Touch Screen Simulation Presentation
Here’s a fun video on YouTube where the presenter was clever (and practiced) to create a well rehearsed and animated presentation. Take a look here.
– Troy @ TLC
Office 2010 The Movie
Two things:
1. Microsoft is definitely showing they know how to have fun. Check out the movie trailer for the upcoming release of Office 2010 here.
2. Microsoft has officially announced a Technical Preview (aka ‘Beta’) of Office 2010 – so we are getting closer to the release date! It is a limited invitation program…
– Troy @ TLC
Oh My Eyes – Bad Diagram
Here is a slide from a recent show that just made me cringe (presentation was supplied, so I had no editing or design input).
It does show all of the important information. But it does not have a balanced/aligned layout. It is difficult to figure out the message, text is small, and it did not animate to help show the flow. And it was a background slide for over 5 minutes…
– Troy @ TLC
Zero-Day Exploit Patch for PowerPoint
Tuesday Microsoft closed a critical PowerPoint hole that that has been under attack since last month, which seems to have been directed at corporate computers to gain access to data. It did not affect PowerPoint 2007, but the patch is for PowerPoint 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, the PowerPoint Viewer, Office Compatibility Pack and Works. No Mac patch yet.
How big a deal was this? It was only the fourth time in the past 4 years that Microsoft has released just one security bulletin. To patch your computer, Run Windows Update (or you can wait for it to be part of an upcoming Automatic Update).
– Troy @ TLC
Office 2007 SP2 Released Today
If you are using PowerPoint 2007, or any Office ’07 apps, I highly reccomend checking for Office Updates and installing the just released SP2. It has been a while in the making (announced back in October) and while PowerPoint sees some bugs resolved other applications see features added.
– Troy @ TLC
One of Our Top Clients Makes the Top of ‘What People Earn’ List!
In Los Angeles this week preparing presentations for one of our larger clients, who just this past week was listed as the top earning woman of the year!
Serious – Lori and I are working for Mattel Toys preparing presentations and this really was in the L.A. times. And her (Barbie) presentations not a list of boring bullet points!
– Troy @ TLC
Type a Trademark
If you need to add a Trade mark to your text the common solution is to:
– Go to INSERT
– GO to SYMBOL
– Go to NORMAL TEXT and hunt for the trademark symbol
But there is a an easy and quick way that never has your fingers leave the keyboard. Just type “(TM)”. Done.
– Troy @ TLC
PPT Art – Captain Jack Sparrow
How is this PowerPoint art?
When it is created in PowerPoint with hundreds of autoshapes! Just the mustache is made up of what looks to be over 200 autoshapes (I stopped counting after 75)!
This incredible work by the UK’s Colin Neal can be downloaded from the PowerPointHeaven site. Look for the entry called “Captain Jack Sparrow.” Click here.
– Troy @ TLC
Who is Watson and Why is He Important to Microsoft?
In this case Dr. Watson is a debugger for Microsoft, not Sherlock Holmes assistant.
If Dr. Watson is running and a Windows application crashes, such as PowerPoint, it creates a report with technical information that Microsoft developers use to determine what caused the crash. The key is sending the data, which I have been promised is anonymous, to Microsoft.
After spending a few days with the PowerPoint developers at Microsoft last week, like it or not, Watson reports play a HUGE factor in what gets fixed, or updated. So submit those Watson reports whenever possible – they make a difference.
– Troy @ TLC
Use PPT for Other Projects
I develop a lot of multimedia CDROM’s and these projects always begin with PowerPoint. After gathering details from client I create a mock-up of the various navigation points within the application. Then in PowerPoint make a flow diagram of what the user experience will be. This allows client to visually see my interpretation of their information before I dive into the actual programming.
– Troy @ TLC