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Robin Good: Here is a handy short guide to nine free infographic creation tools that can be utilized to create enticing visuals, word charts and data-based infographics without having special technical skills.
Useful. 8/10
Check them all out: http://www.infographicsarchive.com/create-infographics-and-data-visualization/
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Cubize is a web app which allows you to upload standard 3D CAD files and have them rendered as 3D interactive, manipulable objects that can be embedded on any web site. Supported 3D file formats include:
With Cubize it is also possible to choose how the 3D objects are rendered (materials and textures, shininess, reflectivity, bump maps and more) and displayed in terms of size and aspect ratio, whether they are floating or on the ground, its background and more. 3D objects rendered with Cubize can be annotated, commented, tagged and easily shared on all social media channels. To run Cubize your browser must support WebGL. Check here for compatibility. Free plan available. Pricing: http://www.cubize.com/plans/ Features: http://www.cubize.com/features/ Find out more: http://www.cubize.com/ Check more video demos: http://www.youtube.com/user/Cubize3D?feature=watch Delete the scoop?
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Bunkr is a new web app which allows you to easily collect and organize all of your existing content and images and to build up visual presentations by easily dragging and dropping your selected items into a dedicated presentation area. Bunkr slides can be easily edited, with text, images or video clips. Slides can be easily deleted, moved or rearranged intuitively. An integrated library + search facility makes it easy to organize in a professional way all of your imported content so that you can use it for more than just one time. The final presentation can be saved, previewed and exported to HTML5 iframe embed code, PDF or PPTX formats for final publication and distribution. My initial impressions are quite positive as the tool feels fast, and quite intuitive (after you have seen the tutorial clips). From there everything works as expected and once you have imported your selected content, you can build a presentation in a matter of minutes. Some features that would make Bunkr an immediate winner with me would be: a) Ability to search for resources (content+images+video) out on the web b) Option to import an image in a slide and have it automatically fill the whole slide c) Better text control handling (small controls, low usability) to make it easy to edit text easily and format it faster d) Some great display fonts Free to use. Try it out now: http://bunkr.me Check out these mini-tutorial clips: Definitely worth trying out. Delete the scoop?
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Download thousands of FREE vectors, stock photos, HD photos and PSD
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Freepik is a search engine dedicated to find, index and make available good quality images, photos, vector illustrations and clipart and PSD files. Having given a few tries to Freepik, I can confirm that there are plenty of good, free images that this search engine will find for you in a matter of instants. Here is for example the results that you get if you look for some cool, professional ribbons: http://www.freepik.com/index.php?goto=2&searchform=1&k=ribbon Free to use. Try it out now: http://www.freepik.com/ Latest arrivals: http://www.freepik.com/new Popular files: http://www.freepik.com/popular-vectors 
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May 14, 6:16 PM
serioooo Robin, ricondivido mtr davvero utilissimo! Grandeee, grazie! :D
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Fotor is a free cross-platform image editing tool and web app which makes it easy for everyone to crop, resize, filter or optimize any image without needing advanced skills or an expensive piece of software. Key features include an easy-to-use gallery of over 60 image filter effects, ability to control contrast, brightness, manually controllable tilt-shift effect, borders, backgrounds, clipart, instagram-like presets, and full file export support for JPG, PNG, BMP and TIF formats. The interface is excellent, intuitive, easy to understand and use even after a few seconds of use, and the app, both on the web as well as in its dedicated OS versions is very responsive to every action and commnd applied. The collage making facility is excellent and provides a good selection of ready-made collage layouts which can be further adjusted and personalized. Fotor is available both as a web-based app, immediately accessible here: http://www.fotor.com/ as well as a free download app for Windows 8, Mac OS X, iOS and Android. Free to use. Try it out now: http://www.fotor.com/ Downloads: 
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April 29, 12:28 PM
Many of us are using our Smartphone more and more for photography, it is nice to find a good free app to help with editing. Delete the scoop?
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SlideShark is the one and only app used to reliably view and share PowerPoint on the iPad or iPhone. Get it for free now.
