Robin Good: If you are looking for a free and simple alternative to SlideShare you may want to give a look to this new free presentation sharing service which allows you to upload PowerPoint and PDF files without much hussle. Presentations can be viewed in full screen, shared on social media, tagged and categorized, and made available for download if so desired. The service looks clean, simple to use, and promising. (I needed one).
Examples of other uploaded presentations: http://slideonline.com/presentation/latest
N.B.: There is hardly any information on the site, "About", and "Learn More" links are not working, so be prudent before uploading your whole library here. Try it out now: http://slideonline.com/ (via by Baiba Svenca) 
Robin Good: Presto is a system which allows you to author dynamic presentations for iPads. Presentations are created on the Mac with Presto Builder and then exported to your iPad for final delivery. Presto presentations are non-linear and you can swipe and connect to other slides in multiple ways. The final content created with Presto can also be shared with your Twitter and Facebook contacts. The iPad app is free to download. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/presto-player/id512561996?ls=1&mt=8 Presto Builder for the Mac is available inside the Mac App Store and costs: €4.99/$5.99 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/presto-builder/id512551858?ls=1&mt=12 More info: http://www.presto-app.com/ 
Robin Good: PDF Presenter is an open-source free cross-platform presentation software which allows you to edit and annotate existing content, import images and draw annotations . With PDF Presenter you can type text next or over existing content, create multiple tabs with different whiteboards, and save your final work as a PDF file. System requirements: Works on PC, Mac and Linux. Free to use. More info and download it here: http://pdfpresenter.sourceforge.net/ (Thanks to Baiba Svenca for uncovering it) 
Robin Good: Now that SlideShare has significanty restricted its free offerings, limiting the size of presentations that can be uploaded for free, many presenters like me have started looking again for valid alternatives. "Projeqt is simple, intuitive and highly social, playing nice with other platforms by allowing you to mesh together text, image, video and feeds within the same Projeqt." Key features include: -> Stacks - build deeper inside a presentation by creating stacks in place of individual slides -> Cross-platform - works on any modern browser, mobile device or tablet. -> Upload PPT, PDF or batches of image files -> Embed everywhere -> Link together and connect as many presentations as you like. -> Multiple display options Features: https://projeqt.com/#features Examples: https://projeqt.com/#examples More info: https://projeqt.com/ 
Robin Good: SlidePresenter is a web service which allows you to upload the recorded video of your speech and synch with your PowerPoint presentation before publishing it online. Key features include: - Sell presentations online - Private or public - Share on social networks - Analytics Free basic account available (max 15 min video-presentation/month) here: http://www.slidepresenter.com/registration/free Pricing: http://www.slidepresenter.com/account/choose-package 
Robin Good: Symbol is free web app which allows you to easily pic any type of symbol character available in its extended and well organized collection and cut it and paste it into any document, web app, or social media channel. Recommended. 9/10 Try it out now: http://www.piliapp.com/symbol/ Robin Good: Easel.ly is a new web app which allows you to create, edit and publish your own infographics. Easel.ly makes it easy to add visual, icons and graphic elements by providing a rich library of ready-made elements that can be dragged and dropped on your infographic. Infographics are created by selecting a ready-made template which can be edited and personalized in every possible aspect. You can also upload your own images and save the final work in your preferred format among JPG, PNG, PDF and SVG. Free to use. Try it out now: http://www.easel.ly/ 
Robin Good: If you are an iPhone user here is a uniquely useful article from the Wall Street Journal, providing lots of tips, resources and advice on how to snap up great pics with your iPhone camera. This mini-guide lists some very useful apps, tools and techniques that can be put immediately to good use. Very useful. Resourceful. 8/10 Full guide: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577305702578426084.html 
Robin Good: Slidevana has just released its full set of over 150 slide templates for PowerPoint (Mac and PC). The Slidevana templates collection (which was available until now only for Keynote for Mac) allows anyone who does not graphic design skills to assemble professional-looking presentations by editing directly the content of the sample templates provided in this collection. In addition, if you are not fully satisfied you can ask for a full refund, and, from my own experience, their customer support service is very good. Key features and tour: http://www.slidevana.com/tour FAQ: http://www.slidevana.com/support More info: http://www.slidevana.com/ 
Robin Good: Here is a good collection of 12 tools dedicated to data mapping and visualization. Many of these tools are free to use. Resourceful. 7/10 Full guide: http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2011/05/part-4-the-essential-collection-of-visualisation-resources/ Robin Good: Projectorfy is a new iPad app which allows you to engage participants at a live event by running Tweetwalls, polls and public announcements on the event official screens. Create live polls that attendees can vote for using their mobile device and see the results projected live during the event. Projectorfy can work with TV screens, projectors, or computer screen displays as long as they have they are compatible with one of these types of video signal: Composite Resolutions supported: 640 x 480 720 x 480 1024 x 768 1280 x 720 (720p) 1280 x 1080 (1080i) A WiFi connection is also needed. Frequently asked questions: http://www.projectorfy.com/faq.php 
Robin Good: OpenStreetMap is a user-created free editable world map that can be used like a wiki. The data is free to download and use under its open license. Try it out now: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ 
