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How to Make Christmas Flash E-Card

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:35:15 +0000

Christmas eCards carry the whole meaning of Christmas. Personalized Christmas greeting eCards with your own photos and voice work as a warm tool to communicate, connect and express your emotions, your feelings, and your care for friends and love ones in this Christmas. This guidance will show you how to create personalized Christmas eCards with PowerPoint and PPT to Flash converter.

PowerPoint lets you easily personalize the colors and design, insert your own videos and photos, and attach the right warm greeting messages. The following is a sample of greeting card with photos and videos created by PowerPoint and PPT to Flash converter.

Follow this easy 3 steps you can create your own Personalized Christmas Flash greeting eCard in minutes!

Step 1 – Prepare multimedia resources for your greeting eCard

Photo: Find it on your photo album or download some Christmas pictures from website.
Free Christmas pictures download: http://www.hickerphoto.com/christmas-pictures-photos.htm
Music: Download Christmas songs or record your own greeting voice.
Free Christmas songs download: http://www.christmasgifts.com/music.html
Steps to record your own greetings with PowerPoint:
For PowerPoint 2003, please go to: Slide Show -> Record Narration
For PowerPoint 2007, please go to: Insert -> Sound -> Record Sound
Video: You can get some Christmas videos from You Tube and other online videos websites.
Tip: free way to download You Tube videoJust input the url of the video you want at http://downloadyoutubevideos.com/ and click Download to get the video.

Step 2 – Integrate multimedia resources into PowerPoint presentation

Design the slide layoutYou can start to create the greeting card by choosing the PowerPoint templates or launch PowerPoint to create a new design by yourself. Also, you can set animated effects to your presentation through Custom Animation option.To download free PowerPoint templates for Christmas, please go to:http://www.presentationmagazine.com/free_powerpoint_template.htm
Insert multimedia resources to PowerPoint
Insert photos: Insert -> Picture
Insert music: http://www.acoolsoft.com/support/powerpointzone/How-to-add-music-to-PowerPoint.html
Insert YouTube video: http://www.acoolsoft.com/knowledges/embed-youtube-powerpoint.html
Insert Flash: http://www.acoolsoft.com/support/powerpointzone/Insert-SWF-File-in-PowerPoint.html

Step 3 – Convert your PowerPoint presentation to Flash eCard

Now, go to the last step – converting PowerPoint to Flash eCard. Acoolsoft PPT to Flash converter is a good tool to convert your animated PowerPoint presentation to interactive Flash eCard in one click by simply clicking the Publish button.

You can send this Flash greeting eCard by E-mail, or upload to your blog and website for web sharing. Now, everything is ok. It is very easy to make such personalized greeting eCards with PowerPoint and Acoolsoft PPT to Flash, isn’t it? Get your feet wet. Send your warmest regards to your friends and love ones with your exquisite Christmas eCard .

Creative DIY Christmas Gift Ideas and Tips to Show Your Sincere Wishes

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:14:24 +0000

It is the gift time! Oh yes, Christmas is coming. Dear friends, have you begun to prepare the Christmas gifts? Many of you must have formulated the gift plans. Some may decide to buy delicate presents, which can save time, while another group of people prefer to make DIY Christmas gifts. Indeed, a DIY Christmas gift seems to be a greater surprise.

DIY Christmas gifts show our warm care as well as sincere wishes to the receivers, and impress them more. However, thinking of great Christmas gift ideas for so many receivers is a little complex indeed.

The following are some Christmas gift ideas you can take as reference:

For your dear mom, aunt, sister, grandma, etc, the gift can be something like dress ornament, cute handbag; grandpa, dad, uncle, etc probably like things such as beautiful photo frame, and hand-stove; as for bosom friends, you can send some little memorable gifts to show your care. It is more meaningful; the gifts that can show your warm care are good choice for lovers; for workmates, classmates , etc , some marvelous Christmas cards are good choice to express your wishes; …. There are so many choices, and you can also get inspiration from the following resources: 34 Great Gifts You Can Make Yourself, and ideas for DIY Christmas gift

Is it still a headache to think out several ideas? To save you out of this hard work, here comes a Christmas gift idea that is wonderful for different receivers – make a DIY DVD photo album or Christmas DVD card with PowerPoint. You can design your own card and photo album showing the happy moment with family, friends, etc. Also DVD can be played by people with different ages and can be stored for a long time. Check the detail ways to make a DVD slideshow with easy-to-use MS PowerPoint and PowerPoint to DVD converter.