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Slideshark is a free mobile app which allows you to show and broadcast PowerPoint presentations to anyone across the desk or around the world while providing you with tens of useful features. PPT presentations maintain all of their original look, fonts, graphics, animations and links. Slideshark is a great tool for any professional presenter, who travels, moves from conference to conference but needs to have always access to all of its presentations in a reliable fashion. Additionally Slideshark makes your iPhone/iPad/iPod act as super-efficient remote controller and preview unit for your slide, giving you the possibility to deliver and control your presentations directly from your iPhone or iPad. Key features included in version 3:
For businesses there is SlideShark Pro version which costs $95/year (less than $10/mo) and it provides 1GB of presentation space for one user. The Team Edition, which costs $149/year offers access to unlimited team members and 5GB of storage space. Pricing info: https://www.slideshark.com/Products/Compare-Products.aspx Find out more: https://www.slideshark.com/ Download free mobile app here: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/slideshark-view-share-presentations/id471369684?mt=8 (Thanks to Baiba Svenca for reporting on this new release) Delete the scoop?
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SlideShark is the one and only app used to reliably view and share PowerPoint on the iPad or iPhone. Get it for free now.
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Slideshark allows you to view and present PowerPoint slide shows using your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, without compromising animations and graphics. You can store presentations in an online SlideShark account and connect your tablet or smartphone to a projector to display presentations. You can also beam slide shows to mobile devices in the audience and track views. Key features include:
Cost: Free for 100MB of storage, then starting at $49 a year for 600MB of storage. Full pricing info: https://www.slideshark.com/Products/Compare-Products.aspx Getting started video: https://www.brainshark.com/brainsharkinc/SlideSharkforIndividuals?tb=0&dm=5&tx=Web_HELP_Support-Center FAQ: https://www.slideshark.com/Help/Support-Center.aspx More info & try-out: https://www.slideshark.com/ 
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April 28, 3:06 AM
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Use both cameras on your iPhone to create a single image. Get the app.
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Dblcam is a new iPhone app which allows you to capture images with both front and back cameras integrated in your iPhone. The unique double-images can be instantly posted to Instagram. Free to use. App store download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dblcam/id605269890?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 More: http://dblc.am/ (Image by @birthdaypartyisfun) Delete the scoop?
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Here is a good collection of 20+ tools that allow you, without needing to have any technical skills, to pull together specific information bits on a specific topic and to create great looking infographic-like visual information displays for free. Useful. Ful list: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/infographic-tools/ 
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May 13, 1:14 PM
Piktochart is easy to work with and creates a fair Infographic. I still prefer to hire an art director. It's worth the money to have an intelligent designer with you :-) 
Eddie Thornton's curator insight,
May 13, 3:29 PM
Don't forget to add your perspecitve, your insight as to why this infographic add up to more than just numbers and figures on a chart. 
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May 14, 4:09 PM
Another great link to help create infographics. I'd like to get more time to create these for class... Delete the scoop?
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Adobe Revel is a new app, working across Mac and iPhone and iPad which makes it extremely easy to import all of your photos, help you organize them into "libraries" and "albums", and to share them privately with your selected contacts. Adobe Revel also makes it easy to edit any image with a number of intuitive real-time controls and Instagram-like "effects". I must say, after having imported nearly 25,000 photos, that Adobe Revel is very simple, intuitive and straightforward to use. Learning time is zero and everything works like you expect it too. The free plan allows you to import unlimited pictures for the first 30 days, and then a maximum of 50 additional pics every month. The paid option, at $5.99/month, allows you to upload unlimited number of photos always. N.B.: For users with Android phones you can download Revel Importer. Revel Importer is not a full version of Revel but it does give you a way to import the photos on your Android phone into your Revel photo library. There is also a web version of Revel at www.adoberevel.com. The web version of Revel includes almost all the features of Revel EXCEPT the ability to edit your photos. Features: http://www.adoberevel.com/features FAQ: http://www.adoberevel.com/support Pricing: http://www.adoberevel.com/pricing Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-revel/id455068834?mt=12&ls=1 App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-revel/id455066445?mt=8&ls=1 Delete the scoop?
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Color Hunter is a free web app that allows you to instantly derive a color palette from any image or photograph you submit. To find existing color palettes on Color Hunter, enter a search term in the box at the top of the page. You can search by tag or hex color code or image URL. If you have an image, you can upload it and get a color palette based on the colors in the image.
