Enjoy Full-Fun PowerPoint Video of April Fool’s Day

Posted By Frank on March 18, 2010
in PowerPoint to Video Applications

April Fool’s Day, the 1st day in the middle Spring, is really a great time for joke and play. Have you already had funny pranks in mind? Do you want to make a special PowerPoint presentation for April Fool’s Day so that you can show it on YouTube, email to fun your friends and post on your WordPress or Blogger? Sounds amazing. You can make it with this helpful tool: Moyea PPT to Video Converter.

It is a piece of cake. Read on to get it.

Make an April Fool’s Day video with PowerPoint

Follows the 5 tips below to create your very Fool’s Day video presentation. Have fun.

1. Sort out your favorite photos/images of April Fool’s Day
Prepare pictures or photos for text of your Fool’s Day PowerPoint presentation. Make sure they look fine. You can use image editing software like Adobe Photoshop to improve your pictures.

To insert a picture to your PowerPoint presentation, click Insert -> Picture -> Insert Picture from File.

2. Choose a template or background for the Fool’s Day PowerPoint
A funny template or background is necessary for your Fool’s day PowerPoint prank. If you are looking for one, click here to download free PowerPoint templates and backgrounds.

3. Don’t forget animations and wipes
To make a vivid Fool’s Day video presentation, you should make better use of animations and wipes in PowerPoint. Meanwhile, do not add too many effects to spoil your project.

4. Give a thought to music, video or flash
You can also add a hoax song, or a video clip, or a funny flash, to accompany your Fool’s Day PowerPoint project. Click here to see How to insert a song to PowerPoint presentations

5. Convert your April Fool’s Day PowerPoint project to video
OK. Your PPT project is ready. Next, convert it to web-friendly video. You can use a reliable conversion tool like Moyea PPT to Video Converter to do that. Click here to download the PowerPoint to Video Converter

You can output the Fool’s Day PowerPoint to any format of video you like, e.g., MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, AVI, etc. Then you can upload your first April 2010 video to any compatible website, e.g. YouTube, Metacafe, your blog, or email the prank to friends or colleagues.

Happy April Fool’s Day 2010!

Mar 18th, 2010

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Free St Patrick’s Day PowerPoint Backgrounds, Download Now!

Green means healthy. Green gives vigor. Dress green. Like the wonderful Spring. Yes, it’s St Patrick’s Day 2010! You eat green food, walk green with a bike, write green with email and e-paper, live green with eco-friendly styles… Just for a ZERO-CO2 life.

And you can even think green. You can celebrate the Green holiday in a digital way - teach kids St Patrick’s history, make photo album of St Patrick’s Day, all with magic MS PowerPoint, or PowerPoint-made video, or a DIY DVD movie with PowerPoint.

If you need fresh background pictures for your special PowerPoint project, the following collection may help:

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More St Patrick’s Day Related:

St Patrick’s Day Symbols and Traditions
Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with Green DVD Slideshow

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Mar 16th, 2010

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Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with Green DVD Slideshow

Posted By Frank on March 11, 2010
in PowerPoint Usage on Holidays || PowerPoint to DVD Applications

St. Patrick’s Day is near! The theme is green, the color of Spring. The Irish festival is now a popular western holiday. As a Christian, you may have many funny traditional activities to participate in, e.g., parades at cities and towns, delicious Irish food and drink. In addition, there is a special craft idea for your St Patrick’s Day - Create a holiday DVD with the best photos taken with your digital camera and organized in PowerPoint.

Things You Should Have

MS PowerPoint

Quality photos of St Patrick’s Day

Moyea PPT to DVD Burner

A blank DVD disc

Additional (for sound DVD slideshow)

A good song for background music

St Patrick’s Day movie or video clip

Steps to Create a St Patrick’s Day DVD with PowerPoint

Whatever the focus of your St Patrick’s Day DVD slideshow is, e.g. history, tradition, symbols, parades, or kid’s crafts, you can find it a cinch to make it as you follow the 5 steps below:

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Step 1: Add St Patrick’s Day photos to PowerPoint

You can import chic holiday photos using Photo Album feature in PowerPoint. Click Insert -> Photo Album -> New Photo Album… to add the ready photos. To edit the photos, under Insert > Photo Album, select Edit Photo Album to edit album layout, frame shape and add in captions to the imported photos.

Note that you’d better optimize the photos with Photoshop or else image editing tool before inserting to PowerPoint.

Step 2: Add template/background to your DVD presentation

You can use a default theme (Under Design tab) in PowerPoint. If you want a different one, click here for free special PowerPoint Templates and Backgrounds.

Step 3: Add animations, transitions to the slides

Some animations and transitions will make your St Patrick’s Day project look more vivid. But do not add in too many of them.

Step 4: Add music/narration/video clips to your presentation

St Patrick’s Day song can be added to play across your presentation. So does your very voice narration. So does a funny holiday video clip that you shoot with your digital camera. Sure to help make a dynamic effect for your DVD slideshow.

