PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Check out the PowerPoint Live Video

Check out the new PowerPoint Live video, an eight-minute vignette of conference imagery and video footage, using software and technology that you would learn all about at the conference.

The video has lively content and Rick Altman, the host of the conference explains why PowerPoint Live is a great event. There is also a download option for the video available that you can share or see again later.

See the video now.

Filed Under: Events
Tagged as: Events, PowerPoint Live, Rick Altman

Microsoft’s Mac Attack

…once Apple has Windows Vista running smoothly on its operating system and helping its business sales, the company will try a more profitable avenue: marketing a version of OS X able to run on regular PC’s that now use Windows. This strategy would turn Boot Camp on its head, as the company selling all those $140 retail copies of its operating system would be Apple. And with hundreds of millions of Windows machines in the world, getting even 1 percent of PC users to switch to OS X would be a huge new business for Apple. It would also create another headache for Microsoft. And that, in the end, is what Apple does best.

Robert Cringely discusses more on the New York Times site.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Opinion

How to Wow ‘Em Like Steve Jobs

I just read an amazing article by Carmine Gallo on the BusinessWeek site and wanted to share this with you.

Carmine says, The Apple CEO is well known for his electrifying presentations. Here are five tips to make your next talk just as mesmerizing–or close. Apple Computer, now celebrating 30 years of innovation, has revolutionized the way we use computers and listen to music. Now its charismatic co-founder, Steve Jobs, has transformed the corporate pitch. Anyone who has watched a Jobs keynote will tell you he is one of the most extraordinary speakers in Corporate America. Jobs learned a long time ago that a leader must be a company evangelist and brand spokesperson.

Carmine further adds, There is no better example of Jobs’ passion than the famous story of how he convinced John Sculley to lead Apple in the mid ’80s by asking him, “Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world?” The former Pepsi executive chose the latter and, although the pairing ultimately failed to work out, it reflects Jobs’ sense of mission — a mission that he conveyed consistently in the early years of Apple and continues to today.

Read the entire article here.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Carmine Gallo, Presentation Skills, Steve Jobs

Apple Launches Software to Run Windows XP

There has been plenty of news about how newer Macs will be able to run Microsoft Windows. Here are details from some news sources.

‘Windows’ Macs Could Take Bite Out of Microsoft

For the legions of diehard Apple fans, the announcement that some Mac computers would be able to run Windows was nothing short of earth shattering. “It’s huge news for the Mac community. It’s a real bombshell,” said author Leander Kahney. “Hell has frozen over, black is white, two plus two equals five, the whole fabric of the universe has been ripped open.”

Read more on the ABC News site.

Macintosh cult greets Apple’s Windows

After long imploring computer users to “think different” and defining the Macintosh as a lone bulwark against the Windows onslaught, Apple Computer has decided to open the gate, at least a bit. Two decades after the first Mac arrived, Apple said it would offer users of its latest models a simple way to run the Microsoft Windows operating system and its own. That means a single Apple computer will run programs written for either the Mac or Windows, though it will have to shut down one system to start the other.

Read more on The Times of India site.

Windows on Mac, Simultaneously

Apple Computer’s surprise software release allowing the company’s newest Intel-based Macs to run Windows has put “virtualization” — an alternative, and arguably superior, method of achieving the same result — in the spotlight. Released Wednesday, Apple’s Boot Camp beta installs Microsoft’s OS in a partition on the hard drive, thus offering Mac users the option of booting up either with OS X or Windows XP. Virtualization, by contrast, allows Macs to run Windows and Mac OS X not just on the same machine, but at the same time, with only a slight drop in performance.

Read more on the Wired News site.

No mass market shoo-in for Apple’s Boot Camp

Apple’s decision to run Windows natively on the Mac through its Boot Camp project may be a landmark in the history of computing but its net effect on business IT buyers will be zip. The fact is that the Mac user and the PC user remain two tribes forced to coexist in one universe by unfathomable fate.

Read more on the Inquirer site.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Mac OS, Microsoft Windows

ESchoolMaps – Maps for PowerPoint

If you are a PowerPoint creator such as a designer, teacher, or someone who creates PowerPoints in the office, you know that getting a good quality map into PowerPoint is not the easiest of things you can do. It might involve buying some expensive maps that come only in EPS or Adobe Illustrator formats. Again, these open only in Adobe Illustrator or any of the other few high-end graphic applications that are more oriented towards professional graphic designers rather than PowerPoint creators.

And even if you manage to go so far, you still need to get your maps into PowerPoint – for that you will need to export to a graphic file format that PowerPoint understands. And then you’ll discover that none of those maps can be easily edited using PowerPoint’s own tools. By this time, you probably give up the whole idea of using a map in your presentation!

That’s the reason I was so happy to see a collection of maps that were actually PowerPoint presentations.

Let us explore more.

Filed Under: Clip Media
Tagged as: Education, Maps, Review