PowerPoint 2008, the presentation maker included in the bundle, can export creations as a series of pictures — but not video — to iPhoto ‘06 and later. Alternately, users can save the slides to the Mac’s Pictures folder.

“From there, sync pictures to your iPod or iPhone through iTunes as usual, then use the built-in photos or slide-show program on your iPod or iPhone to show your presentation,” said Blair Neumann, a program manager in Microsoft’s Mac development group, in a post to the team’s blog Tuesday. IPhones and iPods that boast video viewing — the iPod touch, the newest iPod nano and the iPod classic — can also connect to a larger screen television or a projector using Apple’s $49 component AV cable.

Apple Inc.’s own Keynote presentation maker, one of the three applications in the $99 iWorks ‘08 suite, can also export its slide shows to iTunes. From there, Keynote presentations can be synced to iPods or iPhones.

Microsoft will release Office 2008 for Mac on Jan. 15 at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco in several editions priced from $150 to $500

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Microsoft has managed to streamline the initial setup experience for the Zune significantly. The multi-layered packaging draws more than a few elements from the So far, the attention-getting Zune Pad controller has also proven to work well; in a sense, Microsoft has managed to borrow the best elements of the iPod’s click wheel without sacrificing the ability to tap or click (you can do both) to navigate items one-by-one. The interface still isn’t quite as elegant as for the iPod, and we can see some users getting tired of having to reach for either of the side buttons, but it comes as a revelation compared to the confusing interfaces of most Creative ZEN jukeboxes.

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Jane Palmer and Marianne “Fairbanks believe people have power. Power to effect change. Power to speak their minds. Power to use technology in concert with the environment.

Born out of discussions about power are their stylish Noon Solar men’s and women’s handbags, each outfitted with solar panels and equipment to keep an iPod or cell phone charged.

The women, who live in Humboldt Park, met as grad students in the Art Institute of Chicago’s fibers program. Outside of class, they participated together in protests against the Iraq war.”

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Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 14, 2007 — Photodex® Corporation today announced the release of ProShow® Gold 3.2, the latest version of its award-winning slide show software for photography enthusiasts.

ProShow Gold 3.2 enables users to share slide shows in virtually any format and on any device making it easy to connect with friends and family at home or on-the-go. Users can share slide shows on popular devices such as cell phones, media players and upload shows directly to YouTube®.

The fully-integrated system is launching with dozens of device sharing options including playback on the latest iPod®, Blackberry® and Zune™ devices. These options are in addition to the popular DVD, PC and Web format options already available in ProShow.

Consumers are surrounded by an immense amount of personal technology everyday

“Consumers are surrounded by an immense amount of personal technology everyday”, says Paul Schmidt, President of Photodex Corporation. “We have taken advantage of this technology in the latest version of ProShow by providing an easy way for consumers to get their slide shows, photos and videos onto the devices and gadgets they use everyday.”

With ProShow Gold 3.2 users combine their photos, videos and music to create personalized slide shows, then simply select from a list of support devices. ProShow generates a version of the slide show that is designed exactly for the type of device chosen; eliminating any complicated formatting and file conversions.

Devices Include:

• Media Players: iPod®, Zune™, Creative® Zen and more.
• Mobile Phones: Blackberry®, Apple iPhone™, Palm® Treo™ and more.
• Game Consoles: Xbox®, Nintendo® Wii™ and more.
• Set-Top-Boxes: Apple TV™, Tivo® and more.

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Is full wireless syncing support appropriate for a flash-based player? Microsoft’s $199 8GB Zune certainly ships with a raft of features, but unless you need a light player with wireless functions, you’ll probably be able to find better values elsewhere.
The 8GB Zune is a little thicker than one of the last-generation iPod Nanos. That puts it on the large side for flash-based MP3 players these days. Its audio quality sounded a little better to my ears than that of the latest iPod Nano, on a par with Creative’s Zen V. One tiny annoyance, though: The player’s 20-step digital volume control doesn’t provide much granularity. Occasionally, I’d reach points where one step was too low and the next too high.

The Zune supports MP3, WMA, WMA lossless, PlaysForSure DRM-ed audio, and its own DRM format for Zune Pass subscriptions. If you’d rather listen to radio, the Zune includes a built-in FM tuner. It also plays back video and displays photos on its 1.8-inch 320-by-240-pixel screen, and   the Zune   now supports h.264 and MPEG-4 encoding in addition to WMV.

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“Jack your iPod touch into iTunes, and you’ll soon discover that an updated version of the widescreen iPod’s software waiting in the wings. Although posted on Apple site on Friday, iPod touch Software Version 1.1.2 is now available through iTunes. Apple’s accompanying notes are typically brief-citing bug fixes as the update’s sole purpose-there are a couple of notable additions in the 157MB download”

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