Step 5: Convert the St Patrick’s Day presentation to DVD

When the presentation is ready, you can convert and burn it to DVD with a conversion tool like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner. Download and install the PPT to DVD Burner.

Insert the blank DVD disc to your computer. Add in your valentine presentation to the burner. Choose a DVD output (HD or Standard). Add in an image to make a unique logo. Select a matching DVD menu for remote control on TV.

Click Start to burn the St Patrick’s Day PowerPoint to DVD.

A minute or two, you will get a clear-cut DVD with St Patrick’s Day slideshow. Connect it to a DVD player, and enjoy it with family and friends on TV. You can keep the disc as a precious memory that will never perish.

Mar 11th, 2010

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St Patrick’s Day Symbols and Traditions

Posted By Frank on March 10, 2010
in PowerPoint Usage on Holidays

The Irish-origin holiday St. Patrick’s Day is associated with many special and popular traditions and symbols. If you are interested in MAKING a PowerPoint Slideshow for ST. PATRICK’S DAY, you should first learn something about the holiday. You can also upload the PowerPoint project to YouTube after converting to compatible video with PPT to Video Converter.

Typical Symbols of St. Patrick’s Day

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Shamrock
Why shamrock becomes a symbol of St. Patrick’s Day? Partly because of Ireland’s abundant coverage of clover plants, and largely because of the strong association with Christianity. Shamrock is used to visually illustrate the concept of the Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) when St. Patrick tries to convert polytheistic pagans to Christianity.

"A clover is one plant with three leaves, but the three leaves are necessary to make it [complete]," explains Prof. Mahony. "[In Christianity,] God is three persons, but it’s not the same as three gods." The simple analogy helps non-Christians understand a fundamental element of the Christian religion, facilitating conversion.

Through retelling this story, shamrock became associated with St. Patrick and Ireland’s conversion to Christianity. It is a widely used to commemorate Saint Patrick’s Day, and in modern times has been appropriated by secular institutions as a symbol for the Irish.

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Four-Leaf Clover
Most clovers are with three leaves, while rare four-leaf clovers do exist. Finding a four-leaf clover is thought to bring one extreme luck. Different from Shamrock, four-leaf clovers have no religious allusions associated with St Patrick’s Day. Each leaf of a four-leaf clover has a respective meaning as hope, faith, love, and happiness.

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Leprechauns
A leprechaun looks like a little old man and dresses like a shoemaker with a cocked hat and leather apron. Aloof and unfriendly, leprechauns live alone and pass the time by mending the shoes of Irish fairies.

According to St. Patrick’s Day: Parades, Shamrocks, and Leprechauns by Elaine Landau, the legend is that the fairies pay the leprechauns for their work with golden coins, which the little people collect in large pots - the famous pots of gold often associated with leprechauns.

Listen closely for the sound of their hammer, and you might be able to capture one! If you do you can force him (with the threat of bodily violence) to reveal where he’s hidden his treasure. Be careful! Do not take your eyes off him for if you do he will surely vanish and your hopes of finding his treasure will vanish with him.

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Green
Do you know why people all wear green on St Patrick’s Day? The tradition is started by school children. Green is also the color of spring, the shamrock, and is related to hope and nature. Green used to be a color for flags of several revolutionary groups in Ireland.

What is more, Ireland has the name of "Emerald Isle" because of its lush natural greenery. Says Prof. Mahony, "One of the things that strikes people all the time is how Ireland is incredibly green–it’s very far north, but it doesn’t get frozen. When people say that ‘Ireland has 40 shades of green,’ they are right!"

St Patrick’s Day Tradition: The luck of the Irish
Will you be lucky this St. Patrick’s Day? If you want, follow this advice:

1. Find a four-leaf clover.

2. Wear green (so you don’t get pinched).

3. Kiss the blarney stone.

4. Catch a Leprechaun if you can.

Have a wonderful St Patrick’s Day!

Mar 10th, 2010

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Free Alice in Wonderland Film Pictures for Your PowerPoint Presentation

Posted By Frank on March 10, 2010
in Free Image Resources

Alice in Wonderland, a fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and mainly stared by Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway, has been running through Walt Disney Pictures in 3-D and IMAX 3-D since May 5, 2010 in the United States and United Kingdom.

Adapted from classic Lewis Carroll’s tale, the film is almost a sequel to it, seeing the titular Alice not visiting Wonderland for the first time but returning 13 years later at the age of 19. The grown-up Alice returns to Underland by accident. But she doesn’t remember it at all. She is told that she is the only one that can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon controlled by the Red Queen…

The film is said to be full of ingredients, exquisite costumes, excellent voice casting, brilliant voice, etc. If you are a fan of Burton and interested in the new film, take a glance at these Alice in Wonderland pictures. You can also add those you like to a PowerPoint presentation reviewing the wonderful film.

Free Alice in Wonderland Film Pictures/Images for PowerPoint

Click on a thumbnail(a picture displayed below) to open an Alice in Wonderland full-view picture in a new window. Right-click the enlarged picture to save it to your local computer for use in PowerPoint. Free Dowload!

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