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On Tue, 10 May 2011, James Kilty wrote:
HelloMy wife's charity, Arthritis Care, has standardized on Powerpoint presentations, to the point where they prefer to do courses in a location that provides a projector that takes a usb stick loaded with a PP presentation and it runs. This means the volunteers doing the presentations only have to have an up to date usb stick. They are also thinking of buying such a projector to deal with the many suitable locations that cannot provide one.Is there an alternative for them I can recommend?
The devices themselves are a bit of a boon - no cables, no fiddling with Laptop controls - no laptop, so nothing to go wrong, no screensavers, batteries to run-out, of updates to be forced upon them (happened to someone giving a presentation at Motorola once!) And they play images as a slide-show and some will play video too. Some even have on-board memory to upload data into - even better as there's no USB stick to lose...
However they do all seem to be MS orientated...So just prepare the stuff offline on a PC running Linux and OpenOffice and save in PPT format and off you go.
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