Put PowerPoint presentation to the iPod

I don't mean a simple patchwork of slide images onto iPod. Rather, what I mean is to put a whole PowerPoint slideshow to the iPod, without any loss of dynamic animations or recorded narrations.

Expecting your presentation to go on as sleek as a movie on the iPod, you can choose to convert PowerPoint to an iPod ready video. MS PowerPoint has a set of Save As options, like HTML and PDF, yet it doesn't support a Save As iPod Movie function. Nevertheless, that doesn't matter, while you can take some standalone conversion apps like PowerPoint to iPod Movie. The PowerPoint to iPod converter is really a two-click option, never bothering you to those complicated yet vain techniques.

Here is the exact practice:

First, download a copy of PowerPoint to iPod Movie and install it on your computer.
Go to the download center of PowerPoint to iPod Movie, and pick a trial or a registered copy. It is recommended that you try the free demo to test its effect. If the program works well with your OS, then you can consider installing a full version on your PC.

Second, input one or more PPT file(s) that you would like to convert to iPod movie.
Click Add to import a PowerPoint file (PPT, PPS, PPTX, and PPSX) to the converter.

Make sure the Style has been set to "iPod Movie".

Finally, start converting after every essential is well set.
Customize the conversion parameters, e.g. watermarking the movie, adjusting video quality, inserting background music or your own narration, if it is necessary. Otherwise, simply click Start to begin the conversion.

When an iPod movie comes out, it's easy to hook it onto your own iPod. The sounds, animations, and your recorded voice narration can play as well on the iPod as you deliver the same PowerPoint presentation with a projector. Moreover, you can upload it to your blog or YouTube, making it quickly available to your friends and readers.

Apart from the above method I've mentioned, there are several other tips on putting PowerPoint presentation to iPod:

How to view PowerPoint on iPod
Put PowerPoint in Your iPod
HOW-TO: Put PowerPoint on your iPod Photo
Turn Your iPod into the Ultimate PowerPoint Accessory

Enjoy your PowerPoint tour on iPod!

Smart Idea to Shut out PowerPoint Hackers

A dozen of holes set off a sweeping stir in millions of PowerPoint users on Tuesday, May 12. Hackers are seeking to attack users of MS PowerPoint. The critical attack affects a string of sister products like Microsoft Office 2000, 2003, 2007 and XP, as well as PowerPoint Viewer and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats. Despite 14 patches by Microsoft to plug the PowerPoint flaws that may allow remote control of a compromised PC, users may face potential threats from the existing 13 PowerPoint holes.

How do you keep yourself away from a hacker? Obviously, filing your big presentation in PowerPoint, a sort of great vulnerability, is never a wise choice. Following the after-wit of Microsoft security update is neither ideal. Suppose an attack to PowerPoint program that triggers the overall paralysis of your Office kit, even the entire operating system with a good collection of essentials. It must be a huge loss unless utterly prepared with a backup.

Then what is a viable workaround to prevent your presentation and PC from attacks? The crucial core is making a safe backup for every important presentation. The backup could be either an online video or a takeaway DVD, for both video and DVD are read-only formats that work efficient in preventing their data from corruption.

Plan 1 Burn PowerPoint presentation onto DVD as portable backup

Burning a presentation, especially a presentation of importance, onto a DVD disc is a top practice of protection. When your presentation is burned to DVD with a burning expert like PowerPoint to DVD Burner, it is not only safer, but also more professional in look, more extensive in use. As a presentation is saved in standalone DVD, it will never be afraid of a PowerPoint hacker. Besides, you can take a DVD presentation to any computer regardless of the installation of PowerPoint, and play your presentation like a professional movie on a DVD player.

Simple steps of burning:

Sort out one or more PowerPoint files as concerned, and input into the PowerPoint to DVD burner. Of course, you can also add your favorite music, insert a logo of your identity, or custom DVD menus using the burning software. Once OK with all, click Start to leave the burner the entire burning task. In a minute or two, a staggering slideshow in organized DVD will appear at your sight.

