StandOut — PowerPoint Killer
I ran across this great product called StandOut by Electric Rain. It is a presentation program, like Keynote or Powerpoint, which takes full advantage of the new display capabilities of Windows Vista and I must admit, I’m impressed. I even went as far as to sign up to Beta test it so I can give you all a first-hand look at it before it comes out.
This program separates the design process from the actual displaying of presentation, making it easier to run for the presenter/lawyer. The designer uses an edition of the software to create the template, they call them Design Kits, which are sent to the presenter who then inputs his content. What makes that so great is they allow the attorney to put their content in ‘on the fly’, while maintaining the professional look and feel of the presentation.
In the demo video, filled with the usual puffery in the beginning, the full potential of this can be seen. As you can see, StandOut lets you insert new media content with premade templates from the design section of the program. The caliber of these templates are only matched by Keynote, which as you may know, is Mac only. I’m ecstatic to finally see a company like Electric Rain making a program of Keynote’s professional presentation quality on a PC system and personally hope Apple is aware the gaunlet has been thrown challenging Keynote.
Source: www.technoesq.com