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<title><![CDATA[By: ChadaProductions]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95950</link>
<description><![CDATA[As a small buisness this program -unique in respects- seemed perfect for us. It installed ok but crashed, <b> TWICE </b> Once on uploading images and second on the drawing button. We have sent an email to the creators of said software as we were deeply disapointed with said software and have uninstalled it completely from our computers! 
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:02:23 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95949</link>
<description><![CDATA[I did try Presentation Assistant 1.6.9, it does work somewhat on Vista, but has to be Run as an Administrator.  The Electronic Pointer makes it crash, but the other things I tried mostly worked, and there are hotkeys for some features.  The Enable Screen Drawing hotkey gave me the Whiteboard instead of the screen, and there were some drawing bugs.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:44:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95948</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new version of ZoomIt (4.0) is available, it has enhanced LiveZoom support on Vista and Windows 7.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:38:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Garvey]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95947</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new version of Presentation Assiatant is available. It is full compatible with Vista. 

Get the latest edition here:
http://www.goldgingko.com/product/presentationa.exe]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:36:46 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Max]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95946</link>
<description><![CDATA[Looks very handy for file backup but, having been employed as a professional "backup consultant" I can tell you that the most important aspect of backup software is the one which is most overlooked. Ability to restore. Backups you cannot restore are as useless as no backup. This requires no restrictions on installing extra copies and ideally a system-independent means of restoring content. e.g. bootable ISO

If you intend using this for system backup but lose the system with the software installed on it then you're pretty well "double-sixed".

Given these restrictions and looking at the product as a casual file-backup then there's not much that can't be done for free with say 7Zip, some batch files and a free scheduler. At least the backup content is universally transferrable. You can always AES encrypt the result using Truecrypt.

Shame, it looks a useful little program, Oh yes, the activation key didn't work in Windows 2000.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:01:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Lu Hulu]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95945</link>
<description><![CDATA[#45 Fubar,

With regards to your comment to Giovanni, I have to agree with you because I have played with Presentation Assistant after installing it and while it has many features, it is precisely the many features that make it impractical to be used in a live presentation. Frankly, no audience will appreciate the presenter firing up the PA Control Panel and getting to the features with it. A mouse and keyboard driven application, though simple, would be good enough. I have hardly come across a training or lecture where so many of the features are necessary and yes, the blue control panel is distracting.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:38:25 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: MichaelC]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95944</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a neat program, even if you are not doing a presentation.  Write a note on the screen, set the timer as a reminder, use the sidebar for launching applications, magnify, and more.  Interesting set of features; all of the ones I tried out worked well &amp; quickly.  Windows XP.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:55:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: DJ]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95943</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a very cool program. Installs and works well on XP SP3. Much better than any of the alternative software suggested here - not that they aren't good suggestions ;). I was reluctant to try this and explored the suggested alternatives, only to find myself back to try this one. And I am glad I did. I won't try to mess with this on the Vista but on this machine it is great. Thank you GOTD and Goldgingko.com!]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:53:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95942</link>
<description><![CDATA[#33,36,38, Lu Hulu, Process Explorer gives you information about all running processes, realtime and some historical (especially using the graphs).  While I think that anyone can use it, it has an incredible number of features, so you can skip the stuff that you don't understand.  Process Monitor is for tracking the detailed activity of processes, so it logs (in memory or to disk).  It's not for the average user, but for those with an understanding of Windows internals.  If you do a boot log, even with heavy filtering, it will capture an enormous amount of information.  Under Vista, a number Sysinternals utilities will expose more options when Run as an Administrator.  All Sysinternals utilities are standalone (no-install).  Of course, you can always create a shortcut to them and place the shortcut someplace convenient, like Quick Launch, etc.

#39, MichaelMooreFan, your convoluted explanation says that running Setup as an Administrator fixed it for you.  Did you try all of its features and settings?  I had already tried that, and it still didn't function properly for me.  #37, mike, yes, my security software warned about the message hooking, but it didn't matter whether I allowed it or not.  Installing and running software with your security software shut down or excluding it defeats the entire purpose of security software.  Except for anti-malware false positives, which are a separate exclusion from other security checks, and Internet exceptions for things like ad-blocking, I've never had to disable security for an application (some browser-related things need to be downloaded and installed outside of shut-down browsers, but security doesn't need to be turned off to do that).  Bad coding is bad coding, that's the developer's fault, not Vista's.  I made some reasonable efforts to get this to work, but if it won't support my normal Vista configuration, it's useless to me.  Other apps, like the extremely small ZoomIt, run fine without any special requirements.

#41, Giovanni, sometimes I like your lists of alternatives, but the needless Vista-bashing doesn't suit you.  The people who bash Vista are the people who aren't using it.  I have news for you, Windows 7 mostly is Vista.  It's marginally more efficient, somewhat less secure, and has a changed UI, but otherwise is much the same, based on much of the same code.  Microsoft's goal was to make sure that all Vista programs and device drivers ran on Windows 7.  Guess what, Windows 7 doesn't guarantee XP compatibility, that's why Microsoft supports XP (and lower) applications via running XP within a virtual machine (depending upon what version of Windows 7 you get).  Nearly all programs that don't function properly on Vista are badly-coded.  Games are notorious for bypassing clean coding standards, which is largely why some don't function on Vista.

There are a number of these types of applications, and I don't use them, but I understand their purpose and I've seen them in use.  Adding more features doesn't necessarily make a better product.  Some of these presentation utilities, like ZoomIt, are completely keyboard- and mouse-driven without a visible UI which would detract from whatever's being presented.  You're showcasing something else, not the presentation utility.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:01:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: AK]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/presentation-assistant/#comment-95941</link>
<description><![CDATA[Concerning 8.                    
     “Useing Spotlight and Curtain to bring audience’s attention
Using spotlight and curtain can attract the audience to focus on the current key area”

More idiomatic expressions might be: 'Use Spotlight to bring the audience's attention.'  and 'Using Spotlight and Curtain can attract the audience to focus on the current key area.'  Fairly understandable, few adjustments required. 
  "...does it give me the impression that the developer is quality conscience."    What does this mean?  That the identity of the developer is "quality conscience"? Abstractions have learnt to create software? Plato's world of forms, perhaps?   Or  'the developer HAS a quality conscience' ? Here, "quality" has not been qualified with any adjective, so remains indeterminate. One could surmise that it's use is in accord with common slang expressions peculiar to certain English subcultural groupings, where the simple declaration of "Quality!" is supposed to convey positive connotations. But this is not entirely clear.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:41:24 -0400</pubDate>
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