Apart from the wonderful Christmas ideas, there are also more things to consider. Here will introduce some tips to make a DIY Christmas gift.

1. List the receiver and the proper gift. Among your family members and acquaintances, you need to decide whom you will send a DIY gift. It is better to devote the time and attention to the key gifts. Also a plan should be made to make the ideal gifts clear for the receiver.

2. Make the budget clear. The whole plan to make a DIY Christmas gift should come wisely. With a comparatively clear budget, you will feel more relaxed and everything will follow your plan. It is not sensible to make yourself anxious because of the gifts’ cost.

3. Keep it a secret. When the preparation is done, keep it a secret to the receiver. People always like some happy surprises. Therefore, when you show them the gifts, you will gain a wonderful reward – the receivers’ touching smile.

4. Think of the creative way to send the Christmas gift out. Innovative gift interests the receiver, while the novel ways to send the gift out make the gift delivery this year perfect. Surprise plus innovation is equal to the satisfactoriness and excitement of the receivers.

Make a DIY Christmas gift, and you will be the great Santa Claus saying “Merry Christmas, dear family and friends!”

Acoolsoft Announces up to 30% off Black Friday Sales on PowerPoint Converters

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:02:03 +0000

Shenzhen, China – November 20, 2009 – Acoolsoft (www.acoolsoft.com), the professional provider of DVD, video and Flash movie maker based on Microsoft PowerPoint, holds Black Friday sales in which all the products are sold at the price of up to 30% off. This deal doesn’t just apply for Black Friday.(isn’t just available in Black Friday) It will last from November 20th. to December 5th. to offer customers more benefits.

In the Black Friday sales, Acoolsoft slashes the price of its three main products – PPT to DVD burner, PPT to Video Converter, and PPT to Flash. Specifically, any purchaser of Acoolsoft software can get 20% discount for single product, and 30% discount for the bundle. The up to 30% discount comes as its holiday gift for dear customers.

PPT to DVD burner – With Acoolsoft PPT2DVD Pro, people can share photos, presentations and coursewares on TV with a DVD player by burning PowerPoint to DVD. It is more convenient for those who may not have a computer, or don’t know how to use it.

PPT to Video converter – By using Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, people can convert PowerPoint to video (AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, MOV, FLV and 3GP) to enjoy wonderful slideshow and presentation on Webs and mobile devices like iPod, iPhone, etc.

PPT to Flash – Acoolsoft PPT2Flash enables people to share PowerPoint on Webs or via E-mail. By converting PowerPoint to Flash, you can get the Flash presentation of small size, and all the properties and animaiton in PowerPoint will be retained.

For further information about Acoolsoft’s Black Friday sale, please visit: http://www.acoolsoft.com/purchase/purchase.html

About Acoolsoft Software Co., Ltd.

Founded in 2007, Acoolsoft aims to develop practical PowerPoint converters to help users present PowerPoint slideshows in more ways. Through hard work of the whole staff, Acoolsoft has already received recognitions and praise from all around the world. To give the best product quality and the best customer and support service to users is always the goal of this group. Learn more about Acoolsoft, please visit: www.acoolsoft.com

Contact: sales@acoolsoft.com

Free Thanksgiving Clipart: Brighten up Your Thanksgiving Experience

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:42:59 +0000

Thanksgiving is around the corner. Make a more memorable Thanksgiving holiday with Thanksgiving clipart! There are many Thanksgiving related clipart online for you. Finding Thanksgiving clipart is not that difficult. Most good search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing will return good results for terms such as ” Thanksgiving clipar”‘ or ” Thanksgiving clip art”.

