Mother's Day 2012 PowerPoint Background Free Download

The annual Mother's Day for 2012 is coming in two weeks. It's time for us to think about what gift we can prepare for our affectionate mother. Happy Mother's Day PowerPoint is a classic design that you can easily express your love and thankfulness. The Mother's Day PowerPoint can further be converted PPT to video for sharing on YouTube or burn PPT to DVD as gift for long-term storage and watching on TV with whole family.

If you're going to make a happy Mother's day PPT, you can use these Mother's Day PowerPoint background to make a presentation explaining what the meaning of the Mother's Day is.


How to create Mother's Day PowerPoint template using these free Mother's Day PowerPoint background?

Because Blogger doesn't allow me to upload ready PowerPoint template, never mind, below I will show you how to create Mother's Day PowerPoint template yourself.

Open your PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2010 for me), go to the “View” tab, and click “Slide Master” below.

Now you're in the Master View mode, by default the second slide is selected. Remember to select the First slide, with “1” on the left. That is the master slide, everything you do on this slide will be applied to all slides.

Now click “Insert” tab to add the Mother's Day PowerPoint background. You will see all the slides like this:

Click “Close Master View” to apply the changes.

To save as Mother’s Day PowerPoint template so that you can simply double-click to use, click “Save As” and choose “PowerPoint Template” as output format.

Happy Mother's Day!

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View PowerPoint on Toshiba Excite 10 LE

It will ever to wrong to make your tablet even thinner and lighter in the mess of tablet market where all most all mobile producers or former computer manufacturers are getting involved in. Last year, Toshiba released its full-featured tablet – Toshiba Thrive, but the result is not so satisfying.

The new Toshiba Excite 10 LE is a big hit because of its thin body and light weight. Let’s take a look at what Toshiba Excite 10 LE is compared to other popular tablets.

	Toshiba Excite 10 LE	Apple iPad (2012)	Asus Transformer Prime	Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Weight in pounds	1.12	1.44	1.32	1.24
Width in inches (landscape)	10.1	7.3	10.3	10.1
Height in inches	6.9	9.5	7.1	6.9
Side bezel width in inches (landscape)	0.75	0.87	0.8	0.8

Brief information of Toshiba Excite 10 LE:

The Toshiba Excite 10 LE is the thinnest, lightest 10-inch tablet, weighing in at 1.2 pounds and measuring .3 inch thin. This tablet is powered by Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich, and offers expandability with a variety of built-in ports, including HDMI, USB, and microSD card. Bluetooth for wireless headphones and a keyboard is also available. The 10.1-inch tablet has a 1280x800, LED-backlit display and the screen is made of Corning Gorilla Glass.

Almost all the websites are eager to talk about the cameras, but I wonder how many people do you really use a phone to take pictures or record HD videos? For me, never. Anyway Toshiba Excite 10 LE offers 5MP camera which is able to take up to 720p video, which could be enough for ordinary uses and a front-facing camera for video meeting, if necessary.

Besides, expected features such as GPS, Bluetooth audio and peripheral support, and integrated speakers are all here.

If you’re interested in this Toshiba Excite 10 LE tablet, what does it matter to read the following few words? Assume you need to view the PowerPoint when you’re not in the office with computer by your side, you may need to install Office apps like Quickoffice or Document To Go for Android. But if the PowerPoint has important narrations or video clips embedded, you should try another method – convert PowerPoint to video to keep all the information.

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Apple Will Release iPhone Nano Together with iPhone 5 in 2012

The semi-annual iPhone Nano rumor has surfaced yet again, this time with news claiming that Apple will release the small, entry-level device at the same time as the iPhone 5 in 2012.

China Times is reporting that Apple is looking to expand into the low-end smartphone market, as its lowest price iPhone is too expensive to compete with entry-level Android smartphones. The newspaper also reported that the iPhone-producer is planning to release this new low-end model later this year, possible at the same time the sixth-generation iPhone hits the market.

At the moment, Apple’s iPhone 3GS is the cheapest at $375. While it does seem a lot cheaper compared to the iPhone 4S, it’s still a lot more expensive than some budget Android phones. On the other hand, the third-generation of iPad named the new iPad was released in March with its astonishing 2048 x 1536 retina display and more powerful hardware like the A5X processor. But great pressure is then when Amazon claimed to released its second-generation Kindle Fire, which is a strong competitor toward iPad because of its great performance and low price.

