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August, 2010
In Action: Send The Fire Background

PhotoShop: Content Aware Scaling and Fill

July, 2010
Feature Review: YouTube and Vimeo support

Feature Review: Color Key

Pictures from the God and Country Festival

June, 2010
Feature Review: Transparent Color Tolerance Setting

Feature Review: Split Monitors

Dana Key

May, 2010
Feature Review: Blink/Scroll

April, 2010
Feature Review: Control Panel Tabs Arrangement

March, 2010
Feature Review: Audio Improv

Feature Review: Instant Message/Stage Message

Feature Review: Overlay Improv

Feature Review: Color Improv

February, 2010
The Live Video plug-in Still Has Life at CFN

January, 2010
Reflection Effect, PhotoShop vs. SongShow Plus

Feature Review: Reflection Effect

December, 2009
5 Minutes With Doug Reece

The December 2009 Edition

November, 2009
Tips & Tricks: Have a D: drive

October, 2009
Frio Suite

Feature Review: Pasting from Zip Files

Photos from the United Pentecostal Church International Convention

Photos from FUEL Event

September, 2009
Feature Preview: Basic Global Display Properties

A Better Alternative to Anti-virus Software for Projection Machines

Feature Preview: PowerPoint Import

Feature Preview: Re-running Slide Show Builders

Test Your Video Files!

August, 2009
Inbar Bakal: Abient/Jewish Crossover

VBS at EagleNaz: The Giving Slides

VBS at EagleNaz

July, 2009
Networking the Social Networks (attempting to anyway)

In Action: Capital Christian Center

Paul Baloche Live

Feature Review: Clipboard Paste Formatting Options

June, 2009
Chill Cafe

Feature Review: Title Slides for Songs

Revelation Song

Feature Review: Stage Monitor Output

Yet Another Blog

Feature Preview: Easier Hue Adjustment

Feature Preview: Hiding Objects on a Slide

Feature Preview: HTML Export: Custom XSL

Feature Preview: Enabling/Disabling Effects Layers

May, 2009
Wall-E

Feature Preview: HTML Export, Custom CSS, Part 2

Feature Preview: HTML Export, Custom CSS

Have a Backup Plan

Feature Preview: HTML Export

Windows 7

April, 2009
In Action: The Transformed Life

My Church's Favorite: Paul Baloche Songs(?)

March, 2009
Feature Review: DeckLink Plug-in

February, 2009
Feature Preview: Importing External Media

Feature Preview: Enhanced Copy/Paste for Media Files

Feature Preview: Importing from Zip Files

Feature Preview: Invoking Slide Show Builders from AutoPlay

In Action: Margin Adjustment Saves the Day

Working with PhotoShop Artists

January, 2009
The Waiting Kind

So do we need keyboard certification?

Windows 7, or 6.1?

Windows Vista: 2nd Anniversary

December, 2008
In Action: Savor the Season, Part 2

The 2008 Christmas CDs

Two of my favorite hymns arrangements

Blu-ray won, but will it matter?

Micheal W. Smith Christmas Concert

In Action: Savor The Season

What not to do: CD Players

In Action: O Come, O Come Emmanuel

November, 2008
In Action: Praise His Holy Names

In Action: For All of Life

In Action: Using Stained Glass as a Background

Feature Preview: Gaussian Blur

October, 2008
Using Shake and Grain in a Promo Slide Show

The Grain Effect

Feature Review: Video Sequence Builder

A Weekend at Trinity Fellowship Church

September, 2008
Feature Review: Shake

Photo Slides Builder vs. PhotoStory

Feature Review: Pan / Zoom Effect

Review: Integrity Music's Flexx

Feature Preview: Edge Blend and Edge Blur

August, 2008
Further explanation of Hue Adjustment

Feature Preview: Huescale

Feature Preview: Hue Colorize and Hue Tint

July, 2008
Feature Preview: Import from SongSelect Download File

Explaining the difference between the Hue Adjustment and Color Filter effects.