For a detailed description of burning PowerPoint to DVD, refer to the corresponding how-to stuff

Plan 2 Save PowerPoint presentation to video as online backup

If you prefer an online option, then you can save your presentation to video that can probably be published on the Web. Take the all-in-one PowerPoint to Video Converter, or simply the specific PowerPoint to FLV Converter, to energize your PowerPoint presentation on a blog, a Podcast, YouTube and MySpace in form of FLV.

While finalized in flash video, your presentation can withstand any attack from a PowerPoint hacker. Another beneficial plus is that it is helpful to bring a web stance of your presentation in popular FLV.

A Quick Look at Converting:

Similar to the burning in Plan 1, all you have to do is done in 3 clicks with the PowerPoint to video converter- import the specified presentation(s), set the output video options, and click Convert to start the conversion process. Get yourself a cup of coffee.

Related how-to guide, see in Tutorial of converting PowerPoint to video

After the completion of converting, you can upload the video presentation to any supported Web destination.

To be concluded, keep in mind the importance of backing your PowerPoint presentations up, either in protective DVD or Web video, to shut out dangerous hackers and safeguard your PC stuff.

Safe Teaching over Swine Flu: E-learning with Video Slideshow

Despite an official denial of affection on teaching, the ongoing expansion of influenza A (H1N1), nicknamed swine flu, is bringing a new campaign of school closing in some states of the most affected countries. According to the latest report from Teaching Life Today, up to 300 schools with nearly 170,000 students have been shut in USA due to this serious epidemic.

The swine flu does pose a challenge to the traditional way of teaching in school. Fear grows as more cases of H1N1 swine flu are published. Populated public organizations like schools, stores and clubs, now are assumed as a terrifying threat to most people in the suspected regions. On the contrary, home turns to be the safest escape for everyone. When being dismissed from school, shall our children subside their lessons? The answer is NO. They can continue their courses at home as well via the almighty Internet. That is what we have called "e-learning".

E-learning during Swine Flu Epidemic

E-learning is a welcome during the separation period. In this teaching and learning method, teachers and students get interactive via online activities. Needless to worry about the distance, both a teacher and a student can use MS PowerPoint to teach and learn. Teachers employ the authoring tool to deliver a lesson while students take it to compose their homework. However, due to the inborn deficiency of PowerPoint in Internet delivery, there may be a problem of uploading the presentation stuff to the Web. As to the case, we can switch the spiny PowerPoint to video, a friendly format to the Web. In other words, transfer a course presentation into a video slideshow.

The video slideshow should contain every component of the course presentation, e.g. animations, graphics, transitions, background sounds, video clips, etc. A sound bridge between PowerPoint and video is PowerPoint to Video converter which displays a power to convert PowerPoint to any popular video in a click. Simply get the teaching PPT file into the software, and then it will output a sharp video slideshow in a minute.

Next, put the video slideshow of course content onto YouTube and invite the teacher or student(s) as concerned to share, email the video presentation to the designator, or publish on some available Homepages or blogs for group discussion.

On days of swine flu plague, it is never impossible to continue teaching and learning. Try the easy e-learning with the best of PowerPoint and video. Get more about PowerPoint to YouTube Video at http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/blog/

Sound in PowerPoint Strikes on another Computer

The sound problem is one that frequently vexes PowerPoint presenters. Your PowerPoint presentation with a sound plays well on your home or office computer. However, when you move it to the spotlight, usu. a different computer from yours, the sound seems missing. So where has it gone?

Insert a sound into PowerPoint

Four possible situations should be the chief culprits of the problem.

• 1. There is no copy of the sound file on the target computer. That is, you saved the PowerPoint presentation alone on a USB stick or CD, but forgot to package the source of its media clips including the sound. The sound object in the PowerPoint will not work on a different place unless being located in the same folder with the presentation.
  Remember - When moving a PowerPoint presentation to a different computer, keep a complete copy of the presentation along with the sound file and other effects, and locate the complete folder to the target computer for presenting.