This is hardly the first time rumors of a smaller, cheaper iPhone have surfaced. The iPhone Nano is rumored to be one-third smaller than the iPhone 4S, about 2.65-inch screen, still clear enough if you want to view PowerPoint on iPhone Nano, watch movie on it, play games on it. Although the rumor of a low-end iPhone Nano has been reporting since at least 2009, but it seems that Apple is holding its bottom line. With the vast growth and fast popularity of Android smartphones, will Apple change this time?

It’s about time too. As they did with the iPod by releasing different versions of the same device in different price ranges to appeal to a broader market, Apple can again corner the market by making an iPhone for everyone, regardless of your budget.

We’re more interested in seeing what the iPhone 5 will look like, but Apple will probably have their way and blow everyone away with this miniature device as well. If it has some extra features that it’s bigger brother doesn’t, which could be one incentive to interest shoppers. Let us know your thoughts on a possible iPhone Nano.

8 Online Applications to Save PDF as Word You Should Add to Your Favorites

PDF has its advantage as a popular document file. As I know, many eBooks, contact, order and many other files are saved as PDF for various reasons and security is one of them. Once saved as PDF file, you cannot copy the contents out or edit the PDF file unless using PDF Editor which needs to pay.

Assume you find the material you want but in PDF format, then you need to save PDF as Word for Word is much more universal and easy to edit. Here we are going to introduce 8 online applications for you to save PDF as Word. Add them to your favorites, don't need to download anything or install on your computer. All you need is a browser with Internet connection, upload you PDF to the websites and you will get the Word as soon as possible.

1. PDF to Word

One of the most popular online PDF to Word converters online, other free tools like PDF to Excel and Word to PDF are available too. You should have a try.

2. Zamzar

Not only a PDF to Word converter. It supports much more formats like image formats, document formats, video formats and audio formats. Upload your PDF in Step 1, select “Doc” in Step 2, fill in your email address in Step 3, press “Continue” in Step 4. Once the conversion is finished, Zamzar will send you an email and you can download the converted Word.

3. PDF Online PDF to Word Converter

Select the PDF file you want to convert to Word, and click “Convert” to upload and convert in one step.

4. Convert PDF to Word

The desktop version needs to pay, but for ordinary people, the online PDF to Word application is enough. A lot of other tools are provided too, you can see them on the top navigation bar, like PDF to Text, PDF to JPG, DOC to PDF, etc.

5. Free PDF Converter

This application supports converts online PDF to Word as well upload local PDF. Select the output format as “Word (doc)”, then fill you email address and convert the file.

6. PDF to Word Converter

Select you PDF file you want to convert to Word and enter you email address and click “Send” to begin the uploading and conversion.

7. PDF to Word Online converter

Another free online application to convert PDF to Word, it provides detailed options for you to choose about the format you want to keep in the output Word file. Like others you need to fill in your email address.

All of the above free online PDF to Word applications can help you to convert PDF to Word for your needs. But they require you to:

• Upload the PDF file
  
• Fill in your email address
  

So you should be careful to protect your privacy. If the PDF content is very important or confidential, I suggest you try other methods.

8. Google Docs

Google Docs can also help you to convert PDF to Word. Here is the guide on how to do in steps. Google Docs is much safer for:

• Google is a trustful company
  
• You’re uploading PDF to your own account
  

Do you have any other free online applications to convert PDF to Word?

Earth Day 2012 PowerPoint Background Free Download

Earth Day 2012 is coming in two days. This is the first Earth Day that I really pay some attention to. I know every April 22 is the annual Earth Day. But I don’t know the detail about it. Today I searched on Google and got to know the history and mission of Earth Day. It is true that we need to do something to help saving our home, the planet we all lived on. Earth Day movement has very strong desire to get the support from governments, but 42 years passed, it seems that not much has been achieved. So the theme for Earth Day 2012, Mobilize the Earth, urges us to do our part to help make a better future for us.

