Dr. Hans Rosling is one of my presentation heroes; he's been featured or mentioned in all my books and several times on presentationzen.com over the years. If there is a Jedi Master of presenting data clearly, visually, and simply, then it is Hans. He proves time and time again, that data are not dull—and when you are trying to change the world, there is no excuse for boring presentations. Most people are aware of Dr. Rosling through his popular TED Talks, but just in case you've never seen him present, below is a nice 5-minute piece he did on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. At TED.com you'll…
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Hans Rosling: The Jedi Master of data visualization
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Creative Like a Fox! Dan Roam and I Compare Notes on Creative Process
Duarte Blog3 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amDan Roam schools me on creative process. His new book, BLAH BLAH BLAH, offers awesome tips on how to utilize visual and verbal concepts to refine ideas to their most pure state. -
Using Flash Fiction in Presentations
Ethos3 - A Presentation Design Agency8 Feb 2012 | 12:08 pmThere are billions of ways to tell a story and millions of avenues with which to tell it. Storytelling has been around as long as humans have, and for good reason. Storytelling is the most effective way to get a point across. People live for stories. People are passionate about stories. Movies, books, television, magazines– nearly all media– is designed with a story in mind. The story is what hooks the audience; the story is what keeps them reading, listening, wanting more. Of course, as times change, so do stories and the ways we communicate those stories. Technology has revolutionized… -
Pick your battles when pitching
Sticky Slides8 Feb 2012 | 7:30 pmArguing until the bitter end about small facts, when the VC thinks she right because she has a reliable source (in her opinion) is not a good idea. You might be right, BUT you will not convince her, you will do no good to your credibility, and you raise doubts about how the future CEO-Board Member relationship is going to pan out. Better focus that energy in disagreements that are really worth arguing about. Pick your battles. -
Insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide
PowerPoint Tips Blog6 Feb 2012 | 6:54 pmYou can insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide so that you can use Excel while in Slide Show view. There are other ways to get Excel data onto a slide, so why would you want an active Excel spreadsheet? Let’s say that you’re presenting some results of your financial analysis and your boss asks, “How did you get those results? Show me the spreadsheet.” You could switch to Excel, but it might be more slick to have it available in your PowerPoint presentation. Slick? What does that mean? It just means that the process is less disruptive and more continuous, so it…
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Presentation Zen
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Hans Rosling: The Jedi Master of data visualization
26 Jan 2012 | 11:31 pmDr. Hans Rosling is one of my presentation heroes; he's been featured or mentioned in all my books and several times on presentationzen.com over the years. If there is a Jedi Master of presenting data clearly, visually, and simply, then it is Hans. He proves time and time again, that data are not dull—and when you are trying to change the world, there is no excuse for boring presentations. Most people are aware of Dr. Rosling through his popular TED Talks, but just in case you've never seen him present, below is a nice 5-minute piece he did on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. At TED.com you'll… -
New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition)
18 Jan 2012 | 10:36 pmFour years ago my first book Presentation Zen was published by Peachpit Press. Since then I wrote two other presentation books and a sketchbook/storyboard book and a DVD (plus an additional DVD/Book just for Japan). Although a lot of time had passed, I was still happy with the original Presentation Zen. And yet, the original Presentation Zen book could benefit from a little freshening up in the form of a 2nd edition for 2012. This 2nd edition of Presentation Zen has the same look and feel as the original book and I still did all the design and layout myself. The biggest difference is the book… -
10 great books to help you think, create, & communicate better in 2012
10 Jan 2012 | 4:54 amIn the spirit of personal kaizen, I have listed below a few books that I read (or reread) over the past year that you may want to read as part of your own continuous improvement journey. (Clicking on the book's icon takes you to Amazon.com.) (1) Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long. Over the last 10-20 years scientists have made many remarkable discoveries concerning the brain and how it works. David Rock is not a neuroscientist but he is a good "neurotranslator" of the scientific evidence and does a good job of… -
Progress and the intentional selection of less
30 Dec 2011 | 5:26 pmMany people today talk about presentation technology as if it were a panacea for boring lectures and ineffective presentations. Technologies such as our laptops, iPads, and cool software packages are wonderful tools that can, when used well, increase the quality of communication and engagement. This is especially true when we need to engage with people live on the other side of the planet via tools like video conferencing, webinars, Skype, and so on. However, while technology has evolved in dramatic ways over the last generation, our deep human need for visceral connections, and personal… -
