The awesome sewadars at SikhiToTheMax have recently released Sikhi To The Max 2 — a great program for viewing the text and English Translation of Gurbani during a Gurudwara program. You can download it here: Site 1, Site 2.

It features a copy of the Office 2007 User Interface, which I worked on when I was at Microsoft. Here’s an open offer to the sewadars — I can help write an Office 2007 Add-in that integrates with PowerPoint! So it will be a Tab in PowerPoint 2007 and not a separate program! Let me know!

I’ve also created a few basic themes for use in Gurdwaras. The first is “High Contrast” so the slides look clear in all lighting conditions. The second is a blue theme. They are designed to make sure the text looks good. Just copy these files to C:\Program Files\SikhiToTheMAX II and then you can access them from the “Options” tab of SikhiToTheMax. The templates work on all versions of PowerPoint.

Slide Template 1 - High Contrast Black Theme
Slide Template 2 - Blue Khalsa Theme

Try out the themes above and let me know what you think! If you create your own, let me know as well!