Free alternative to Powerpoint for creating presentations

Those who work in companies or as independent professionals and dynamics involved, often to create presentations with slides. If you use Windows definitely use Powerpoint, who uses a Mac instead uses the KeyNote program. Microsoft Powerpoint is the standard in the world to create multimedia presentations and allows easily slide to draw and write with pictures and animations. There would be no major reason to seek alternatives to PowerPoint to create presentations were it not for two main reasons:

• Microsoft Powerpoint is not a free program but is part of the Office suite;
• There may be no need to use a program installed on the desktop, but rather a web application that allows easy sharing and collaboration, without forcing anyone to use Powerpoint.

Let us see the best free alternative to Powerpoint to create presentations with programs and web applications, even in new and different.

1. The only free program that can compete with PowerPoint is OpenOffice Impress. The presentations can be created easily with 3D clip art and drawings, animations, and various display modes. Impress supports multiple monitors, so that you can watch something else while the slide on the slide projector. Of course you can save a presentation in PowerPoint format for sending to people who are still locked into Microsoft products. Alternatively, Impress can also create slideshows and flash swf file to embed in websites.

2. Web applications to create Powerpoint presentations from the Internet without downloading programs are basically three:

• Google Docs Presentation is easy to use, fast to load and lets you create new presentations, in collaboration with other people. You can change the theme and the background of the presentation, insert text boxes, pictures and videos, import individual slides and much more. Files can be saved on the online space made available by Google.
• The true and original Microsoft Powerpoint is available online as a web application on the Office Web Apps and as a Facebook application with Docs.com.
• Zoho Show is more polished graphically than Google Presentation allows you to show slides and live and online, through the tool Zoho Meeting.

3. SlideRocket is a new online program to create graphic presentations of superior quality. You can register a free account that allows you to save files up to 250 MB. It has a nice user interface, allows to add themes, layouts, forms, graphs, tables, images, audio, video and Flash animations, can integrate content from other sites such as Flickr and YouTube and can be integrated with Powerpoint. You can also create forms for surveys and interactive checklist. SlideRocket presentation can be saved on your computer as a portable executable file so you can run on computers not connected to the Internet. The instrument is made entirely in Adobe Flash, but there is also support for HTML5 so that presentations can be easily viewed on the browsers of mobile phones, iPhone, and smartphones. When you create an online presentation within SlideRocket it can share with a group of people and you can monitor who has viewed the presentation, without the need to receive confirmation.

4. 280 Slides is the online service to create and share Powerpoint presentations and slides style. You can also upload ppt or pptx files created with PowerPoint and import them into 280 Slides. The web application is really well done and probably better than the same Microsoft Powerpoint, for image quality, opportunities for customization and personalize, for a variety of effects to be applied. 280 Slides is can also integrate with Slideshare, the PowerPoint viewer that works online like Youtube.