Steve Jobs: "People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint"
20 Dec 2011 | 5:12 amOne thing we need to constantly remind ourselves is that slides and other forms of projected visualization—no matter how "cool" they may be—are not appropriate for every context. Multimedia is great for presentations before large groups such as keynote addresses or conference presentations, but in meetings where you want to actively discuss issues or go over details in depth, slides—especially the snooze-inducing bulletpoint variety, which are never a good idea—are almost always counter productive. I stressed early on in the first version of Presentation Zen four years ago—and ad…
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Duarte Blog
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Creative Like a Fox! Dan Roam and I Compare Notes on Creative Process
3 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amDan Roam schools me on creative process. His new book, BLAH BLAH BLAH, offers awesome tips on how to utilize visual and verbal concepts to refine ideas to their most pure state. -
Are You a Fox or a Hummingbird? Dan Roam Explains Your Brain
2 Feb 2012 | 6:27 amDan Roam uses an animalistic metaphor to explain how your brain processes information, and reveals how to help facilitate communication between our verbal and visual minds. That and more in his new book, BLAH BLAH BLAH. -
Grammar Ain’t Just for Words Anymore
1 Feb 2012 | 8:58 amDan Roam used the rules of verbal grammar to build a Visual Grammar Graph that bridges the gap between verbal and visual concepts. Vivid Grammar is featured in his new book, BLAH BLAH BLAH. -
Quit Talking and Start Thinking
31 Jan 2012 | 4:03 pmDan Roam explains why we talk too much, and how we can use our predilection for vision to become better problem solvers. “Vivid Thinking” is one of the many gems in his new book, BLAH BLAH BLAH. -
Obama’s SOTU: What Is, and What Could Have Been
25 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pmLast night President Barack Obama delivered what could be considered the biggest presentation of the year. In outlining his vision for America and his legislative priorities for 2012, the President attempted to persuade a variety of different audiences – including the United States Congress, business leaders and 25 million members of the American public – that he has a plan to continue improving the lives of Americans. So how did he do? Leaving aside the merit of his proposals, did he tell a story compelling enough to convince such a broad audience? Graphic recording of the State of the…
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Ethos3 - A Presentation Design Agency
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Using Flash Fiction in Presentations
8 Feb 2012 | 12:08 pmThere are billions of ways to tell a story and millions of avenues with which to tell it. Storytelling has been around as long as humans have, and for good reason. Storytelling is the most effective way to get a point across. People live for stories. People are passionate about stories. Movies, books, television, magazines– nearly all media– is designed with a story in mind. The story is what hooks the audience; the story is what keeps them reading, listening, wanting more. Of course, as times change, so do stories and the ways we communicate those stories. Technology has revolutionized… -
How to Simplify Your Presentation
7 Feb 2012 | 3:03 pmYou’re staring at a fistful of slides from your upcoming presentation for the hundredth time and it hits you like a ton of bricks: all of this is much too complicated. You suddenly realize that your presentation sounds like every day of high school Calculus when your teacher may as well have been lecturing in Latin. It doesn’t make sense because it’s too complicated. You start having a mild panic attack… Relax. It’s going to be okay. A few small adjustments can save your presentation. First, find the crux of your idea. What are you trying to prove? What point are you trying to… -
How to Boost Creativity
6 Feb 2012 | 9:00 amIn a perfect world, the dreaded Monday after the Super Bowl would be a national holiday. We’d all get to sleep in and sleep off our beer and spinach artichoke dip hangover. Instead, most of us are dutifully sitting at our desks by 9 AM. No rest for the weary. On days like these, creativity is a vague, forgotten notion that most of us will wait to employ until the late afternoon, or maybe… tomorrow. So here are some tips on how to boost your creativity, whether that be on days where your mind is particularly hazy, or when you feel stuck, waiting for the metaphorical lightbulb to go… -
Dance vs. PowerPoint: A Modest Proposal
3 Feb 2012 | 8:45 amJohn Bohannon has a modest proposal. In his TEDxBrussels talk from November 2011, he asserts that “bad PowerPoint presentations are a serious threat to the global economy.” Touché, Mr. Bohannon. You’re speaking our language already. He claims bad PowerPoint presentations drain the global economy of $250 million per day and add up to an annual deficit of $1 billion a year. While we can’t speak to the truthiness of either of those claims, we can empathize with Bohannon. Bad presentations waste time and wasting time wastes money. Bad news all around. Bohannon’s modest proposal is to… -
