Insert your own videos in PowerPoint presentation and upload to authorSTREAM

Now that you have created great slideshow mashups using authorSTREAM desktop, which lets you insert YouTube videos and images from Bing, it's time that we give you more. You can now insert videos from your desktop to PowerPoint presentation and they will just play fine as they play in PowerPoint slide show.

You must be aware of that linked media files never go along with PowerPoint presentations when you share them using email or upload them on a presentation sharing website, resulting in missing audio or video when viewed by others. authorSTREAM desktop has come up with a solution for PowerPoint presentations with linked audio or video. authorSTREAM desktop now lets you upload such PowerPoint presentations having linked media(audio/video) and inserted audio or video will be retained in authorSTREAM output.

Firstly, select the video file on your system and insert the video in the presentation through the "Insert Movie from file" option in the PowerPoint. Finally, upload the presentation to authorSTREAM using authorSTREAM desktop. authorSTREAM currently supports AVI, WMV, MPEG, MPG and few other video formats in addition to WAV and MP3 audio formats.

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So start uploading rich media presentations on authorSTREAM using authorSTREAM desktop. Download authorSTREAM desktop here. We would love to hear your comments on this feature and any other enhancement that you would like us to work upon.

Sign in to authorSTREAM using Google accounts

Signing in to authorSTREAM is super easy now as we have recently enabled logging in through Google accounts. When you sign in using your Google account, you are asked to connect your Google id with authorSTREAM. Existing users can also sign in using their Google ids.



Yes, you see twitter and Facebook icons too but these are not enabled yet. We will announce them here as soon as they are up and going.

Below are some of the updates in this release:

1. We have reduced the number of required form entries for new accounts on the Sign Up page too. Now it will only ask you to enter your Name, Username, Email and Password to apply for an account.



2. You can log in to authorSTREAM with either your Username or Email. Initially, only email used to work.



3. We have also updated the drop-down menu on the main page that lets you manage your account, change password, notification settings and contacts.

Send Halloween Presentation Greetings Using authorSTREAM

We have discovered that PowerPoint is a very powerful greetings-creation tool so we want to share this ability with our users by increasing activity on the presentation greeting cards section, through which you can share PowerPoint presentation greetings with your contacts.

In line with this idea, we have recently also implemented the address book feature in the greetings section, which enables users to import contacts and send greeting cards to them without a restriction on the number of recipients. This was restricted to only 25 recipients initially. Along with this, we have created a special Halloween PPT greetings section and will be adding other events too shortly. We thank all the members who sent feedback on the new look and feel and we encourage you to send your views to us on feedback [at] authorSTREAM [dot] com.

As we all know, Halloween is the spookiest time of the year, and is celebrated on October 31. This is the Christian holy day of All Saints. The day is associated with the colors orange and black and is strongly associated with symbols like jack-o-lanterns, spiders, vampires, ghouls, zombies, haunted houses, witches on brooms etc.

authorSTREAM extends the capability of PowerPoint by accepting presentations created in
PowerPoint and providing a platform to send these presentations as greetings. All available Halloween presentation greetings on authorSTREAM have been created using PowerPoint. You can create your own presentation in PowerPoint with animated images, sound files etc.; add rehearsed timings, and upload your presentation to authorSTREAM to send as a greeting card.

Check out this Halloween presentation greeting card:

Happy Halloween 2009

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Write to us or drop in your comments with your views. Also stay tuned for our Thanksgiving wishes, which will be added very soon.