Free to use.
Try it out now: http://www.colorhunter.com/ 
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February 20, 8:18 AM
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February 20, 10:02 AM
Try Color Hunter : http://goo.gl/gR5rO
ColorBlender (http://goo.gl/iVjWl) Colorcombos (http://goo.gl/ybbKV) Colourlovers (http://goo.gl/f73yv) Delete the scoop?
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Diigo WebSlides is one of many little-known features that make Diigo users so passionate about their preferred bookmarking and annotation tool. Available since 2007, WebSlides allows easy conversion of any RSS feed or set of bookmarks into a navigable webtour viewable online by everyone. It is also possible to create an embeddable widget containing a WebSlides tour, so that it can be integrated on any web site page. Examples: http://slides.diigo.com/list/maggie_diigo/elearning http://slides.diigo.com/list/techieme/tech_crunch40 Free to use. Try it out now: http://slides.diigo.com/ (Thanks to Baiba Svenca for uncovering this gem) Delete the scoop?
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Mapbox is a professional map creation and customization app that allows any web publisher to create, edit, personalize and serve professional-looking interactive maps to thousands of viewers. Maps can be personalized by using predefined design templates, by controlling color for each map individual element and positioning location placeholders providing specific information anywhere across the map. Maps can also be made interactive, as if they were mini-apps by utilizing layer switching, map easing, geolocation and other features. Other key features include:
Free to try. Try it out immediately here: https://tiles.mapbox.com/newmap More info: http://mapbox.com/tour/ Check this video: http://player.vimeo.com/video/41680624?api=1&player_id=player%27 Pricing: http://mapbox.com/plans/ Help: http://mapbox.com/help/ Try out - sign-up: http://mapbox.com/ 
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April 12, 4:57 AM
MapBox combines his own online hosting service with his desktop software TileMill to a very good opportunity for publishing maps! Delete the scoop?
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Online video slideshow maker. Converts photos into amazing video. Import pictures from Facebook, Flickr or computer, and adds music and text to it. Easy to use.
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PicoVico is a web app, very similar to Slide.ly, which allows you generate a music video made out of your favorite photos. PicoVico makes it easy to select your preferred photos (either from computer or from your social media profiles) and to arrange it in a sequence, that you can personalize with your music and titles. PicoVico also offers a set of pre-designed video "themes" from which you can select your favorite "style" and allows you to fully customize the pictures, order, titles and soundtrack that will be displayed in your clip. Final videos are published to YouTube or Facebook at 360p resolution. An upcoming paid version will allow for exporting and saving the video also at higher video quality levels including HD. Free to use. Features: http://www.picovico.com/en/features FAQ: http://www.picovico.com/en/faq Try it out now: http://www.picovico.com 
IMA-EDU.GR's curator insight,
January 31, 1:11 PM
Σε απευθείας σύνδεση maker slideshow βίντεο. Μετατρέπει τις φωτογραφίες σας σε βίντεο. Εισαγωγή εικόνων από το Facebook, το Flickr ή τον υπολογιστή, και προσθέτει μουσική και κείμενο σε αυτό. Εύκολο στη χρήση. 
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January 31, 4:53 PM
I am hoping to try this out this weekend. The big drawback is the inability to download the file. There will be a paid version coming soon. Delete the scoop?
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Thanks to Pinterest, Giuseppe Gagliano and my own work, here is a useful collection of over 50 presentation tools, resources and services that I have curated, reviewed or written about in the last year or so. The collection includes presentation tools, resources for finding music, clipart and images as well as services that allow you to add video, converto to other formats (PDF, video) and to deliver your presentations in all types of events and to all types of devices. P.S.: This Pinterest collection is the natural, evolutionary fruit of people "pinning" images and stories from my own newsradar dedicated to Presentation Tools available here: http://presentationtools.masternewmedia.org. Full collection: http://pinterest.com/source/presentationtools.masternewmedia.org/ 
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May 8, 4:06 PM
A really interesting set of tools in this collection. I would think there would be something useful to almost everyone. Delete the scoop?
