The e-promo Multimedia Business Card Kit provides everything you need to design, burn and label your own CD-based electronic business cards. Ideal for e-executives and IT entrepreneurs. Business cards are essential for providing contact information and as an advertisement, but the simple cardboard card is limited in what it can hold. Enter the e-business card, a small, rectangular CD-R which can hold up to 35MB of multimedia material. Designed for todays IT business person, they offer a "more spectacular business card experience".
This kit contains everything you need to prepare and label e-business cards. The software offers 11 designer backdrops for your mini-presentation, complete with animations, buttons and all the other furniture youd expect on a lively Web site.
You havent got much freedom in how this all works, as apart from a choice of three different layouts, the format is fixed. You add your own content, of course, and can incorporate your images as well as text, but the overall size of a picture is limited to 400 pixels square.
Once youve created your screens and tied them all together into a miniature presentation, you can burn your card. The e-promocard, although rectangular, fits a standard CD-R drive and only the centre section is used when burning the normal spiral groove. Once burnt, you can set about labelling your cards. The kit includes labelling software, a sheet of labels and label applicator, so you can do the whole job.
The only drawbacks with the e-promocard system are that the e-business cards are quite bulky--youd have a job getting more than three or four in your wallet--and that the blanks will cost you around 1.2 (80p) each. --Simon Williams