Send Your Own Thanksgiving Greetings in PowerPoint Using authorSTREAM

It's the last week of November and it's time for Thanksgiving! Traditionally the last thursday in November is celebrated as the Thanksgiving Day in US. Thanksgiving is not only a time for having fun and have turkey dinner, it's also significant for homecoming, prayers and expression of gratitude and also pondering over all that you are thankful for. It's a time for wishes and for exchanging greetings with each other.

We at authorSTREAM are also excited about Thanksgiving and celebrating this day with Thanksgiving presentation greetings. Some Members have made a number of greetings on Thanksgiving using PowerPoint presentations. Here is one such greeting card from one of our members:

Happy Thanksgiving

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You can also create and share your own greetings in PowerPoint on Thanksgiving through authorSTREAM. Simply create a presentation in slides using PowerPoint and upload to authorSTREAM . To send it as Thanksgiving greetings, go to our Greetings section and select your presentation and customize it and preview to send it as a Thanksgiving greeting card. If you are registered, you will see all your presentations on the right panel of the Greetings section and you can select the one to send.

If you are running short of time and just in the last minute, check out the Thanksgiving Greetings collection that we already have and make a choice and send it over for a quick wish.

Insert your own videos in PowerPoint presentations 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.