Glide Presenter 2.0
Glide Presenter is a full featured presentation application to create rich multimedia presentations of any size that can easily be shared online, from TransMedia. As the newest addition to the Glide web based operating system and office suite, Glide Presenter adds a new dimension to presentations while at the same time solving the age-old problem of sharing large files online.
Traditional presentation tools offer limited support for creating and sharing rich multimedia presentations. Furthermore, adding even a small amount of media to a traditional presentation can make it too large to share via email.
Featuring a selection of themes and full multimedia support, Glide Presenter helps you create presentations that virtually reach out and greet your audience. Easily add video, music, photos, documents, bookmarks, personal websites, calendar events and more to effectively communicate your message and stimulate viewers. Glide’s automatic compatibility engine formats your media for you. There is no need to hire graphic artists and audio and video engineers to resize your photos and transcode your audio and video files. Simply upload your media to Glide and add to your presentation. Glide does the heavy lifting.
Glide Presenter is fully integrated with Glide Write as well as the entire Glide application suite including Calendar, Photos, Music, Videos, Documents, Contacts, Bookmarks, Personal Websites, Blogs, Email, Conference, Glide Mobile, Glide Sync and more.
Google Docs
)(Free Googl account required) Google's new presentation software, touted as a Web-based alternative to Microsoft's PowerPoint, is an easy-to-use product with a nifty interface and impressive collaboration features, but its omission of several important functions makes it a runner-up to Transmedia's Web-based application, Glide Presenter 2.0, see above.
Residing under the Google Docs umbrella of online office applications, Google's presentation program works on Internet Explorer and Firefox. It lacks support for Safari and Opera, however, and it includes only the most basic tools for creating and sharing slide shows.
Google's presentation app comes with six templates and one-click formatting options for tinkering with text and images within slides. It is nicely laid out, with the individual slides down the left pane and a central window showing the contents of the slide you're working on. Along the top are clearly marked icons for adding/removing slides and inserting images and text.
Once you have created a presentation, the software's real-time collaboration—its killer feature—kicks in. The app is connected to Google Calendar, to Gmail, and to Google Talk; clicking the 'Share' button brings up a screen that allows you to invite viewers or collaborators. Clicking the 'Start presentation' button opens your slide show along with a chat window that integrates with Google Talk.
Power users will be disappointed in several respects, however. Though Google's app will import a PowerPoint file from your desktop, it won't export it in PowerPoint's .ppt or OpenOffice's .odp (open document) format. It offers no transitions, sounds, or effects such as bouncing text and fading animations. You can't draw shapes, make arrows, or design your own templates. Although you can upload images from your PC, even that is a chore because you must do so one at a time.
