribute paper handouts, don’t do this at the very beginning of your presentation. Otherwise, the audience will lose interest to head on with you as they already know what are going to happen.

Whatever a paper handout or a DVD copy, it supplements your presentation greatly. With the former, you won’t miss out on any crucial point because even if you forget it on the midway, you still have it in the handout. The latter is fine for a sales presentation or business review. Close your presentation with DVD handouts, and get closer to your audience.

Invisible Linking in PowerPoint

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Invisible Linking is a technique which allows you to hyperlink your presentation automatically. The traditional way of hyperlinking to specific slide, custom show, or even url is to add the hyperlink onto a button. Thus, once you click on the button, you will be transferred to the location. But what if you want to have this done automatically? Here's how it can be achieved:

1. First of all, remove the button as we don't need to have it there.

2. Instead, add a rectangle that covers the entire slide.

3. Double click on the rectangle, set fill color to 99%. Line color to no line.

4. Click OK.

5. Right click on the invisible autoshape, select Action Settings.

6. Select Mouse Over tab, set it Hyperlink to the Slide/URL/Custom Show etc.

7. To make the mouse over work, Click Add Effect > Entrance > Appear.

8. Set the Start from "On Click" to "After Previous".

9. Double click on the added effect.

10. Select Timing tab, set delay to 0.1 seconds or a time of your preference.

11. Click OK.

12. The last step is to ensure that your mouse pointer is visible at the point of the invisble linking. Depending on how your presentation has been set up, this step is optional if your mouse pointer shows up at the point of invisible linking.

There are several ways to achieve this:

Have the slide show running in Kiosk mode (Slide Show > Set Up Show > Browsed at kiosk) or,

Have the mouse pointer visible during slide show view (Right click in slide show, click Pointer Options > Arrow Options > Visible).

There are many other ways that you can make use of the invisble linking. For instance, this technique allows you to hyperlinking automatically from Presentation A to Presentation B's Custom Show either by a single click/ or not at all. Or perhpas, forcing an end show automatically (rather than looping the presentation) when running in kiosk mode.

Plant PowerPoint to DVD, Share Slideshow on TV Screen

No matter to give a class, host a meeting, sell a product or train a team, MS PowerPoint works utterly nice. But it is never enough when you have to resume a PowerPoint piece on another OS but with lower MS programs or to archive it for future use anywhere else.

To troubleshoot the extensibility of a presentation, you can use an intermediate, something like a converter, to clone your PowerPoint content onto a DVD disc. This is really beneficial - because by converting PowerPoint to DVD, you can easily access a slideshow on either a TV or a different computer, and keep it as a memory copy for more delivery.

Choose the Coolest Converter

There is a dazzling string of conversion choices when you Google with “PowerPoint to DVD”. But be sure to pick a truly smart program. Screen capture tools like TechSmith Camtasia Studio 4 and Adobe Captivate 3 do work well, but such tools won’t cost you a small bulk.

The best PowerPoint to DVD solution should be a combination of efficiency and economy. To be frank, Moyea PPT to DVD Burner is a proper software app that empowers you to create cross-platformed presentation (in form of DVD or video) while saving your budget most at just dozens of dollars. And of course, it is a one-step option to burn every subtlety of the PowerPoint source onto a protective DVD. Give it your PowerPoint content, and it let you take a genuine DVD copy in one second.

Stunning PPT Stuff on TV Screen

When you are presenting to a certain group, you can switch the burnt DVD presentation on a big-screen TV (along with a DVD player). There is no need to worry any more about the problem of lights with projectors. You can keep all or most of the lights on when delivering your presentation with TV. Make sure your text and graphics are large enough to be seen on the small the screen. You will probably have to increase the type size significantly.

Another merit of slideshow on TV is to make you closer to your audience. No need to always sit in front of the podium that barrier between you and your audience. You can step down to join in all those eager ears and make a concise connection.

In brief, planting presentation stuffs onto DVD disc is of great help to amend the deficiency of PowerPoint itself, as it offers a straight way to share your amazing slides on TV and thus deliver your ideas more flexibly.