Feature Preview: Hue Replacement

Feature Preview: Hue Adjustment

June, 2008
Microsoft sans Bill Gates

Farewell Tim

In Action: Father's Day

May, 2008
SSP at GMA

April, 2008
Roll your own Top Ten List

Photo Slides with Captions Builder

Improved scripture text support for slide shows

New and improved slide builders

March, 2008
Converting Songs to Slide Shows

Comming next: Slide show feature enhancements

Frosted windows

Video examples of CinFX 2

Using video files as a fill for text

February, 2008
Enhancements to the wish list

The History of Auto Cue

Adding three-year olds to the test team

Presentation Trifecta; Part 3

January, 2008
Presentation Trifecta; Part 2

Target aspect ratios

Enhanced spell checking

Happy New Year, January 2008 Edition

December, 2007
A year in the life of SSP: 2007

Merry Christmas and other tidbits

Rethinking the right-click

Presentation Trifecta; Part 1

The New Christmas Ornaments Tranistion

November, 2007
An oldie but goodie for the Christmas season

Hymnal give-away

Enhanced clipboard capabilities

Distinct Effects for Fills and Outlines

October, 2007
It is time to say "so long" to DirectX 8 hardware.

Build your own gradients

Service elements for programs

Enhancements of the fills technologies

September, 2007
Selecting videos and images using thumbnail previews

The new search mechanism

The new Display Properties Window

No more font smoothing (option)

Detour: Amazon's Unboxed Service

August, 2007
Wrapping up work for the next edition

July, 2007
The influence of the Wish List

June, 2007
Re-using old motion backgrounds

May, 2007
Old Blur, New Blur

April, 2007
Feature Preview: Flare Effect

Feature Preview: Negative Effect

Feature Preview: Transparency

Feature Preview: Sepia Effect

March, 2007
Feature Preview: Image Mask

Feature Preview: Gradient Mask

Feature Preview: Color Adjustment

Feature Preview: Image and Text Rotation

Technology Preview: Background Effects

February, 2007
Technology Preview: Watermark Effect

Package-to-Go and external files

A slide editing enhancement

SSP and Windows Vista

January, 2007
Is it time to say "So long" to DirectX 8 hardware?

RipFX conversion nearly complete

A brief history of the SSP graphics engine

Giving Rhapsody a try

Four words:

December, 2006
It's been a good year, so -- thank you!

Performance testing

CountOfChildren++

Don't forget those Christmas Goodies!

November, 2006
One baby down, one to go

GIFs, PNGs, and RipFX

GoFishMedia

Microsoft Office and the new UI

Enhancing thumbnails and previews for slides

October, 2006
My own SSP/PowerPoint lock-up event

DVD Enhancements, Phase 1

DVDs and aspect ratios

September, 2006
Back into DVD code

What we're doing now: video playback enhancements

August, 2006
CinFX this week!

New Features and the role of the Wish List

New widescreen control panel layout

July, 2006
Releasing latent capabilities

(Don't) keep reminding me of this

Something else I didn't mention

A system-crash-free vacation

June, 2006
Working on the next evolution

The wish list is live

Hooray for PhotoShow Builder!

Let the evolution begin!

May, 2006
On track for the 31st!

The long-lost ProModule

April, 2006
Stock Hymns and Christmas Carols

Visualizations 5: Sparkle and Panorama

Recalling the barely-out-of-prototype debut once again

Visualizations 5: Kaleidoscope

Ease-of-use at men's retreat

March, 2006
User specific preferences

Audio file support in V7

Color adjusting background video using opacity

Final word on the unlock mechanism

February, 2006
In the Role of the End-user

Vista on the vista

Working Through the New Unlock Mechanism

Blog hiatus...and catch up

January, 2006
The Interactive Wish List!

I can see the light...

The New Year of DVD

December, 2005
End-of-year tidbits

Looking Ahead: 3D Animations

SongShow Plus at the GMA

Looking Back: The debut of SSP

November, 2005
Video clips: Fair use or not fair use?

Looking Ahead: What happend to the green diamond?

Looking Ahead: Background Improv

Pictures from Seacoast Church

Even I can learn something...

October, 2005
V7 Required System Configuration: A Tough Question to Answser

Pictures from Moody Church

Looking Ahead: Video Placement Properties

Looking Ahead: Video Effects

Pictures from The Rock Church Event

Another Day at NNU

Looking Ahead: Video Chains

SSP + SLI = don't go there yet

September, 2005
The Weekend at The Rock Church

Looking Ahead: Customizable Toolbars, part 2

Looking Back: An early skeptic turned early advocate!

Looking Ahead: Customizable Toolbars

August, 2005
Microsoft threw us for a loop

The other day at NNU

A few pictures...

July, 2005
Well, I can finally relax...

It's about to start!

So What Happened to Version 6?

A Week Ago Today...

June, 2005
Looking Back: In the beginning…

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