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Microsoft is ready to deliver the first Beta for Windows 7. The company will move Windows Vista’s successor from pre-Beta stage into fully-fledged Beta in early 2009. However, indications from the Redmond giant reveal that Windows 7 Beta 1 is just around the corner.

In this context, Microsoft has already started sending out invitations for the Windows 7 Beta 1 testing program.

Be prepared to touch the new sparking wave of Windows iteration, n-this time Windows 7 gonna ROCK the world.

Windows 7

Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional

Reviewed by Geetesh Bajaj, professional Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, view more info of the writer at http://www.geetesh.com/

Introduction
About PPT2Flash Professional
Download & Installation
Using PPT2Flash Professional
How PPT2Flash Fared
Pricing and Support
Conclusion

Introduction

PPT2Flash Professional is a PowerPoint add-in which allows you to convert your PowerPoint presentations into Flash SWF movies with all the slide objects and movements recreated. It works with all PowerPoint for Windows versions from 2000 to 2007.

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About PPT2Flash Professional

PPT2Flash Professional is from Wondershare, a company based in Guangdong, China that creates custom applications for the enterprise market. Learn more about their products and download a free trial version of PPT2Flash Professional from their site…

My contact at Wondershare for this review was Sabrina Fu - thank you, Sabrina.

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Download & Installation

Download the installer from the link on Wondershare’s product page, run the setup routine and follow the instructions. If you are using PowerPoint 2007, you’ll end up with a PPT2Flash Professional tab on the Ribbon as you can see in Figure 1.

Figure 1: PPT2Flash Professional tab on the Ribbon

All the options on the PPT2Flash Professional tab are explained below:

1. Publish: This group of options allows you to publish presentations to Flash, and view them.
2. Settings: This brings up the Conversion Settings dialog box where you can tweak various output options.
3. Player: Here you can select a template for the Flash output.
4. Edit: This is where you can make changes, add Flash SWF movies on slides, insert quizzes, import audio, record narration, or do screen captures. Note that you insert quizzes with Quiz Creator — and that is a separate product.
5. About: This group allows you to register and update the program — in addition, there are direct links to the user guide and online forums.

Note: Users of earlier versions of PowerPoint will find a new PPT2Flash menu –

this menu provides the same options as described above.

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Using PPT2Flash Professional

We use an evaluation presentation as a benchmark to determine how any PowerPoint to Flash converter product works. Learn more about this benchmark presentation developed with our FlashPPT site here…

We’ll share results of this benchmark later on this page — first, let’s explore how you do the actual Flash conversion using PPT2Flash.

1. Open any existing presentation inside PowerPoint. With the presentation open, select the PPT2Flash Professional tab on the Ribbon, as shown in Figure 1 above.
2. Click the Publish button to bring up the dialog box that you can see in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Publish dialog box

You’ll find that you can publish the presentation to various outputs:

1. SWF / Web: Creates a Adobe Flash SWF with or without the HTML container
   LMS: Generates output with various Learning Management Systems such as SCORM and AICC
   EXE: Creates an executable file that will work on Microsoft Windows systems
   E-mail: Sends converted Flash output as an email attachment

1. Once you select the output option, click the Convert button — this will start the conversion process — the time taken for conversion will depend upon the size and complexity of your source presentation.

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How PPT2Flash Fared?

This benchmark presentation had 20 slides with content of various types: pictures, clip art, shapes, narration, music, Flash movies, videos, etc. Each slide was given between 0 to 5 points each for a total of 100 points, and 50 extra points were allotted to the program interface, support options, output, PowerPoint 2007 compatibility, and pricing.

PPT2Flash Professional gained in many areas, such as maintaining transparency of both inserted and native PowerPoint slide objects, PPT2Flash did an amazing job

Inserted video files converted well too — and text quality and positioning of shapes was very accurate.

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Pricing and Support

PPT2Flash Professional costs $199.95. Multi-user and academic pricing options are available.

Support is through email, an online FAQ, and user forum.

