Customize & Edit Mac Presentations

QuikSlideshow 2.0 for Macintosh enables users to customize presentations and give slide shows using full-color photos and text frames from Optilearn's Environmental Views Series. Educators can create an album of thumbnails and choose and sequence frames for viewing and presentation. A tag file for a set of pictures can also be created, allowing other users to share customized albums. Slide shows can be advanced either automatically or manually and viewed with an overhead projector or an LCD panel. Finally, five new Environmental Views Series CD-ROMs have been published: Freshwater Pollution, Natural Hazards, Air Pollution, Tropical Deforestation and Livestock & Grazing. Optilearn, Inc., Stevens Point, WI, (800) 850-9480. M

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