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When giving demos of ongoing projects to management or users, it would be nice to have a systematic way of directing their attention to a specific region of the UI. One thing I would really like is a tool that I can install in the background, activate with some customizable key sequence (ctl-meta-hyper whatever) and then draw regions of the screen which would then either highlight those regions or else dim the converse region. I've tried searching for such a tool, but only come up with screen-grab utilities which isn't quite what I want.

What do you use to manage viewer attention during demos (particularly in a teleconference where some of the audience may be remote)?

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Sounds like you could use ZoomIt from sysinternals... err... Microsoft. Unless that's the wrong O/S (meta key)?

Pontus Gagge
Thanks Pontus Gagge. Zoomit is a neat tool, but not quite what I had in mind. Still, it's a useful thing to know about. As for the question about O/S - my laptop, which I normally use for demos, is dual-boot WinXP and Fedora Linux, though mostly I tend to use XP in these teleconferences.
Ian Dickinson