09-08-2004, 10:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Conduits Pocket Slides 2.0 in Beta
"Pocket Slides 2.0 is in its final beta testing phase, and should be released very soon. Look out for these new and improved features: new editing shapes, layouts and color schemes, as well as support for backgrounds, hyperlinking, shadows, sound and music."
We haven't heard much from Conduits lately, but it looks like they've been cooking up a new version of Pocket Slides - and it looks tasty! They're looking for beta testers for Pocket Slides 2, so if you've got some time to spare, check it out.
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09-08-2004, 10:19 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 78
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The new version sounds awesome! Also from the link, it says that they are gonna release new versions of Pocket Player and Artist. I can't wait!
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09-09-2004, 04:06 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I'd be interested to see if this supported wireless control of PowerPoint presentations off the laptop. I'd love to be able to have my laptop connected to a projector, and use my Pocket PC via Bluetooth to control PowerPoint presentations. 
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09-09-2004, 06:56 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 784
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Wow, it's amazing all the features they've packed into this "pocket" sized program.
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09-09-2004, 02:43 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Thanks, everyone, for the great compliments and feedback so far. We've gotten an excellent interest in the beta testing too, which certainly helps.
DJ Apod, Pocket Slides is a PowerPoint viewer/editor so that you can leave your laptop behind -- instead of your Pocket PC controlling your laptop, how about your Bluetooth phone controlling your Pocket PC? There are several (free?) solutions out there for controlling PowerPoint on a laptop -- I don't have any links unfortunately.
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09-09-2004, 03:19 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Does it allow me to edit and save a NATIVE PowerPoint file?
My scenario is the following;
I attend a meeting and I don't want to take my laptop.
At the meeting, I decide I want to make a small change to my presentation.
I then save the file to SD card, take the SD Card out of the PocketPC, put it in an SD Card reader (so now I effectively have a flash key), and walk over to the presentation computer where I can display the presentation through the computer onto the projector.
If I can't save in native PowerPoint format, I either have to carry my laptop with me (so what's the point of the PocketPC?), or I have to rely on the PC in the conference room being able to ActiveSync (what are the chances of that?)
I've tried all the slide viewing programs in the past, but they have all had this essential feature (to my mind) missing. To me it means I still have to carry my laptop into meetings. Shame.
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09-09-2004, 03:34 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 198
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We don't support native PowerPoint files just yet, but there's an easy workaround that would (likely) work in your scenario. We do support two-way conversion (convert to device, make edits, convert back), and with one extra step, you can accomplish what you asked for.
You can install/copy the Pocket Slides desktop conversion software to your SD card (essentially it's an EXE and some DLL files). Then, all you would need to do is before leaving your desktop, convert your PPT file into a CPT (Pocket Slides Presentation) file. Our conversion has a feature called "embedding" which bundles the PPT file into the CPT file (since some details are not carried over into the CPT file, the original PPT file is required for "reverse conversion").
With the CPT on your device, you can make presentations with it from your Pocket PC, and/or perform any edits.
Saving the CPT to the SD Card, and plugging it into a desktop reader, simply run the conversion software again to convert back from CPT back into PPT format. You'll have your PPT file intact, with all the changes you made to the presentation on the device, ready for presentation from the laptop. The laptop would not have to have Pocket Slides or ActiveSync installed on it, since you would have the conversion program on your SD Card.
Of course, you could present using Pocket Slides from the Pocket PC - is that not desirable? For version 2.0, we are supporting many more in-presentation features than our 1.X version (sound, save annotations, actions, post-animation effects).
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09-09-2004, 09:53 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 101
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Thanks for your reply. I think that might just do it, assuming that the conversion software doesn't need to be installed and can be run directly off the SD card. Am I right?
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09-10-2004, 01:17 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Jason Patterson
Thanks, everyone, for the great compliments and feedback so far. We've gotten an excellent interest in the beta testing too, which certainly helps.
DJ Apod, Pocket Slides is a PowerPoint viewer/editor so that you can leave your laptop behind -- instead of your Pocket PC controlling your laptop, how about your Bluetooth phone controlling your Pocket PC? There are several (free?) solutions out there for controlling PowerPoint on a laptop -- I don't have any links unfortunately.
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Thanks Jason. I'd still love to be able to use my Pocket PC for PowerPoint slides. I was just wondering whether Pocket Slides would also support wireless control of laptops. It's not a big deal. I have found a few links out there for software that performs the function I was looking for. A lot have not been updated though. However, you do a great job and thanks for the reply!
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09-10-2004, 02:41 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 444
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I tried Pocket Slides and was totally blown away by the functionality. The only reason I didn't buy it is that my X5 just doesn't seem to have the horsepower necessary to make PS run well. I think that if you're doing simple, or mainly text-based, presentations, the PPC can handle everything ok. Unfortunately, I use a lot of graphics, build effects, etc. For that, my PPC is just agonizingly slow.
Maybe between the upcoming X50 and the new version of PS, I'll be able to leave the notebook behind for presentations?
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