I'm going to make a PowerPoint presentation about saving the Earth, about the problems of our planet like the pollution, huge population, global warm, natural disaster, etc. If you’re interested too, here I collected some free Earth Day 2012 pictures for your PowerPoint background. Join us and save the Earth! Convert Earth Day PowerPoint to YouTube video and share with more people.

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PowerPoint 2007 Files to PowerPoint 2003

Problem:

I did a PowerPoint on Microsoft office 2007 saved it on a flash drive, then went to another computer to load it on an older version of PowerPoint and it wouldn't open.

Answer:


This is from a question on Yahoo Answer. The next time when you need to ask question, you can say clearly what the older PowerPoint version is so that we don’t need to guess and say if this, if that. Anyway, I assume that the “another computer” has PowerPoint 2003 installed.

So the question would be how to make the PowerPoint 2007 file work on PowerPoint 2003. Please note that it is on “another computer”.

I came up 3 solutions for this question.

1. Change the PowerPoint format.

From PowerPoint 2007, the PowerPoint formats have changed, with an “X” as the suffix. Another trick of Microsoft to force users to upgrade their PowerPoint and pay once more. Anyway, older PowerPoint versions, say PowerPoint 2003 cannot open PowerPoint 2007 files.

You can click the “Office button” the round one with Microsoft logo on it and choose “Save As” and you will find the “PowerPoint 1997-2003 Presentation” on the right. That’s it. Save a copy of the PowerPoint 2007 file as PPT format so that you can open with PowerPoint 2003 directly.

2. Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack

PowerPoint 2003 users can also install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack that enables you to open PowerPoint 2007 file directly in 2003.

It seems wonderful with the above two methods. But think about the following two problems:

A. The new features you included in PowerPoint 2007 will not be available if you use PowerPoint 2003 to view it.

B. To move the PowerPoint 2007 to “another computer” with PowerPoint 2003 installed, you should also copy the inserted music and videos with the PowerPoint file too, and make sure that you put them in the same folder, has the same path as the old computer. If not, you need to insert again and reset the parameters.

3. Convert PowerPoint 2007 to video

We can save PowerPoint 2007 to PDF too, and the reason why we convert PowerPoint 2007 to video is that you can save all the PowerPoint 2007 effects like the animations, transitions, music and video clips in the output video and in the right, proper order.

The output video can be played on any computer with media player installed like Windows Media Player or even QuickTime Player on Mac.

Have you any other solutions for this topic?

Add Invisible Shortcut to End PowerPoint Presentation Quickly

When you’re doing the PowerPoint presentation, how will you end the PowerPoint slideshow in the following cases? You didn’t organize the time efficiently that the time is nearly out but the presentation is far to the end. You have an emergency and need to quit earlier. How can you end the PowerPoint presentation early without looking like you’ve shortchanged the audience?

In this article we will show you how to add an invisible shortcut to the end so that you can quickly end your PowerPoint. Your audience will never know that they have missed parts of the PowerPoint.

1. Jump to the end

We will add a button on the slide that links to the end slide in the presentation. Click “Insert” → “Shapes”, choose any of the shapes.

Drag your mouse to draw on the slide and place the shape at the corner of the slide.

Now add the hyperlink to the end slide on the shape. Right click and choose “Hyperlink”.

In the popup window, click “Place in this Document” and choose the last slide to hyperlink to.

2. Invisible the button

It will be much better if the inserted button is invisible, you only need to remember the location and move your mouse there and click it. That’s why we place it at the corner. Right click on the shape and choose “Format Shape”.

In the popup window, choose “No Fill” in both “Fill” and “Line Color” tab.

3. Invisible button on every slide

You will never know when you will need to jump to the end slide. It’s never in the plan, that’s why we create this quick shortcut to end the PowerPoint slideshow.

Method 1:
Copy and paste the button to every slide. The hyperlink and location will be the same as the original slide.

Method 2:
By adding button to the Slide Master, the button is available on all slides so you can click it at any time. In this way, you should create the invisible button in the Slide Master from the very beginning. Click “View” → “Slide Master”.

Then you create an invisible button on the first slide, the main slide just like how we do above. Then click “Close Master View” to return to normal mode.

That’s it! When you want to end the PowerPoint quickly, don’t click on the slide, it will advance to the next slide; click the invisible button and jump to the end slide directly.