Robin Good: If you are looking for a map of any part of the world that you can freely adopt, customize and use for your online project, the maps.stamen.com is now available online. You can call up any location on the planet and select between three different map styles: a) Terrain (USA only) b) Watercolor b) Toner
"maps.stamen.com, the second installment of the City Tracking project funded by the Knight News Challenge, is live. These unique cartographic styles and tiles, based on data from Open Street Map, are available for the entire world, downloadable for use under a under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, and free. Also, check out how the watercolor maps have been created." (Source: http://tulpinspiration.tumblr.com/post/20002323504/maps-stamen-com-is-live)
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Robin Good: Vengage is a new web app which allows anyone to created, edit and personalize professional-looking infographics by utilizing ready-made elements and an easy-to-use interface. From the Carlispina blog: "The newest tool for creating interactive infographics online is Venngage from the Vizualize.Me team. Building on the concepts that are at work in the Vizualize.Me infographic resume tool, Venngage allows users to create infographics on any topic with great simplicity. Despite this simplicity, Venngage is also extremely versatile, offering 14 different infographic templates, each of which is highly customizable, including the ability to resize the overall infographic to meet your specific needs. ... a wide range of data types since it offers more than a dozen different types of charts, a host of symbols and shapes and the ability to add your own images. Unlike many other infographic tools, Venngage also includes the ability to link to other web content directly in the infographic’s text." Venngage offers the option to export a .png file, to share your final work on social media, to keep private, or to embed it on any website or blog. "Unlike image-based infographics, Venngage's infographics are pure HTML elements and 100% search engine optimized." (Source: Carlispina Blog) Find out more: http://venngage.com/ 
From the official site: "Leave the VGA dongle at home. Project PDFs and photos directly over WiFi. Air Projector projects PDF documents and photos wirelessly from your iPhone or iPod Touch to a browser connected on the same local network. No additional client software is required. Just fire up Air Projector and type in the displayed URL in your web browser. Then flip through the pages or photos on your iPhone and the remote display updates automatically. -> Tap and hold to show a laser pointer on the remote screen. -> Send PDF documents from Mail, or a third party document manager such as Dropbox, to Air Projector to present them. -> Works great with exported PDFs from PowerPoint or Keynote (note: transitions and animations are not stored in PDFs). -> Share presentations with remote colleagues via online meeting or desktop sharing software (such as iChat). Note: Air Projector requires iOS4.0 and above." You can even use Air Projector peer-to-peer with a computer via an ad-hoc network when a WiFi hotspot is unavailable. Download on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/pk/app/id388376531 ($0.99) Free version also available (to test and verify if you like what this app does): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/air-projector-free/id411380678 Find out more: http://www.qrayon.com/home/airprojector/ (Thanks to Ana Cristina Pratas for discovering this one) 
Robin Good: Tagul is a web service that allows you to create custom tag clouds while being to control many aspects of your creation. Key features include:
Gallery: http://tagul.com/gallery FAQ: http://tagul.com/faq Try it out: http://tagul.com/ (Thanks to Liz Wilson for uncovering it) 
Robin Good: StatSilk offers a set of free downloadable software tools to create professional-looking stat and trend charts. StatPlanet can be used to create anything from basic interactive maps to advanced infographics. StatTrends is tailored to create interactive graphs and charts. Key features include: -> Multiple graphing and charting types -> Select countries by clicking on them in the world map or country selection window. Statistics and details for the country selected are displayed inside popups and visualization components. -> Animate changes over time -> Zoom into map regions -> Hide or reveal details - Change the level of detail by hiding or revealing interface components, country names or statistics. -> Customize the colors and value ranges of maps and graphs. -> Export maps for use in other applications or publications. Examples: http://www.statsilk.com/examples Try free web-demo here: http://www.statsilk.com/software/stattrends Features: http://www.statsilk.com/features and here: http://www.statsilk.com/features#components Downloads: http://www.statsilk.com/downloads (Win only) Find out more: http://www.statsilk.com/ 
Robin Good: SoftMaker Presentations is the presentation graphics program available inside SoftMaker Office 2012 – a Windows-and-Linux-only suite of applications that is fully compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint (and Office). SoftMaker Presentations replicates all of the classic Powerpoint functionalities while adding powerful efects, animations and transitions. SoftMaker Presentations lets you create any kind of presentation, be it a slideshow, a video or a collection of HTML pages, and to pass it around as a PowerPoint file. Key features include: -> Opens and saves PPT and PPTX files of Microsoft PowerPoint 97 to 2010 faithfully, including those with password protection -> Font embedding ensures that presentations retain their fonts even when viewed on other computers -> PDF file output of slides, outlines, handouts, and notes -> Design templates give you impressive results fast. -> Animations and slide transitions - > Hundreds of object and text animations available -> Ready-made animation schemes that animate entire presentations at once -> Insert movie and sound files -> Outliner -> Interactive presentation of slide shows with virtual pen and highlighter -> Fully Unicode-enabled, including Arabic -> Free-of-charge technical support 30-day free trial version: http://www.softmaker.net/down/ofw2012eval.exe Cost: €69.95 There is also a Linux version. 
