Hello guys, I've been quite busy lately juggling fatherhood, work, ideacamp and setting up the mapping party that I haven't been able to update this blog as much as I want to. So now that I have a few minutes to spare I'd like to point your attention to a pretty cool application (more of a script really) I came across yesterday, must have been what we drank and ate at Talaba Joe's (thanks Mark... I enjoyed the quantum physics talk hahaha) because I just randomly searched for presentation apps online and managed to stumble upon Impressive.Impressive is a program that displays presentation slides. But unlike Impress or other similar applications, it does so with style. Smooth alpha-blended slide transitions are provided for the sake of eye candy, but in addition to this, Impressive offers some unique tools that are really useful for presentations. Its not as flashy or feature-loaded as the usual presentation software but what I like about it is its simplicity and the potential to do more (it is after all a FOSS app), its just a 150k python script (fully configurable and free) that allows you to render your PDF files as presentation, providing hardware-accelerated effects (page transitions), a smashing overview screen that looks like Compiz or Cooliris, a highlight box that stays that way until you disable it and the cool spotlight effect (so you can throw away that laser pointer). Of course its not as complete as Keynote,Powerpoint
or Impress but in some ways I find it more impressive :)
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