Joe Cherian asked me about creating a presentation slide-making app. Here's the first release:
http://re-bol.com/slidery.exe
There are some cool ideas to work on to make this a really practical little app for people who do a lot of presenting.
The basic idea, from the help/instructions:
Slidery allows you to create full screen slide presentations quickly and easily. Entire presentations are written as essays, using simple markup characters to indicate which elements are displayed in the presentation. This encourages presenters to think about slide content naturally, as opposed to focusing on the mechanics of laying out page displays. With Slidery, you create each full presentation within a single text file, and that text file can be used for both printed handouts and as the slide presentation source.
In printed handouts, viewers are able to see which bullet phrases were selected, within the context of the full presentation content. This allows the audience to more easily understand what each bullet means. Often in presentations, bullet points are so cryptic that handouts don't serve any useful purpose... or they force the listener to furiously scribble notes, instead of understanding and processing the information being presented.
Slidery provides a simple solution to those common problems, for both audience and presenter.
Slidery can include images and even entire executable programs in a presentation. This allows you to create features which are difficult to complete in other presentation systems. The potential capabilities of this option are limited only by your needs and creative abilities. You could, for example, include bar charts which display live data collected from a web survey. Or you could include formulas with computations performed live, using slider controls or other widgets. You could include spreadsheet calculations performed from files read live during a presentation, etc. The code used to build powerful little apps is simple to learn.
Slidery runs instantly, without installation, on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, as well as on many legacy platforms. The entire system is about 1/2 meg (small enough even to email every OS version as a tiny attachment), so you can be sure your presentation will run anywhere there is a computer.