Here are some useful Thanksgiving clipart resources for you.
Turkey clipart
Fall clipart
Pilgrim clipart
thanksgiving coloring pages
Give thanks clip art
Happy Thanksgiving clipart

Happy Thanksgiving!

Make a Thanksgiving DVD Advertisement from PowerPoint to Enhance Your Sales

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:51:33 +0000

Thanksgiving Day is just around the corner! Dear sellers, have you already made good preparation to stand out in the fierce Thanksgiving sales competition? There’s no doubt that advertisement is the most popular and efficient way to achieve this. As a seller, especially when you are in small and medium-sized companies, you must want to get the biggest profits through smallest costs. Compared with the advertisements made through the advertising agencies,Thanksgiving DVD advertisement created from PowerPoint seems more economic, and flexible. Here you will be introduced to this efficient and more cost-effective way to advertise – make a Thanksgiving DVD advertisement from PowerPoint.

The two major benefits of DVD advertisement from PowerPoint:

1. Economic. This kind of advertisement is quite easy to make from PowerPoint with the help of some PowerPoint to DVD software. It can be easily played through DVD players or on digital signage. The DVD advertisement helps you save big budget compared with asking video production agencies to do this.

2. Flexible. PowerPoint is easy to handle. You can design the ads freely and change the content conveniently when necessary. Time and efforts can be saved from the extra communication.

The benefits have been shown above, then how to make a DVD advertisement with PowerPoint?

Tools you need: PowerPoint, PowerPoint to DVD software

Please follow the steps:

1. Pick up a proper Thanksgiving PowerPoint template.

The suitable template is a key point to attract consumers’ attention. It can highlight the main content in your ads. You can find the PowerPoint templates on the following Websites: Acoolsoft, Poweredtemplates, and Brainybetty , etc.

2. Add multiple elements like picture, video, audio, animation, etc to your DVD advertisement

The settings in the Insert tab of PowerPoint will help you insert elements freely. Here is the detailed tutorial for you to make a thanksgiving advertisement slideshow.

More thanksgiving objects to decorate your advertisement

Thanksgiving Wallpaper

Thanksgiving Pictures

Thanksgiving Song

3. Burn the Thanksgiving PowerPoint presentation to DVD

Somebody may think it is difficult to burn PowerPoint presentation to DVD. Actually, it is quite easy to do with the PowerPoint to DVD software. Just after a few mouse clicks, the Thanksgiving PowerPoint slideshow can be burned to DVD with nearly all the elements well retained.

To make your DVD advertising from PowerPoint more professional, here are some tips for you:

Be clear about the purpose of your advertisement. If you start designing without knowing your purpose, you’ll end up with a confusing message. For example, before black Friday, discount information may be your main subject, so your ads should focus on this. And you need to know which goods among the various kinds of commodities should take more time to display.
Do not forget that simplicity is the key to creating good advertising. After exactly deciding on what you want to show, be sure you will make full use of the slides. Don’t fill the slides with crowded letters. Keep this text big enough so that people can see it easily from a few meters away.
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“A picture is worth a thousand words”. Make sure you will find photographs or pictures that best convey the ideas behind your subject. Pictures always attract people’s eyes. Besides, you can also add some audio to your ads. This must be more effective, because customers can get the information from vision and hearing.

The period before Thanksgiving Day is the golden time for you, dear sellers, to compete with other business men for the profits. Good goods quality and satisfying customer service are effective aspects in the competition, while the powerful publicity is also the key to win. It must bring you more chances to broadcast a Thanksgiving DVD advertisement made with PowerPoint. Take actions, and you will be the winner!

Free Thanksgiving ECards Websites: Send Thanksgiving ECards for Free

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:51:21 +0000

Thanksgiving is nearing. Want to send out a nice eCard that will make your friends and family members smile? Would you also like to give a charity some exposure at the same time? Choose from these free online Thanksgiving greeting eCards from these websites I collect for you.