Robin Good: Present.Me is a web app which allows you to easily combine your presentation with your own talking head video, in perfect sync. First you upload your image slides or presentation file (PowerPoint, PDF, Excel, Word, OpenOffice or Google Docs) and then you can record your video from your webcam while playing back the slides at your own preferred pace. You can also pause and restart any time. Present.me now features a "trim" function allowing you to cut out mistakes and errors you have made and allows to create also presentations with your audio only (no video). The final presentation can be shared online on all major social networks or embedded in any site or blog. There is both a free plan, allowing for up to 3 presentations of 15 mins, as well as paid plans costing $9 (30 presentations of 60 mins and no ads) and $39/month (unlimited). Review by TheNextWeb: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/05/05/present-me-is-slideshare-meets-youtube-for-creating-on-demand-online-presentations/ Demo: http://present.me/tour Pricing: http://present.me/plans More info: http://present.me/ First covered here: http://presentationtools.masternewmedia.org/p/651958223/record-your-own-video-in-sync-with-your-presentation-present-me on Nov.11 - 2011 (Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for bringing it again to my attention) 
Robin Good: Maxgif is a simple web app that takes the URL of any animated GIF file and converts it into a self-standing web page, where your selected GIF is displayed over as a full-screen image. The service is free to use. My test example: http://maxgif.com/18i Try it out now: http://maxgif.com/ 
Robin Good: If you are looking for professionally-looking templates for POwerPoint, I suggest you to give a look to the dedicated search engine section on Slideworld: http://www.slideworld.com/ppt_templates/powerpoint-templates.aspx Here you can find a wide variety of professionally designed PowerPoint templates / slides that can be purchased online and then edited and personalized on your computer. More info: http://www.slideworld.com/ (Thanks to Baiba Svenca for having uncovered this) 
Robin Good: After Google has closed its excellent image editing tool Picnik, a new service has appeared that has all of the characteristics to replace effectively the now defunt Google service. PicMonkey is a feature-rich, free online photo editor that works right in your browser; no downloads are necessary. Key features include tools to:
Unique additional features include:
The interface is extremely elegant, simple to use and effective. Free to use. Try it now here: http://www.picmonkey.com/
Robin Good: Vix.tv is a service that works in tandem with Microsoft Kinect and your presentation to make it possible for you to appear in front of the content you are presenting. The Kinect webcam captures your image as you present and overlays it on the presentation content you are delivering to your online audience. Works with any existing content: PowerPoint, desktop software, web pages, Prezi... anything. Key features:
A free basic account includes 50 hours of private hosting per month, video overlay, and quality set at 360p. Paid accounts offer more hours and higher quality. See an example: https://vix.tv/view/h6 See how it works: http://bit.ly/HFdoPA Pricing: https://vix.tv/pricing N.B.: Vix.tv works only on Windows 7 and Windows Vista PCs. More info: https://vix.tv Robin Good: Smart Dot is an "appcessory" for your iPhone which plugs in your headphone jack. Smart Dot works as a laser pointer, remote mouse and trackpad controller making it an excellent tool for presenters. "By combining a laser pointer and Smart Phone, ‘Smart Dot’ is an exciting new product that allows the use of both a physical and virtual laser pointer simultaneously." In fact, by downloading the free ‘Smart Dot App’ for iOS and Android OS, the actual laser pointer and a virtual mouse pointer on the screen can be shown at the same time. When not attached to your iPhone the Smart Dot laser pointer can be inserted into the supplied stylus for safe keeping between presentations, and it can provide a useful tool for drawing or writing on your iOS devices. For more info: http://tangram.kr/smartdot_eng/ 
Robin Good: Google Search Stories Video Creator is a free web service which allows you to specify up to seven queries that utilize one among Google search engines, and which then creates a video clip of those searches. Each one of the searches can be run against a specific Google search engine between Google News, Google Web Search, Google Blog Search, Google Maps, News, Products and Books. Once the video is ready and you are fine with it you can upload directly to your YouTube channel. Free to use. Examples: https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/ Try it out now: https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/creator/
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