Hot for Teacher
1 Feb 2012 | 8:13 amWhenever you have to do something, it’s usually preferable to do the sexy version of something. Who wants to change clothes and climb a ladder to clean gutters when you could just as easily change into that razor sharp dress shirt you got for Christmas and walk up the street for an afternoon cocktail? Who wants to sit down to eat your mom’s cheeseburger casserole if there was an option for surf and turf to be had? It seems that for every option life throws us there is a sexy version and an entirely un-sexy one to compare it to. When it comes to presentations, this rule also…
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Sticky Slides
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Pick your battles when pitching
8 Feb 2012 | 7:30 pmArguing until the bitter end about small facts, when the VC thinks she right because she has a reliable source (in her opinion) is not a good idea. You might be right, BUT you will not convince her, you will do no good to your credibility, and you raise doubts about how the future CEO-Board Member relationship is going to pan out. Better focus that energy in disagreements that are really worth arguing about. Pick your battles. -
Write notes after the meeting
7 Feb 2012 | 7:30 pmIf you are reviewing your presentation with your boss, here is a thought. Write down your notes immediately after the meeting. It makes for a better 2-way conversation as you are not scribbling all the time looking down on a piece of paper, and strangely it makes you remember things better. This article in Wired explains how your brain is refreshing the memory that is only slightly faded, that process makes future recollection stronger: Along these lines, Bjork also recommends taking notes just after class, rather than during — forcing yourself to recall a lecture’s information is more… -
Video summary in stills
6 Feb 2012 | 7:30 pmEmbedding video in presentations has its drawbacks. It adds another technical risk factor when setting up the presentation outside your office environment. File sizes become so big that it is hard to email a document. And a PDF version of the presentation does not show the video. As a solution, you can put in a video summary in your presentation consisting of a few key still images taken from the video. Our brain is powerful enough to make up most of what happens in between, and might even imagine the Star Wars sound track in the background when looking at last year’s Volkswagen Super Bowl… -
No need to show that monitor
5 Feb 2012 | 7:30 pmIn technical pitch presentations, you often have to show the application through screen shots. While a picture of the application inside a monitor frame might look nice, it is a poor way to get your audience to see the content of the screen. I would cut the monitor, cut the window bars above and below your application, and even zoom in to parts of the screen to highlight what is important. Cover everything that is not relevant (ads for example) with white boxes to keep things clean. Having said that, there might be 2 uses for the monitor shot. One for a very quick 5-second slide that enables… -
Not reality, not a cartoon
2 Feb 2012 | 7:30 pmHave a look at these great images (on Fubiz) in the series “Enlightened Souls” by French photographer Fabrice Wittner. He uses images of people with a stencil-like effect and puts them on a background of a real photo. This effect might be very useful in presentation design. It is very hard to a series of images with a consistent look and feel on either stock photo sites, or Flickr. Moreover, I find that using images with real people not working very well in slides. It is too personal. This slight distortion of the characters might just solve these 2 problems in one go.
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PowerPoint Tips Blog
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Insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide
6 Feb 2012 | 6:54 pmYou can insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide so that you can use Excel while in Slide Show view. There are other ways to get Excel data onto a slide, so why would you want an active Excel spreadsheet? Let’s say that you’re presenting some results of your financial analysis and your boss asks, “How did you get those results? Show me the spreadsheet.” You could switch to Excel, but it might be more slick to have it available in your PowerPoint presentation. Slick? What does that mean? It just means that the process is less disruptive and more continuous, so it… -
Why both stories and a storyline are important for your presentations
29 Jan 2012 | 11:43 amA lot of people are talking about telling stories during a presentation. Why is that? Stories are A powerful way to evoke emotions, which is important because people remember emotionally-charged experiences better and longer An age-old way of making a topic interesting, so the audience pays more attention An alternate way to make your point, helping people to understand better Here’s a related post from Garr Reynolds, “We learn from stories and experiences.” I majored in History in college and one of the few things I remember from all my History courses is a story about Czar… -
Get the best price on technology purchases, clothing — and anything else!