123 Greetings.com – The website has lot of fun musical greeting cards that you can send to family and friends for free.

Americangreetings – The website has eCards for every occasion and every holiday where you can choose free ecards to send to your friends and family.

Holidaynotes – It has over 300 ecards you can choose from. You can personalize the eCard (such as poem, music and greetings), you can even choose what date you want your card sent!

Free E-Cards Online – It covers a wide range of Thanksgiving themes, you can send the already-made eCard directly. Besides, it allows users to build their cards and make it as personal as you want.

eCardica’s – The collection of Thanksgiving cards may not be the biggest you can find on the net, but their cards are beautiful, full of atmosphere and generally very, very nice.

Some other free Thanksgiving eCards websites:

http://www.herenthere.com/greetings/thanksgiving.shtml

http://www.care2.com/send/catthanks1.html

http://www.bluemountain.com/category.pd?path=35270

http://ecards.funutilities.com/ecards/010703/Thanksgiving.html

Of course, you can go to Google or Yahoo and search “Free Thanksgiving eCard” to get more Thanksgiving eCard for you. Don’t hesitate, say hello to your friends and family members with these free Thanksgiving eCards at this Thanksgiving Day!

Free Thanksgiving Wallpapers: Add Thanksgiving Spirit to Your Computer Screen

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:59:53 +0000

Thanksgiving Day is drawing near. Why not get into the spirit of things early by putting Thanksgiving wallpapers on your computer? Thanksgiving wallpapers are a great treat for the eyes during the Thanksgiving holiday. They add color and festive spirit to your computer screen. Whenever you look at your desktop, you get to see warmly wallpaper with lovely colors, designs and text, that feeling cannot be easily described.

Free Thanksgiving wallpaper -Autumn Idyllic

Free Thanksgiving wallpaper -Give Thanks

Free Thanksgiving wallpaper -Turkey Pilgrimettes

Free Thanksgiving wallpaper – Cornucopia

Free Thanksgiving wallpaper – Turkey Pilgrimettes

Free Thanksgiving wallpaper – Delicious Autumn

Here’s a list of free thanksgiving wallpapers Web sites for you. Just get it and decorate your computer!

http://www.desktopia.com/wallpapers/Holidays_-_Events/Thanksgiving_Day

http://www.kate.net/holidays/thanksgiving/wallpapers.php

http://www.flash-screen.com/free-wallpaper/thanksgiving-wallpaper.html

http://www.theholidayspot.com/thanksgiving/wallpapers/

http://www.screene.com/free-wallpapers/holidays-wallpapers/thanksgiving/

Download these thanksgiving wallpapers, you also can make a Thanksgiving dvd photo slideshow with these wallpapers with PowerPoint to DVD.

Create Church Video for Thanksgiving Day with PowerPoint

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:20:43 +0000

Thanksgiving Day is coming soon on Nov, 26th. It is a day for expressing thanks to the good in life, especially to family and friends. For many Christians, they may go to the church and express thanks to the God. Prayer of Thanksgiving is very important in any and every Christian’s relationship with God.

If you are a pastor or a person authorized to conduct religious worship in church, and happened to be the person who is appointed for making the arrangement of the Thanksgiving prayer, an announcement DVD/video or one to accompany the prayer will help you solve lots of trouble. Here are some main benefits of exhibiting such DVD/videos:

Create an atmosphere for Thanksgiving with DVD/videos played continuously on TV or through a projector
Tell people clearly about the arrangement of activities on Thanksgiving
Impress the viewers with the vivid animated DVD/video
Any other warnings can be displayed out

You might think that making such a streaming church DVD/video is going to be very expensive by asking others to do it, or it may require complex computer skills and lots of time. But believe it or not, with the right way and tool, such a Thanksgiving DVD/video can be created in mainly two steps. Here you can see it.

What you will need: PowerPoint and a PowerPoint to DVD or video burning tool

Step1: Choose a proper PowerPoint template or background

The PowerPoint background can be set either for Thanksgiving or Christian. Here you can find some free Christian PowerPoint backgrounds. Also, here are some free Thanksgiving PowerPoint templates.