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SlideCaptain is a new web-based web presentation app, which allows you to create full HTML5-CSS3 slideshows, with text and images, which can be exported as HTML or PDF files. SlideCaptain introduces the "flow" concept, allowing sequences of slides to have branches and alternative directions. Instead of being able to go only to the "next" slide, I can also set up a slide "up" and one "down", allowing myself for three different display options after anyone slide. Furthermore a very useful navigation icon, displayed at the bottom right of my slides reminds me at all times which navigation options I have at every slide. The app integrates with a number of online services like Flickr, Instagram and Google Drive to facilitate importing and integrating images into slideshows. You can even search directly for image files on the web and import them directly onto your slides. By default presentations are set to "private", but as soon as you want to, you can share them publicly for everyone to see. My comment: Powerful and promising presentation editor, altough not so intuitive as would be expected. For example, inserting new items in a slide is not as clear as it should be. Look forward to improvements in the editor UI and workflow. Free to use. Demo: http://slidecaptain.com/#demo Find out more: http://slidecaptain.com/ (Thanks to Baiba Svenca for uncovering and suggesting to me this new tool.)
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April 30, 12:44 PM
Interesting layout options that allow you to subvert the old "forward and back" movement for more interesting presentations of material that require insight to a deeper level. Delete the scoop?
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Introducing templates that don't suck! If you are not a designer and lack time, this is an easier alternative. Create your own awesome presentations with these
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Slides That Rock is a unique set of three PowerPoint- and Keynote-compatible presentation templates characterized by very original design styles, and maximum ease of use. You add your text and images and you are done. The three decks available are: Santana - http://slidesthatrock.myshopify.com/products/santana-ppt Gaga - http://slidesthatrock.myshopify.com/products/gaga-ppt Bieber - http://slidesthatrock.myshopify.com/products/bieber-ppt Full catalog and Keynote versions: http://slidesthatrock.myshopify.com/collections/all They all cost $9.99 each. The presentation above has been created with the Santana template deck. More info at: http://slidesthatrock.myshopify.com/ Delete the scoop?
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If you need to rapidly add some notes, text, highlights or arrows to a screenshot or a photo, there is no better and easier free tool that I know of than Evernote Skitch. The newly released version 2.5 introduces full PDF annotation capabilities, and a great set of superuseful "visual stamps", that further enhance Skitch fast and elegant markup capabilities. At its core Skitch is a super-handy image capture and editing utility that allows you to resize, crop, and add unique annotations and highlights to any image while allowing you to save and export in all major image file formats. Skitch fully integrates with Evernote allowing you to automatically save all of your annotated images into one or more dedicated "notebooks". Free to download and use. Video intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XE325A4RvQc iTunes info: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skitch/id425955336?mt=12 Official site: Try it out: http://evernote.com/skitch/ Downloads:
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From the same guys behind the excellent video curation tool DragonTape, here's a new interesting editing, curation and remixing video tool. SooMeta allows you to grab videos, pictures, text paragraphs from any web source and turn them into short movies. SooMeta amkes it very easy you to combine videos from YouTube, pictures from the web or from your desktop, text, and voice recordings to create a presentation. You can also pull content in from Pinterest and Twitter to use in your final product. To produce a video you need to do the following: a) enter a great title than press create. b)search with the integrated tool quality content to remix c) copy/paste your best Youtube, Vimeo or any image URLs and mix them into a new story. d) use the Soo Cut bookmarklet to collect content or images from selected websites e) trim the video, enlarge the image, crop the text f) save and publish, share on social, embed on sites Short review by Richard Byrne available here: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/03/soo-meta-nice-new-way-to-create.html Find out more: www.soometa.com/ Try & use: http://www.soometa.com/create 
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March 26, 4:06 AM
Una herramienta que permite crear historias muy visuales para difundir 
Ricard Garcia's curator insight,
April 24, 6:00 AM
Really catchy, rich and useful. Excellent tool to foster creativity and communication! Delete the scoop?
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Alex Rister: "Storytelling for Presentations" was a short lesson I developed for my online Professional Communication and Presentation course. How do you teach storytelling Via Baiba Svenca
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Good simple advice, on how to start integrating a storytelling "structure" into your typical presentation. It's possible and here's some of the ingredients you need. 
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May 8, 2:38 AM
Presentation need Nanotechnology /New IP of Nano/ . 
