Powerbullet Presenter 1.35 lets you create impressive, multipage, multimedia, animated Flash presentations. The program even includes several effects you don't get in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Powerbullet comes with many preset animation effects. You can assign them to any object or text, setting delays for fade-ins, fade-outs, and more. You can insert sounds and voice recordings in a presentation and work with numerous graphics file formats. You can also synchronize sounds with pages, so that a page won't automatically advance until the sound has been played. Animating text and graphic objects is actually fun. A menu in the program's Element Animation and Effects Settings dialog gives you options with names like "sneak in right," and "spin drop from left."

Creations in Powerbullet can also be saved as HTML or exported to an EXE file for a presentation that functions in an auto-advance mode. If you save to the Web, you can also view and edit the source code.

Powerbullet Presenter's interface has some notable niceties, such as a wizard that pops up to help you create animated bulleted lists. Its interface and tool set aren't quite as rich as some of those in fee-based presentation products (like Liquid Media, which until recently was free for personal use), but it's a simple, flexible, and free way to assemble presentations.