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Nick MacKechnie today announced on his website the release of PowerPoint Producer 2007 beta.

You will need to go to http://www.connect.microsoft.com to get it. Full instructions on Nick’s post.

I downloaded and installed it easily, although it had several UAC prompts during the install.

I ran the wizard and added photos quickly from a folder (from Judes Birthday) and then added a song (Michael Frank’s “Eggplant” from The Art of Tea).

I was able to synchronise the pictures and song and then publish as a presentation really easily. Awesome tool.

If you use PowerPoint for timed presentations or speaking engagements, then you should definitely download and trial this tool.

Wow – what an amazing website. Not only is the content fascinating – well to me anyway – I love old world war 1 and 2 vintage airplanes – and these machines a beauties – but the website is also a work of art. (and they are Kiwis!)

The Vintage Aviator is an amazing website. The developers have spent countless hours putting this together. There is a full description of what they did to make this work on the Drupal website.

They list all the modules they use as well as the custom modules developed and other tweaks they had to do. The developer, dman also explains how they solved the CSS issues (including ignoring some of the IE6 issues).

This is a great site – congrats to all involved.

This weeks Geek Girl is well known internet personality Lisa Brewster. She has answered my interview questions below.

Geek Girl Profile -

Name: Lisa Brewster
Screen Name: Adora
Personal Blog: http://www.sophistechate.com
Other Blogs: http://www.technarium.com, http://www.barcampsd.org, http://www.startupschwag.com
Social Networks: Twitter, qik, MyBlogLog, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr,
Tumblr, Technorati, DailyLit, Last.fm, 1up, Pownce, Notemine.
Current Employment: Systems Engineer for Cardinal Health, and Product Manager for Startup Schwag
Location: San Diego, USA

What is your motivation for blogging?

First and foremost I blog to communicate ideas.  My first audience was myself when I started at Livejournal years and years ago, and my scope has grown larger and larger based on what projects I'm involved with.  I've tried blogging for money before (paid position, not like Pay Per Post), and as passionate as I was about the topic, I never felt very comfortable (I don't blog well under a deadline).  But my biggest motivation is that I have a bad memory...I'll forget my thought processes and troubles and successes all too easily, so blogging is a way for me to document what's in my head so I can have an opportunity to go back and reflect on those experiences.

This post proudly produced in Windows Live Writer.

This is not advertising – at least I am not getting paid to say this. However I do know one of the guys in the Microsoft Live Team, Angus Logan. These guys are knocking themselves out to get to market internet based services that extend and improve our productivity when working wired or wireless.

And I have to say that Windows Live Writer is an awesome tool! Anybody who blogs should be using it. Any body who has a website that they regularly update should be using it.

The latest version (available now in technical preview) adds some great picture handling features that mirror some the the effects from Word 2007. Drop shadows, reflections, and more – done with simple mouse clicks. Posted straight to your blog. did I say how easy it was?