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Trasformar euna presentazione in una storia da raccontare: lo sforzo più complesso! Delete the scoop?
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Find and share stunning public domain images.
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If you are looking for an outstanding collection of public domain images that you can use immediately on your website or blog, Pixabay offers more than 65,000 free images, photos, vector graphics and clipart contributed by its community. Developed by Hans Braxmeier and Simon Steinberger this is a great image resource to bookmark right away. From the official site: "...a repository for outstanding public domain images. You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author." Free to use. Recommended. Forum: http://pixabay.com/en/forum/ Try it out now: http://pixabay.com/ 
Zakariyya Spain's comment,
March 12, 8:30 PM
Thanks Robin. Seems like something I have been looking for.
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March 28, 8:52 PM
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Office Timeline is a free timeline maker PowerPoint add-in that allows you to easily create and share beautiful simple timelines, gantt charts, and project schedules.
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Instant Timeline is a new web-based app which allows you to easily create professional-looking timelines and Gannt charts (that you can use and publish anywhere) in a matter of minutes, from any device or OS, and for free. The process is very simple. You first select the style/look of your template, and then you manually add tasks, dates and milestones that you want to be displayed in your timeline. As a last step you can further personalize the look and appearance of specific elements before seeing your timeline fully displayed on your monitor. At this point you can go back and edit the data, the look and feel, or download the newly created timeline as PowerPoint or as an image file ready to be used anywhere. Instant Timeline is a close relative to Office Timeline, a free timeline maker PowerPoint add-in that allows you to easily create and share beautiful timelines, gantt charts, and project schedules inside PowerPoint. A "Plus" version of Office Timeline (starts at $29.95) allows for even greater visual customization options, for direct copy-paste of data directly from Excel, and the leveraging of a large set of professionally-designed ready-made templates plus the ability to do all these things directly within PowerPoint. Free to use. Try it out now: http://timelinemaker.officetimeline.com/
Ness Crouch's curator insight,
March 4, 1:55 PM
Hmm will have to see if I can download this at school!! 
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March 6, 10:38 AM
This seems like a very cool tool for managing schedules and tasks! Delete the scoop?
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Photo Pin is a free tool that helps bloggers and designers find beautiful photos for blogs and websites using Creative Commons licensing. Download the photos and get attribution links already formatted for you.
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Pin Photo is a great free web service that facilitates your task of finding free, Creative Commons licensed images that you can utilize on your web site, ebook or blog. "Using the open API of Flickr, Photo Pin searches the whole Flickr image database, which carries almost 39 Million pictures, if you reduce it to CC-BY-SA. (Source review: Noupe.com) Free to use. Try it out now: http://photopin.com/ 
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May 8, 2:02 PM
I love this. It beats looking all over the place wasting precious time.
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If you are looking for a simple and easy way to create a poster-like visual with images and text, here are two apps (one for the web and one that you can use on your iPhone) that can serve you right. Posterini is a free web app which allows you to upload your own photo and then to select a poster template that you can customize with your own text and titles. Very simple and easy to use. More info and try it out immediately: http://posterini.com/ Phoster, an iOS app that costs $1.99 does pretty much the same thing but with a different array of templates and styles to work with. More info: http://phoster.bucketlabs.net/ 
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March 5, 3:36 AM
Herramienta para crear posters y portardas de revistas con los alumnos. Delete the scoop?
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Electric Slide is the easiest way to wirelessly present PowerPoint slides, Office documents, PDFs and videos with your iPhone or iPad. Via Baiba Svenca 
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March 1, 12:57 PM
I agree Jacq! For some, the pricing won't be an issue. For sole proprietors, it could be something to carefully consider.
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See the new features of PowerPoint 2013.
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If you want to know what characterizes the new PowerPoint 2013 from the version you have been using unitl now, here is all you need to know. Key new features you should be aware of:
For more info check: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/powerpoint-2013-preview http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/try-office-preview 
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February 3, 1:50 PM
se si ha un tablet windows sicuramente questa versione di office è l'ideale !
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I have yet to make my first infograph, but am eager to get going.
I'm so in love with tools that help visualize what you do. This is a great list. I can't wait to try the ones I'm not familiar with.
Liked the list. My personal favorite is Piktochart.