The idea in this post is from:

How to create invisible buttons in PowerPoint
How to add hyperlink within PowerPoint

Use Google Docs to Convert PDF to Word for Free

How to convert PDF to Word file?

Have you heard of these two document formats: PDF and Word. PDF is created by Adobe, you need PDF viewer to open it and you cannot edit it unless you have PDF editor. Word is part of Microsoft Office suite, with Microsoft Word and other Word-like programs, like WPS, Open Office, you can create, view and edit word documents.

Usually people need to convert Word to PDF for security and format reasons, because most of computers have Word installed, but no PDF editor. PDF is an ideal way to email or share your document with others. There are many free ways to convert Word/Excel/PowerPoint to PDF.

Sometimes you need the content in the PDF format, but you cannot copy it out directly and it will be a waste of time to type into word letter by letter. Converting PDF to Word is best choice, you can pay PDF to Word converter to do the job. But why not choose Google Docs if the free method is available for you?

Google Docs is an online application which is equivalent to Microsoft Office. Besides download Word as PDF, it can also convert PDF to Word for free, that is what Microsoft Word 2010 cannot do.

1. Upload PDF to Google Docs.

Login Google Docs with your Gmail account. Gmail account gives access to Google Docs and other Google services. Your Google Docs homepage is like this and click the “Upload” button.

Click “Files” in the drop-down list, and then browse the PDF file on your computer you want to turn into Word.

In the pop-up message, check the box of “Convert text from PDF and image files to Google documents” so that the content in your PDF file will be recognized and extracted into Word document instead of image. The settings should be the same as the picture shows.

Then click “Start Upload” to upload PDF to Google Docs. Upload finished.

2. Save as Word file

Open the converted PDF file in Google Docs, you will see that the content has been extracted out and you can copy and edit it freely, like below:

Now click “File” → “Download as” → “Word” and you can save the Google Docs to Word on your computer.

Now, we can use Microsoft Word to open it, view it and edit the PDF content.

Done! Isn’t it easy to convert PDF to Word file using Google Docs for free? Do you have any other methods to convert PDF to Word for free?

Asus Transformer Pad 300 Sell Start from $359, May Be Best For Win 8

We first heard of the all-plastic brother of the Asus Transformer Prime, the Transformer Pad 300, back at MWC 2012 at the end of February. If you are fond of the Transformer Prime but don’t get enough budget, then Transformer Pad 300 would be a perfect alternative.

Thanks to the new information on Amazon, the Transformer Pad 300 is said to start selling at around $359 in the United States (the 16 GB model). And if you like, you can pay an extra $149 to get the keyboard dock. Once connected with Transformer Pad 300, you turned it to a super netbook, that’s what transformer means. Instead of the finger navigation on the touch screens, it would be much easier to type in words on the keyboard, if you’re taking notes at class or conference.

Because the 10-inch device is powered by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and feature a 1280 x 800 pixels resolution IPS display, as well as 1 GB of RAM, you have enough reason to expect a PC-like performance when your watch HD movies like the latest Titanic 3D. Camera is another essential that people care a lot, the 8MP rear-facing shooter has the ability to take wonder pictures and record high definition movies at 30 fps. And the 2 MP front-facing camera makes video calling and online chatting possible.

Asus’ Transformer lines of tablets seem great and innovative, but according to survey, Transformer Tablets are not favored by the customers. Instead, they rushed into Apple Store around the world. Like usual, Android devices focus their attentions on the hardware upgrade, like the quad-core processor, large or huge screen and high pixels cameras. Apple iPad 3 (the new iPad) is still running on dual-core A5X processor and equipped with 5 MP camera, but no hurdle to its mass success.

Another good example may be Samsung Galaxy Note, which has a 5.7-inch screen, just a little smaller than the 7-inch Amazon Kindle Fire. However, Galaxy Note is a great success, sold more than 5 million in the past 6 months after release.

I think the transformer idea (with a keyboard dock) is brilliant but it seems that Asus go a head of the times. The rising needs to create, edit and view Office documents on tablets make it Asus Transformer Pad 300 even more appealing. But due to the compatibility of Microsoft Office, it may be a perfect match if Transformer Pad 300 and Windows 8 would be together.