Five noteworthy PowerPoint add-ons

by Jody Gilbert  |  April 10, 2012, 6:15am PDT  |  Image 9 of 10

YawnBuster

Well, you gotta like the name, for starters. And as you can probably guess, YawnBuster is designed to interject a little life into your presentations -- via group activities, polls, brainstorming features, quizzes, and other audience participation ploys. It's slick and nicely designed. Once it's installed, you can access a menu of options from PowerPoint's Add-Ins tab, insert a Flash-based activity onto a slide, and then tweak the activity to suit your needs. The trial version I looked at was massively encumbered by nag screens, but the product potential outweighed that annoyance.

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Jody Gilbert has been writing and editing technical articles for the past 20 years, including a stint with The Cobb Group/ZD Journals.

Jody Gilbert

Jody Gilbert
Jody Gilbert has been writing and editing technical articles for the past 20 years, including a stint with The Cobb Group/ZD Journals. In 1998, she won Ziff-Davis' Chairman's Circle Award for Editorial Excellence for her work as author of several Microsoft Office how-to publications.
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