My latest experiment with Web 2.0 tools is trying out a couple of free slideshow tools.
My original plan was to try out Joggle, and while the user interface *looks* cool, I would up so incredibly frustrated over trying to use it and get a product that I couldn't make with just any old typical computer program. Joggle lets you import photos and music the most easily and there are options for uploading other documents and maybe even movies, although I had no success with either. The two examples of a Joggle slideshow that I was able to find both had background audio in the form a narrator's voice, but despite all of my efforts, I could not figure out how that was done unless the speaker uses another program to record his voice and then uploads that audio file into Joggle, which would make it fairly impossible to align specific descriptions with specific photos. There also appears to be an extremely limited list of options to personalize any product you make (for example, slide transitions and template styles) and though I stuck with this program to the bitter end, I couldn't figure out how to play my final slideshow. So in this particular showdown, I guess Joggle wins, and I just walk away with high blood pressure and wounded pride.
The good side I am trying to see in Joggle is that it is a place where you could possibly store images online and have access to them from any computer. Although, I should warn you, I couldn't manage to view more than half of my pictures only a few days after I uploaded them. This town just wasn't big enough for the two of us.
Due to getting burned so badly with Joggle, I tried another tool that allows me to do something different than most slideshow tools I've seen, and that's imageloop. The results of which are coming soon to a blog post near you...
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