7 Free Web Apps to Create Killer Presentations
November 12, 2009 4:38 am Education, General, Internet & OnlineNow more than ever businesses are starting blur the lines of where work can be accomplished. With the rise of a new generation of web apps, many of which are totally free to use, professionals are doing their work totally online without any additional software. Web applications that allow you to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, store them, and share them are cropping up all over. Hence, this post will focus on 7 free web apps to create killer presentations.
Here are 7 popular apps that are being used to create decent PowerPoint comparable presentations.
280Slides – 280Slides is a free website where you can create presentations online. Even though it is a free app, it comes with some amazing features. One of the most noticeable features is its quality interface. The process for creating presentations is kept very simple and straightforward—and very similar to PowerPoint. 280Slides works in your web browser, allows you to import existing presentations, design using template themes, auto-saves presentations, share your presentations online, download presentations in PDF and PowerPoint formats. You can also add photos and videos. 280Slides provides online storage for all documents.
Zoho Show – Regardless of whether you’re a professional, a teacher, a businessman, student, or anyone who wants to design a great-looking presentation, Zoho Show provides all of the features you need completely free online. The web app comes complete with pre-built themes, clipart, and shapes. Since you have drag-and-drop features, it makes building a presentation that much easier.
Google Apps – Google’s online tool including free online software for word processing, spreadsheets, and, of course, presentations that are very much like those made using PowerPoint. Many users enjoy using Google’s entire package—even though there are other presentation services out there.
Adobe Presentations – Following the success of Buzzwords, Adobe has created a free online presentation builder called Presentations. With you simply sign up and then login to create, store, and modify PowerPoint-style presentations as in a group capacity (a great collaborative element). Unlike some of the others listed here, Presentations is still under development. For instance, it does not currently have an option to export PowerPoint files, yet this will be remedied with forthcoming upgrade. Like Buzzword, Presentations promises users a high degree of customizing ability as far as the style of the presentation. You can add FLV movies.
Spresent – Spresent is free and very specialized presentation tool that allows users to build flash-based presentations. Basically, it is a freeware alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. Spresent allows you to easily create online presentations and then share them with friends or business associates. With it, you will be able put a final presentation on the desktop or display it on the web on your blog or webpage. Spresent makes it easy for you to publish your final presentation on your desktop or put it on display on your blog or website.
Vcasmo – This web app is actually an online presentation editor that is flexible enough for you to use numerous file formats, video, audio, photos and more. Once you’ve created a presentation, Vcasmo allows you to embed and share your presentations on the web. It also comes with a Facebook app.
ThinkFree – With ThinkFree Online, you can certainly create great presentations, but this web application comes with all of the bells and whistles that come with this new generation of online office packaging. You will have document storage; you can create, view, and edit Microsoft Office compatible files over the web. ThinkFree also has collaboration features like group editing and file sharing. You can also publish documents to ThinkFree Docs, your Web pages, blogs, or Internet applications, and quickly browse your published or private files to find the files you need.
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