Slide show and presentation tool
OneApp Slide Show 5.6.6
Creator: OneApp Software
Shareware: USD $25
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I originally reviewed version 5.6.3. Minor updates are frequent, mostly adding new features.
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Which scenario fits your situation? You want to present a 'slide show' to your photography club. You're asked to make a multimedia presentation to your office team. You're using your Mac to give a continuous product demo at a tradeshow. You'd like to distribute a visual training manual on Zip disks.
You could, of course, drag out your old Kodak Carousel projector. Or you could employ a high-end tool like PowerPoint® for the task. But if your requirement is quick setup and ease of use, OneApp Slide Show will likely do the trick. Affordably.
Before describing Slide Show's main features, here's what it does NOT do: It doesn't create images, movies, or sounds. Like your old Kodak projector, its purpose is to show what you've already created in GraphicConverter, Photoshop, and other image programs.
That said, OneApp Slide Show handles a wide range of movies, images, and audio files—including the leading formats (QuickTime, AIFF, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, Photoshop, etc.) together with a host of lesser files and formats. Your show can play up to 100 files or folders, all the while handling a mix of media types. The presentation is easily changed by dragging and dropping. And did I say you can add a sound track to the background?
Slide Show's foremost window (above) is where you'll organize everything, in this example a mix of JPEGs and GIFs plus one folder containing several more images.
You customize your show using the three tabs of its Presentation Preferences window (below). These include the automatic/manual operation, image size, and timing settings in the Mode area. Presentation Options add several more features that let you further adjust your show's appearance and operation.
Slide Show offers a modest selection of backgrounds, both solids (from the color palette) and patterned—in addition to the user's own desktop background. Perhaps a better description is "extremely modest selection." As a tool for business, the application would be enhanced with either a wider variety of preconfigured backgrounds or the option of inserting one's own background image. Or both.
A key Slide Show feature is its Standalone package. By saving your presentation as a freestanding application, you can distribute it on a Zip disk or CD-ROM. The recipient simply opens your show by double-clicking the file's icon. Could you send your show to someone as an email attachment? I haven't tried it, but even a show with a few images involves almost 3MB of digital space; a disk seems to be the logical distribution method.
I give OneApp Slide Show a positive thumbs-up as a well-designed and nicely priced software package. You can't go wrong by downloading and testing it for free; registering unlocks all its features. Download is 2.1 MB.
