I hate PowerPoint. It can’t decide whether it’s a wizard or a WYSIWYG, and in falling between the two stools makes the sort of mess you’d rub a puppy’s nose in.

Of course, I do use PowerPoint. It’s one of those business tools you can’t avoid, not so much “Best of Breed”, rather “Least Bad of the Bad Bunch”. What I don’t get is people who use the thing for fun!

The worst crime of all is afflicting your friends with a PowerPoint presentation of your holiday snaps, with all those “special effects” that remind one of unemployed double-glazing salesmen in nylon trousers trying to learn how to sell used cars. A few minutes of that, and most sane people will be reaching for the nearest blunt object.

Slide Effect is designed to save you from being bludgeoned to death with your own holiday souvenirs. Instead of grudgingly slumming it as a slide machine, Slide Effect lets you turn your pictures into a high-energy audiovisual extravaganza, with synchronized music and cinematic special effects.

Though it won’t – unfortunately – kill PowerPoint, Slide Effect does come from that mountainous land formerly known for its professional soldiers. For this reason, Alain Bocherens, brought me in to localise his website and tune up the presentation of the application’s easy-to-use features.

Once he’d applied the changes, and well after he’d paid me, I checked over the website for typos, and things that didn’t actually work in context. I’ll admit I was partly motivated by fear of being skewered to death by Swiss pikemen, but it was worth it. Alain said:

If I need another documentation/proof reading task I won’t hesitate to work with you again.

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