Step2: Create contents for the DVD/video in PowerPoint
Thanksgiving activity arrangement details, events, Thanksgiving prayer, poem and etc can all be displayed in PowerPoint. To make the video more dynamic, you can add various animations. Besides, tables, pictures, clipart, and SmartArt are all available. The picture showed above is just a sample.

Step3: Insert music files to the Thanksgiving presentation

Suitable background music can make the atmosphere more comfortable. Here are some Thanksgiving songs. For step-by-step guide about how to do it, you can see this article: How to Add Music to Thanksgiving PowerPoint.

Step4: Set the presentation to run automatically

As the duration of each slide may different, so it’s necessary to set up the time that each slide appears. To do this, you can reference this article: How to Advance Slides Automatically in PowerPoint.

Step5: Convert the PowerPoint you made to DVD or video

This is the last step of creating your Thanksgiving video for church use. To finish it, all you need is just a conversion tool that can help you convert your PowerPoint to DVD or video. You can try this PowerPoint to DVD converter from Acoolsoft. After the conversion, you can directly play the output DVD or video at the waiting room or foyer for people to view.

Being thankful is probably what Thanksgiving is all about. So, treasure what we have now, and enjoy the Thanksgiving Day.

How to Share your PowerPoint Presentations in Multiple Ways

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:20:48 +0000

Many of us make PowerPoint presentations, no matter it is for family use, business use or education use. But not lots of us know that there are multiple ways to share PowerPoint presentations. The most common way to send presentations to others may through email or put it on a server somewhere for access. You may also package your presentation to CD for the members using PowerPoint viewer only.
But what if you want to

Run a looping presentation on a kiosk or at a tradeshow where PC is not available
Send the presentation to people who may not have PCs
Burn the presentation onto a DVD disc for distribution
Et cetera…?

Then it becomes a harder work. So how can you exactly share your information in the PowerPoint presentation? Here are some solutions for you.
1. Turn the presentation into a video to view on portable devices or website
Video is a media which could be broadcasted through many players. It can display your presentations in a more vivid way. With PowerPoint in video format, it is easy for uploading to your own blog and websites. Even there is no PowerPoint installed computers, you can also view your presentations through iPhone, iPod and all kinds of media player.

If take full advantages of PowerPoint product advertisement can also made with it. Then with the PowerPoint product advertisement in video format, you can upload it to websites for more people to get familiar with your products.

As to the tools that can help convert a PowerPoint presentation to video, there are many programs out there. We recommend this one: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter. For more ways about how to convert PowerPoint to video, you can click here.

2. Save and store PowerPoint presentation in CDs for distribution or broadcasting
If you have made precious photo albums with PowerPoint, saving them onto a CD would be meaningful. Family genealogy and other interesting events can all be widely shared with other family members who have no PCs and stored for long term preserve.
Useful courseware made with PowerPoint can also be distributed to fellows and students after being burned to CD/DVD.

Besides, PowerPoint product advertisement if saved in CD, it is possible to be viewed on a kiosk or at a tradeshow when there is no PC.

For programs to burn PowerPoint to CD, there is always Camtasia that will turn a PPT into a video/audio presentation, then with another program to make the video/audio presentation into a DVD. But if just for the function of burning PowerPoint to DVD, there are some better choices such as these ones: http://ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html ; http://ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-overview.html.
If you want to learn more ways about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD, you can click here.

3. Convert PowerPoint presentations to web-accessible presentations
There are a lot of ways to do this. One of them is converting PowerPoint presentations to HTML version. Open your PowerPoint first, and then click Save As in the Office Button. In the drop-down menu of Other Formats, choose Webpage.

Another effective way to do this is to upload your PowerPoint to video sharing websites such as YouTube. For more notes about how to share PowerPoint on YouTube, you can click here.

The next time you want to share your PowerPoint with others, don’t bother too much then. Just take the above suggestions into consideration. And use PowerPoint to boom your sales if necessary.

