Erase Personal Information From Presentation
“The creation date, time and author show up on the document properties of the PowerPoint presentation.” (for the curious, you can read the full story here).
Have you ever been concerned with too much information being included in your presentation? Maybe even information that is not on a slide, but buried in a link or the file properties… I have for years tried to keep my clients out of trouble by removing often removing their personal information, or sometimes the TLC Creative Services information from the file properties.
My tool for doing this – the Shyam’s Toolbox add-in.
Just go to TOOLBOX >> OBJECTS >> ERASE PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM PRESENTATION
No the file properties are clear – no time stamp, no amount record of hours worked, etc.
It is just one of the many tools in the add-in package, which runs approximately $50 – but it can be worth it as the above story points out!
– Troy @ TLC
PowerPoint For Peace
We often forget as individuals we can do a lot to make this world a better place and spend time waiting for the change to happen. Here is an initiative to prove it to ourselves that we can do as much as anyone to promote peace.
Glenna Shaw and Geetesh Bajaj, both PowerPoint MVPs have started a unique initiative “PowerPoint for Peace”, a Global Community Project. The project just last week and is building a universal presentation that recognizes the contributions and commitments of people from around the World to improve the planet and the lives of our fellow inhabitants.
authorSTREAM.com is being used as a platform and participating is very easy. Just create a single slide that depicts a contribution that helps make the World a better place to live in (must contain your name/group/company and be uploaded using the authorSTREAM link).
See it and participate here.
– Troy @ TLC
XOBNI is Great!
If you are an Outlook user like me for email (my 12 year old daughter has no use for email that is not web-based on accessible from any connection or phone). I think this is a must have tool, and I am in good company as Mr. Bill Gates recently extolled its usefullness!
Xobni is “inbox” spelled backwards. It runs along side Outlook, without touching any of its files (very important to me) and is viewed in a new column. It adds information about who is emailing you, how to contact them, who you have mutually emailed, threaded conversations and more.
By far my favorite feature is the ‘Files Exchanged’ area that shows all of the attachments that person has sent me – which means no more hunting through old emails for that logo!
It is FREE and works! Look at it here.
– Troy @ TLC
Day At Disney (Offices)
I am working on a multimedia CDROM for a division of Disney and had to spend the day at their corporate offices on one of their internal computers to get the needed screen captures for an interactive tutorial. Kind of a fun place to work with signage like this everywhere:
And much to my daughters dismay I was not able to get in to the sound stage in the next building where they are filming High School Musical 3…
– Troy @ TLC
Bad Error Message From Motorola
So, if your cell phone displays this error message:
It is time for a new phone! Last week while traveling my phone ‘turned on’ with this message and there was nothing I could do to get it to function. Of course my cell phone is also my modem while traveling so no internet access!
Back at the office Friday I did a bit of online research (was going through internet access withdrawls) and quickly found out I am not the only Motorola user to have this error message and that in 100% cases the phone is dead. New phone arrives tomorrow – just in time for my next trip.
– Troy @ TLC
Microsoft’s New Fonts
With Vista Microsoft released some new font, each designed to replace an existing font. The new fonts are designed for onscreen legibility and scaling. Here is what they are and what they replace:
Cambria = Georga and Times New Roman
Calibri = Arial
Candara = Trebuchet MS and Helvetica
Consolas = Lucidia Console and Courier New
Constantia = Georga and Palatino
Corbel = Verdana
– Troy @ TLC
Some Presentations Should Come with Warning Signs
While vacationing with my family recently we spent the day at Sea World. They have added a number of Sesame Street themed attractions which were very fun. The Elmo 4D movie was great!
Now Sesame Street is obviously geared to young children. So the first line of this warning seemed a bit out of place:
Wouldn’t it be great if presentations came with a warning sign that told you the content may not be what you think it is…. just a thought.
– Troy @ TLC