• 2. The target computer of your presentation has a different OS or an earlier version of PowerPoint from the source one. If you create a presentation on Windows, there may be a hinder to play on a Mac. Or suppose the two Operating systems are the same, still you may face the sound problem of playing a 2007 PowerPoint presentation on a 2003 version; for some functions in a PowerPoint 2007 file are not supported by earlier versions.
  Tips - Cross-platform puzzle is a hot potato that requires a great command of PowerPoint techniques. If you don't want bother yourself with such complicated skills, you can try some easy alternatives. To ward off the issue straight ford, a once-and-for-all cut is to convert and save your PowerPoint presentation to DVD with PowerPoint to DVD and video converter. Your presentation in DVD can travel safe without a worry of sound loss, and play in full on any target platform.


• 3. The sound file is a linked one rather than embedded into the presentation. You simply inserted the sound file (usu. an audio format other than WAV, the only one accepted by PowerPoint) from Internet, and forgot to take the source with the presentation to the target computer. The linking-to-PowerPoint practice always triggers a strike of the sound on another computer, as the sound source is separate from the presentation. Seems back to Situation 1.
  Note that you have packaged all the effects for the presentation in the same folder and place the entire folder to the target computer.


• 4. The embedded sound file in WAV is too large to work on the target computer. Although the sound file in WAV, the only audio format that allows embedding into a PowerPoint presentation, goes with your presentation to the destination computer, it may fail to play well there due to the large size.
  Solution - Adjust the size of the sound file to an appropriate level. By default, a WAV file to embed in PowerPoint is 100 KB or less. Smaller size is preferable for a smooth play at any computer.

Related: Free download PowerPoint to DVD and video converter

DVD and video Photo Albums for Mother's Day

The second Sunday of May is Mother’s Day, a special occasion for mothers, grandmothers and mothers-to-be, the greatest group nurturing and raising our families. Are you ready to present our honorable mothers with the warmest wish? You may gift your mom a cute card, a thankful poem, a banquet of flowers or anything that caters to her. Serve her a delicious dinner, and tidy the house to leave mother a light break.

Apart from the above gift ideas, you can also do something creative – i.e. make a DVD or video photo album for the special day using PowerPoint. Photos of your beloved mom deserve a careful collection in PowerPoint and delightful display on TV or Web to rejoice all the family staff with sweet memories.

Before the very beginning of Mother’s Day DVD photo album, ensure you have the following three items:

I. Digital photos of your mother’s or the family’s

II. Music to background the PowerPoint photo album

III. Moyea PPT to DVD Burner

Sample video of Mother’s Day photo album

Next, do the following steps to make a DVD or video photo album for dear mama.

1. Import and edit the Mother’s Day photos in PowerPoint.

a. Create a new PowerPoint slideshow (*.pps, or *.ppsx). Here we take 2007 MS PowerPoint as an example.

b. Open the PPSX file, and select the Insert tab. In the Illustrations group, click the Photo Album icon to import the photos from your local drive.

c. Insert the background music of Mother’s Day and set as “Play across Slides”. Animate and add word illustrations to each photo slide.

d. You can also use the Record function to narrate for the Mother’s Day slideshow.

2. Input into PowerPoint to DVD Burner for a video or DVD slideshow.

a. Install Moyea PPT to DVD Burner on your PC or notebook. Run it and import the Mother’s Day slideshow (*.pptx).

b. In the Options tab, select the output as DVD or Video as necessary.

c. Make custom settings like logos, DVD menus for the output slideshow. Otherwise, simply click Burn to convert the slideshow to DVD or video.

Now you can connect the DVD or video photo album to a TV or a video hosting site to share with your family on Mother’s Day this May.

Away from Swine Flu: Make a Health Presentation for Public

Human flu and bird flu are not foreign to us. Recently, we are experiencing a new epidemic - swine flu or swine influenza.

