Okay, so, you’re on the road and you’re due to give a presentation shortly. Unfortunately, the presentation is on your PC’s desktop back at home or, perhaps, the version you have with you isn’t the most up-to-date and there you are without a laptop and/or PowerPoint. Or, let’s just say you’ve avoided purchasing bloated suites like Office 2007 or OpenOffice altogether and rely strictly on new online utilities to fill any and all word processing/spreadsheet/presentation needs of yours.
Have no fear, you can quickly create a new or updated presentation online with 280Slides. There are a number of different online PowerPoint alternatives out there (Google even has their own utilitie within Google Docs) but I found 280Slides to be remarkably clean, lightweight and easy-to-use… and it has, in my opinion, the perfect amount of features to not leave you wanting more.
Of course, you have the basics like importing existing presentations, creating/re-arranging/deleting slides, the ability to add text/shapes/images/videos and, as you would expect, the option to save your final product to either your online account or to a downloadable file – with which you can burn to a disc or toss on a flash drive.
Those are the basics but 280Slides takes you beyond the essentials in some areas. For instance, when adding images or videos, one can not only upload, and subsequently embed, files from their own desktop but can search for online content as well.
Upon completion, you can share your final product via SlideShare, e-mail it directly from the site or grab a link with which you can embed on your own blog/site. If, instead, you just want to download the finished piece, you can select from four different file types: Office 2007 (.pptx), Office 97-2004 (.ppt), Open Document (.odp) and PDF.
280Slides – The App
280Slides – The Official Blog
