A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #61 – PowerPoint Shortcuts – Here’s What We Found.
Join a great conversation with Troy, Sandra and Nolan sharing “PowerPoint Shortcuts”, including keyboard shortcuts, right-click tricks, app setup, faster design, better presenting and anything else that helps us get more done quicker, better or professionally.
NXPowerlite is a great app that TLC Creative Services has made use of for several years. The current version, Desktop 8, was the biggest release for new features. I was happily asked to contribute input and ideas as the Neuxpower team was busy strategizing the big release. On a recent Neuxpower blog they talked about the Custom Profiles and to my surprise, I was a part of the blog!
Check out the blog post here.
Troy @ TLC
Welcome to Fall (Sunday, September 23) and the annual presentation industry gathering (The Presentation Summit, September 23-26 in San Diego, CA)! The PowerPoint Blog is having fun just highlighting 2018 design projects throughout this month.
At the end of the month Lori and I will be at The Presentation Summit. Please stop us and say hello!
Troy @ TLC
The ability to turn a Windows 10 computers into a WiFi hotspot by sharing its internet connection, either wired or wireless!, is an amazingly useful feature. It requires some advance setup, then it is always available.
Go to WINDOWS & SETTINGS
Select NETWORK & INTERNET
On the left select MOBILE HOTSPOT
TURN ON, confirm Wi-Fi (not Bluetooth) is selected, and click EDIT
In the Network Info and add a NETWORK NAME (anything you want; Troys WiFi, Secret WiFi Do Not Connect, etc.) and a PASSWORD (something unique, you may share it with others)
Now the computer is ready to share its internet connection! Click the NOTIFICATIONS icon in the lower right and select MOBILE HOTSPOT
Now on any device (Windows, Mac, phone, tablet, etc.) look for you WiFi SSD and connect!
Troy @ TLC
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast is available today! Listen to episode #60 – Do You ARS? (with John Cosgrove of VoiceHive and Ben Anderson).
Audience Response System, or A-R-S, is a great process of involving an audience in a presentation. It is a way for a presenter, a meeting, or even a classroom to get real-time input from the audience, and display everyone’s answers. For our conversation about ARS we are joined by John Cosgrove of VoiceHive and Ben Andersson as meeting ARS specialist. We talk about software we use, ways we added audience interaction, and ideas for presenters to integrate audience interaction into a presentation.
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #59 – What is Round-Tripping Video?
Video round-tripping in PowerPoint is like the movie inception, where we figure out everything is a dream, inside of a dream, that is possibly inside of another dream… this is creating content in PowerPoint, that is exported to video, and then that video become part of the PowerPoint content, or a slide with a video of PowerPoint content with other PowerPoint content. It is crazy stuff you can do with PowerPoint, and Troy, Sandy and Nolan have a great design studio conversation all about it!
New Old Stock aggregates and displays images from Flickr with most (if not all) images being under the Creative Commons License (author assumes). Author also creates photo packs that are for sale. The images are amazing, and sometimes exactly what is needed for a presentation! The downside is the search options, whicr are very limited (and frustrating).
You can download the image by clicking on it, and it will open the image in a lightbox the image can be saved with a right-click. Tip: the title of the image on the main page is a link to the original Flickr library where the image was posted.
There is a search option in the upper left which is helpful since there are no categories or any other organization. It’s not clear on how often a new image is posted.
Here is a sample of some of the images available:
Pexels features free, high quality images, all licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). They say 3,000+ new images are added each month, and the image library exceeds 40,000. Images are sourced from their community of photographers and other sources such as Pixabay, Gratisography, Little Visuals and more.
Browse collection by what’s trending, or search something specific. Click on an image you wish to download, and Pexels will give you a variety of size options to choose from. You can resize directly within the site as well!
There is a lot of great content and the site credits all photographers, even providing an option to donate to photographers you use and like so they can continue to make content. Here is a sample of some of the images available:
StockSnap (originally reviewed March 23, 2018) is a royalty free stock photography site that is worth bookmarking for presentation design. All images on the website are FREE and do not require attribution, both great things for presentation designers to hear! Photographers choose to share their work with StockSnap and release them under Creative Commons, so they can be used for personal and commercial use. There is a variety of imagery, with categories from business to nature.
Select an image and all the vital information regarding the photo is available; photographer, dimensions, size and relevant tags.
When searching images, the site will advertise some images with watermarks. These, and “sponsored images,” are from outside websites that are not included in the free StockSnap library. If your project needs a good, free, image resource, this is a perfect option to have available.
Here is a sample of some of the images available:
Troy @ TLC
What makes unsplash (originally reviewed June 21, 2017) different from other image sites is that it does not actually own the images, but it does host the images for download. Unsplash is a community with photographers submitting images, all of which must meet the Unsplash criteria (quality, licensing, file size, free). It was founded in 2013 and is based in Montreal, Canada.
On the quality side, one of the requirements is that photos are at least 3MB and 2048 by 1536 pixels in size – which is great for presentation use! The licensing is near perfect. This is just the first paragraph of the Unsplash License: “All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.”
I will not be giving up our subscription to Adobe Stock or Getty, but we have added Unsplash to our list of resources. Tip: After selecting a collection or doing a search, click the small grid layout icon to see images in a more friendly grid layout.
To download:
Here is a sample of some of the images available:
Troy @ TLC