According to the report from BBC, swine flu is a respiratory disease that caused by influenza type A which infects pigs. The disease has many types and the infection is constantly changing. Although it has not normally infected humans until now, the latest form clearly does, and can be spread from person to person - probably through coughing and sneezing.

Infection control experts are trying to respond to the current cases of swine flu in US and Mexico. What can we ordinaries do to fight against the dangerous disease? There are many effective measures to take, e.g. keeping clean, being away from such patients or getting a treat if infected. Another good idea is to play as a messenger, telling the harm of the crazy swine flu to those who are not aware of it. Here are some suggestions of sending your kind message.

Number one, make a health video presentation and put it on the Web.

If you are an enthusiast of public services, you can take the method. Compose the content of the swine flu with PowerPoint, a great tool to make your presentation professional looking. Remember to include concrete info on the disease, particularly on the danger and the measures. Then convert the health presentation to web-ready video with PowerPoint to Video Converter. That is because presentations in video are friendlier to a website than in PowerPoint itself. Finally, publish the health video to YouTube, MySpace, your blogs and podcasts.

Number two, create a DVD slideshow of swine flu and display to your audience.

It will apply well to families, schools and organizations, where exist a frequent exposure to public activities that may turn on a high risk to suffering swine flu. The little and the old, relatively weak in constitution, are more likely to suffer swine flu. Hence, it is very essential for those in charge of the above groups, e.g. parents, teachers and executives, to deliver an immediate presentation on the disease for prevention.

Use PowerPoint to organize your idea on the epidemic, for instance, add graphics and pictures to illustrate what is swine flu, how dangerous it is, what we can do to stay safe, etc. To play the health presentation on TV or another computer, save it to a DVD disc using PowerPoint to DVD Burner. Such conversion is necessary as PowerPoint is not support by TV and your PowerPoint presentation may encounter a version problem on a different computer. Last, share the DVD health slideshow with your family, students, or colleagues.

Swine flu itself is nothing to fear unless we have a complete control of it. We cannot control the disease before get a though idea of what it is. A health presentation is therefore worthy once we deliver it in time to whomever we love and care.

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Two Ways to Publish a PowerPoint Photo Album onto the Web

Source: PowerPoint Blog http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/blog/

There are two ways to publish your photo album in PowerPoint to the Web. See the details as following:

Method I Use the Save as Web Page in the PowerPoint

It is a straight way to make your photo album available to Web visitors. The method requires you to specify a Web server or other available computer when choosing a location for the file.

1. In the PowerPoint (default to 2003), open the photo album you want to publish to the Web.

2. On the File menu, select Save as Web Page.

3. Click Publish to enter the Publish as Web Page interface.

4. Under Publish what?, click Complete presentation.

Then do any of the following:

o To set additional Web page formatting and display options, click Web Options, select the options you want, and then click OK.

o To optimize for a particular browser or browser version, under Browser support, select an option.

o To set the page title bar text for your Web page, under Publish a copy as, click Change, type the text in the Page title box, and then click OK.

5. Under Publish a copy as, click Browse, select a location from the folder list, type a name for the Web page in the File name box, select Web page in the Save as type box, and then click OK.

6. Last, click the Publish button.

Note: To immediately see how your photo album looks in your browser after you publish it to the Web, select the Open published Web page in browser check box in the Publish as Web Page dialog box.

Method II Make your photo album into web-ready video

It is a cool choice to do so especially when your photo album is of shining animations and background sounds. It is obvious that a simple Save as Web Page function is not enough to keep such subtlety of your presentation work. Now, you can choose this method as a workaround, i.e. to convert the photo album presentation to video slideshow for Web.
The conversion couldn't be easier with PowerPoint to Video converter. Add your photo album file into the software, set the output to .avi, .wmv, .flv or else, and click Start to convert to video photo slideshow.

convert PowerPoint photo album to web-ready video

Then you can upload and publish the video photo album onto the website as you like.

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