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- saleem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41what more do you really need than fade through black, i mean honestly.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Maybe they wanted to spare peopel from having to sit through presentations with silly, unnecessary effects that make the presentation look like it was made for MySpace.
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28I hope it has more canned sound effects. I think my audiences are tiring of the cash register ringing on slide transition. (But they always love the gunshot sound, gets them everytime)
- samanathon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23The key word there is: "initially"
It might, but just as with all Google products, the size will grow! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I simply LOVE google's online apps. No longer do I have to go through the tedious task of saving in word, then emailing the file to myself. I just click save and boom, i'm done. Too bad google docs is blocked at my school. (no idea why)
- mathmanjeffy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Ooooh, yea! They should make a web browser that works right in your browser next!
- mathmanjeffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16@mark,
You haven't lived until you've sat through a broken glass effected "group by word" on every slide presentation! - samanathon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17windows school?!?!?!?
What's the next step? Screen Porch University? - markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20@crawfishsoul- When you started off saying that, I thought you were being sarcastic and witty, but then I realised you were serious. Not good. Seriously, sound effects have no place in presentations, ever.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12It's just a preference. It's okay, calm down, I didn't mean to insult your PC-loving sensibilities. :P
- wwwluckyro, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19Keynote rulz on that part :) And it actually rulez on all parts :P
http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/ - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13I love Keynote too. I make all of my presentations for school in it (windows school). From time to time, rather than a .ppt export I just hook my MBP up to a projector and make everyone go "Woah."
I can't wait for iWork '07... and iLife '07... and Leopard. God damnit! I want Leopard!
But yeah, I love what Google is doing too, making it so that I can work on some things anywhere. It's really great. - god4twenty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Hopefully it doesn't have the same import size limitations that speadsheets had initially.
- stuartjmoore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://stuartjmoore.student.umd.edu/GooglePaint/Gpaint.html
http://stuartjmoore.student.umd.edu/GoogleBrowser/Gbrowser.html
Made those a long time ago... - blakholephysics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Group by word? Ha! I go for every letter!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Proxies are blocked as well. My school's filter is ultra-strict. It even blocks digg (but not duggmirror =D).
- masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Don't worry rice, he just gets touchy about people bashing his employer and the products they make.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ehh, a school with all PCs. :P
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's the one big flaw with all web apps. Internet access should proliferate further in the future though, so Google will be on the winning side of this, I think.
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wow. That must be real character-building stuff.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4why do people care about effects so much?
if your goal is to create full-blown vector animation, use flash or director. - god4twenty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ Archeologist "I simply LOVE google's online apps. No longer do I have to go through the tedious task of saving in word, then emailing the file to myself. I just click save and boom, I'm done"
I agree, and if you're a Office '07 user you always have to go to "save as" to make it compatible with 2003 and older. PITA - samanathon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why would they need an OS? That defeats the purpose of online apps!
- zaph47, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I hope it doesn't work with Safari like Google Word doesn't
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4why is it that schools these days are so nazi about blocking websites? i understand blocking inappropriate stuff like porn or whatever, but seriously, what's wrong about everything else? you're afraid that students are going to get distracted or something? please teach them to discipline themselves in getting their work done of their own will (and if they can have fun too in that time and still get work done without distracting others, let them! what's wrong?). please don't be a nazi and block everything online that one would define as "fun". that's simply not the way to teach someone how to be responsible with their time.
- russellnation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3try kproxy.com even websense lets it work
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2who cares what app you use
you don't need to bash people because they use an apple product
same with Microsoft
I use Open office from time to time but Mostly when during school I use Microsoft office
Open Office has pdf export built in and you can turn slides into swf files
So stop acting like Microsoft is superior in everything - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Only thing they have to do yet is graphic editor (Paintly of whatever), browser (Firefoxly, likely :) and OS - and they will certainly PWN the world )))
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I can see one big flaw with this. Not everywhere I do my presentations has wifi access for my laptop, so relying on a web based app for presentations would be a huge risk for me. Just last week I was away for a week that promised "full internet access" for example, and it turned out what they meant was they had phone jacks in the room.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Just to complete WORLD PWNAGE, dude, just for that... ^)
- scott983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Page turn with graphpaper background has to be the best transition set for science presentations. I use it professionally these days and often get questions about how I did it at conferences.
- srg13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@broomett: he was actually talking about you, not Rice
- hupp3l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I love google's online suite too. I also use Thinkfree too though and I really like it, its a little more powerful than googles but I use both depending on what I want to do.
http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo - BiDi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope it will be able to unpack and "convert to useful html WITH IMAGES" in Gmail when it hits the market because those "witty" (annoyingly retarded) image galleries stuffed in power point presentations are a real pain in the ass to look at when you get a dozen of them daily in your inbox.
- searayman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3cant wait to see this!
- crazyboy1121, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OFFICE IS GOING DOWN!!! Google Says DOWN WITH THE STATUS QUE!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@superpotential
I completely agree. If I really wanted to, I try each of these proxies (http://www.antims.com/2006/04/15/blockzored/) but it's not worth the effort. They block keywords like death and hack also. People had problems doing research on the Black Death and Holocaust. I hate how strict my school is. - Continuum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One wordf ro you Google - Gliffy.
- vemerge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Justin, I use it the same way, although it kind of defeats the purpose. We are still relying on Office products to get our work done.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always just used the Google app suite (if it qualifies as a suite yet) while creating the document/spreadsheet/whatever, and then when I am going to present or turn in, I export to word for final formatting. So hopefully the product would allow for decent conversion to .ppt.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1id say picasa but picasa is not online
- masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"Click, save and boom goes the dynamite!"
I reckon saying things like that could get you arrested in Boston. But it might take a few weeks. - Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1firefox and internet explorer will do just fine
considering Google made its own ie7 optimization google doesnt need an os since an google os is more then likely to be a web based page syncing all of googles products which allready is possible with google personalized homepage - theOster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1one word:
"please support the importation of PDF files"
after a few OE's it looks and sounds like one word - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That guy should work in FBI....
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://bp0.blogger.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/RcZW5Jk4wvI/AAAAAAAAAS8/qmq1CgIe2nQ/s1600-h/google-docs-localizer-file.gif
well, at least it's user-friendly - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Do the world a favor. Hold your breath until any of these Google apps achieves even 0.5% market share.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2screw you all. i'm tired of cheesy presentations with default templates and canned sound effects. they look so middle schoolish.
if you want to make a presentation, don't give me what i've seen already. don't give me canned templates and sounds. create original templates and sounds of your own that illustrate your point concisely as needed. having slides that look good is great, but create something that looks good that's customized to you. and if you don't have time, i'd really rather have the good old black and white presentation than canned stuff. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1masgrada..thank you.. nce again the Mac fanboys prove that they are not equipped for intelligent debates. Hey..whenever anyone says something good about the other company...just claim that they must be getting paid for it.
Sorry, moron, but there is a reason why Apple's market share is non existent. Becuase MOSt peopel have zero problems with Microsoft products, especially Office. And if you can't do things with Office, then it is your fault.
Somehow it is not hard to beleive that you are unable to use Office. You don't strike me as very smart.
I guess that is why Apple is paying you. - SabbathXXL, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Googlewang. Sounds catchy. Redundant even.
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