Conclusion

PPT2Flash Professional provides most features you may want in a PowerPoint to Flash converter product — and works best in situations where you want to create small output files in Flash SWF that you can put on your website, CD, or send as an email. Click here to view more info about this product.

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As we’re hearing, Microsoft is ready to deploy Vista SP2 and Windows 7 Beta 1. Beside it Office SP2 is being prepared and today Microsoft announced Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System.

TechNet Blog says:

We’re pleased to announce that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is expected to be released in the near future.  Although we aren’t yet announcing the exact release date, it will fall between February and April of 2009.

Historically, we have waited to communicate details about service packs until their release (or very shortly before).  As we communicated with SP3 for Office 2003 and SP1 for the 2007 Office System, we will be taking steps to increase transparency and visibility into the Office servicing model at the request of our customers.  To that end, we would like to start sharing some details into what will be included in SP2 for the 2007 Office system.  This is by no means an exhaustive list of everything included in this service pack and we will share more details prior to the final release, but we want to start communicating to customers what they should be aware of at a high level. 

To be fair, this is not the first time we have talked about SP2.  Several months ago, we announced that we’ll be further demonstrating our increased commitment to interoperability by including support for Open Document Format (ODF), XML Paper Specification (XPS), and Portable Document Format (PDF) in SP2.  In addition to those file format additions, some other highlights that you’ll find in SP2 include:

For Office Desktop Programs:

• Improved Outlook Calendaring Reliability
• Improved Outlook Performance
• Enabling Object Model support for Charts in PowerPoint and Word
• Improved cryptographic functionality by supporting all cryptographic algorithms offered by the operating system
• Improved functionality in Excel’s charting mechanism
• Ability to ungroup SmartArt graphics (and as a result, the ability to add animations to them in PowerPoint)
• Ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard
• Tool that enables the uninstall of Office client Service Packs

For Servers:

• Performance and manageability improvements to variations in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) including STSADM commands for repairing links between source and target pages
• Improvements around processing status approvals from Office Project Web Access into Office Project Professional 2007
• Improvements to read-only content databases and index rebuild timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

 

In the coming weeks, individual product teams across Office will begin updating their blogs and highlighting some of the specific work that they’ve included in SP2.  You can find the links to some of the blogs at the end of the post.

In the next few days we will also invite a select set of Office enterprise customers to a private SP2 beta.  From these customers we hope to gather great feedback about the service pack, including areas that we’ll need to improve upon before we release it to the general public.  Based on the success of the SP2 beta program and customer needs, we will certainly evaluate whether to expand this in the future.

Please check back for additional updates!

Thanks,

Office Service Pack Team

Source: TechNet Blog

Microsoft Office, Uncategorized

Probably a program was registered to launch automatically when you inserted a DVD, and that program was removed and when you insert any other DVD and try to launch a program, it prompts “Application not found.”

Its simplest trick that helps to get rid of such problem as well as initialize drive’s (including hard drives and DVD drives) context menu to default.

How to-

1. Run regedit (Registry Editor)
2. Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
3. Remove or delete MountPoint2 key completely and close Registry Editor.
4. Logoff or restart your PC to take effect.
5. Now check n double click on your DVD drives. Happy Windows computing.

How do I ?, Windows 7, Windows Vista

Windows 7 has lots of features over Windows Vista, that make the difference of the Windows revolution. Send Feedback tool is one among those features & tools. It is used to direct submission of suggestions & report bugs of Windows 7 to Microsoft.

Its link has been placed just before min|max|close button of Windows 7 explorer but sometimes its annoying so here is a small registry trick that helps to get rid of Send Feedback tool’s link.

It works all Windows 7 M3 build 6801 or later builds.(not tested)

How to-

1. Run regedit (registry editor) and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
2. Create or modify a DWORD value named FeedbackToolEnabled and set 0 and any even unsigned integer value (like 0,2,4…and so on) to hide or remove the link and set 1 or any odd unsigned integer value (like 1,3,5…and so on) to show or enable the Send Feedback tool link in Windows 7 explorer.
3. Logoff or Restart your PC to take effect.

How do I ?, Windows 7