5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint to Video

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:11:57 +0000

Benifits of PowerPoint
PowerPoint is a powerful presentation application which is very commonly used by lectures, businessmen, students, trainers, etc. It is easy to use and featured with a lot of functions to create interesting and dynamic slide presentations. This has made it widely accepted and utilized.

Benefits of Video
Video is powerful because it’s demonstrative, clearly depicting procedures, techniques or visual information such as charts and graphs. Most of all, video showcases charisma of live images and animations, allows for transparency and communication skills, which can lead to trust. It is also a good idea to make videos for special occasions as a way of watching them and reminiscing the good times.

Benefits of converting PowerPoint presentations to video:

Display your presentations in a more vivid way
With PowerPoint in video format, it is easy for uploading to blog and websites
Even there is no computer, you can also view your presentations
Videos can be uploaded to portable devices such as iPhone, iPod and Pocket PC

5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint Presentations to Video (free ways and cost-effective ways)
Method 1: Upload your presentations to http://www.slideshare.net which is one of the world’s largest communities for sharing presentations. It can generate video for your presentations.
After uploading your presentations onto it, you can directly download the generated video onto your own computer, or embed the video to your blog.

But there are limitations to the presentations uploaded to it. Max size of the presentation is limited to 100MB; animations, video clips and other complex elements couldn’t be added; PowerPoint 2007 is not supported. Sometimes, objects inserted into the presentation may be modified after the uploading.

Some other similar online PowerPoint sharing sites such as http://www.authorstream.com and http://www.slideboom.com/ also support generate video for the presentations uploaded. The advantage is that you don’t need to download any programs onto your computer and they are all free. If your presentation’s size is not too big, and there are only texts and pictures in your presentation, you can have a try at these sites.

Method 2: Use Camtasia which costs $299 to record your presentation and then generate a video
Step1: In the Task List, select Record PowerPoint.
Step2: Open a PowerPoint presentation to record.
Step3: Select the recording options from the PowerPoint Add-in Toolbar. Click the Record button.
Step4: The presentation opens in presentation mode. A Camtasia Studio dialog opens in the lower right corner of the screen. Click the Click to begin recording button.

Step5: Progress through the PowerPoint presentation slides. To stop the recording before the last slide, press . To stop the recording at the end of the presentation, click Stop recording.
Step6: Enter a file name and location and click Save. The presentation recording saves as a Camtasia Studio recording file.
Advantages with this method: The program can capture slide timing, animations, sound effects, webcam video and any applications displayed on screen during the presentation. You can also record your own narration while the screen-capture process is being carried out.
Disadvantages: This program eats huge system resources. If the configuration of your computer is not so good, animations may become laggy or even lost.

Method 3: Convert PowerPoint presentation to video with Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter
Step1: Download this PPT2Video Converter and install it on your computer.
Step2: Launch the program. Click Import button to choose the presentation you want to convert, choose an output format for the video you want to generate. And then click Start button to start the conversion process. (This program can convert presentations to video in MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.)

Step3: Upload the video to blogs or websites such as YouTube.

Method 4: Use Windows Movie Maker to create a video for your presentations
Windows Movie Maker comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. With this method, it may time consuming and animations in your presentation would be lost after the conversion.
Step1: Save your PowerPoint slide show as “PNG” images.

Step2: Import the images to your Windows Movie Maker.
Step3: Select all the imported images and then add them to Storyboard.

Step4: Add video effects to the slides (Optional)
Step5: Save the slide show as Movie File.

Method 5: Make a QuickTime movie on Mac
Export your presentation as a QuickTime movie “PowerPoint Movie”. Then you can save your presentations to MOV video file. Way to do this: click File -> Make Movie
But in this way, sounds and animations couldn’t be retained. If you are using keynote, just export your presentation to QuickTime file directly.

Take the advantages of PowerPoint and video. Convert your presentations to video. Share your presentation with more people and create a more convenient way to view your presentations.