One of the greatest things about the 2003 PowerPoint Viewer is that it does not require administrative rights to install. As a matter a fact, it does not need to be installed at all. It can run from the computer or from a CDROM, USB drive, etc. But it is important to know that on the first use of it on a computer its splash screen, which shows the official EULA, will show up.
– Troy @ TLC
Here is a humorous little cartoon about “The PowerPoint Fairy” (and it may answer a few questions about unprepared presenters – the PowerPoint Fairy didn’t visit them before to the meeting).
Click here to view (sorry for the link, but respecting the website’s do-not-copy-my-images policy).
– Troy @ TLC
Thanks to PPTMVP for finding this humorous YouTube video. The first part is a very creative (and simple) PowerPoint presentation – last part I could have done without…
For some quick entertainment check it out here.
– Troy @ TLC
My neighbor (we live in the same town of 93,000 people) and fellow cyclist (he may ride a bit more than me), Floyd Landis rolled out key elements of his defense against doping charges in an online presentation Thursday, several months before the cyclist is to present his case to an arbitration panel in hopes of keeping his Tour de France title.
Early Thursday, Landis posted a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Arnie Baker, a retired doctor and longtime coach and adviser, as well as several hundred pages of documents related to the charges on his Web site, www.floydlandis.com (links to box.net, use PublicAccess/PublicAccess to login and download).
Many thanks to PPT MVP Glenna Shaw for letting me know about the neighborhood news.
– Troy @ TLC
After awhile you most likely just look through your list of applications for an icon vs. the name. So get ready to learn some new sights. Here are new application icons of Office 2007.
– Troy @ TLC
Mike Wilson from Instant Effects has a great article that posted at Indezine last week. I have worked a lot with Mike and his developers over the past few years as OfficeFX has evolved. Even better is knowing he has spent time out of office and backstage at large corporate events to really see what the presentations need to do and how they are used.
This is a long article, so have a few minutes, but it captures a lot of the enviroment, equipment considerations and requests I work with every day. View it here.
– Troy @ TLC
Just ran across this link in some old notes. I found this little movie over a year ago – made me laugh then and it makes me laugh now! Check out the “Low Moral Presentation” here.
-Troy @ TLC
Just this week CNET has posted a very good review of PowerPoint 2007. It is in a quick read format that is comprised of 12 topics, each with a screen capture and few paragraph description.
Take a few minutes and click through this informative overview here.
– Troy @ TLC
Reading the latest edition of PC World I came across a quote that had me rolling in laughter. Peter Norvig (an executive at Google) said, “Powerpoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table. You can do very bad things with it.”
Funny – and true. It is not a bad program as Mr. Tufte says. But it can be used very poorly. So I went online and found a few more good quotes:
“PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software: it gets no respect.”
– Ken Goldberg, the Berkeley engineering professor
“If you like overheads, you’ll love PowerPoint.”
– Edward Tufte
Hmmm… maybe some things to ponder today…
-Troy @ TLC