17 Jan 2012 | 11:50 amDo you buy electronics and more on Amazon, Newegg, or other sites? If so, I’d like to introduce you to a new, free service that will help you get the lowest price. Many people don’t realize that prices fluctuate constantly, particularly on websites like Amazon, which allow third party vendors to continually undercut one another. For example, consider the price variations for a Samsung 59-Inch 1080p 3D Plasma HDTV over three months (Jul 10 to Oct 10, 2011): $1,850, 2,251, 1,920, 2,000, 2,251, 2,145, 2,218, 2,225, 2,145, 2,200 You could have spent as much as $2,251 — or as little as… -
A quick way to design better photo slides–the 3-side rule
16 Jan 2012 | 5:46 pmHere’s a quick way to improve the design of slides that include some text and a photo. This type of slide is very common. But it doesn’t look very striking. Here’s the principle: Make the photo touch 3 sides of the slide. When you do this, your slide will look bolder and clearer. The impact will increase. And it will simply look better. There are 3 ways to make this photo touch at least 3 sides of the slide: 1. A vertical image covering 1/2 of the slide 2. A horizontal image covering most of the slide 3. A horizontal image covering the entire slide Try making over your… -
Create cool, Zen-style PowerPoint backgrounds with Background Styles
10 Jan 2012 | 12:57 pmPowerPoint 2007 introduced background styles, which are solid or subtle gradient backgrounds based on some of the colors in your theme colors. They can create a cool, Zen-style look. You can use them alone, or in conjunction with your theme. Use background styles on their own Open PowerPoint 2007 or 2010 and you’ll see the default theme, which uses the default Office theme colors. Click the Design tab and choose Background Styles to see the options. Now, click the Colors button to expand the list of colors. You’ll see that the Built-In Office set of theme colors is highlighted.
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PowerPoint Tip: Don’t start your presentation with credits
7 Feb 2012 | 7:08 amLast week in a coaching session a client asked, “What is the best way to start my presentation?” She said that she had tried different methods and didn’t feel that they were working as well as she wanted. This question reminded me of what Nick Morgan said in his keynote presentation at the Presentation Summit last fall. In this article I want to talk about how to start your presentation, building off of what Nick suggested in his talk. How do most movies and TV shows start today? As Nick pointed out, it is much different than 15 years ago. In the past, a movie started out with the… -
PowerPoint Tip: Boring presentations are not the problem
24 Jan 2012 | 10:48 amHow many times have you heard that the problem with many PowerPoint presentations is that they are boring? This is a common refrain from the media and it used to justify why presentations should not use PowerPoint, or use some other hot presentation tool instead of PowerPoint. I heartily disagree that most business presentations are boring. The problem with most presentations is not that they are boring, it is that they are confusing. In today’s article I want to explain the difference and what we can do about the problem. A boring presentation is one that has no useful information for the… -
PowerPoint Tip: Effective dashboard slides
10 Jan 2012 | 4:55 amAt the start of the year many organizations are looking back to see how they did last year. They will use many different measures, and they may decide that they want to start tracking certain statistics that will make a difference in improving performance going forward. A common approach is to create one or more dashboard slides that give executives a quick snapshot of how the organization is performing. In this article I want to share some tips on creating effective dashboard slides. The term dashboard comes from vehicle dashboards that use indicators to show the status of such metrics as… -
Apply John Bohannon’s proposal to your organization
3 Jan 2012 | 6:50 pmRecently, John Bohannon presented a TED talk in Brussels that proposed replacing PowerPoint with dancers. The video has had over 330,000 views in less than two months and the idea has once again started people talking about how to improve presentations. In his presentation, John quotes a calculation from an article I published a few years ago to illustrate how much poor PowerPoint presentations are costing organizations. He compares the enormous amount wasted by poor presentations with the cost of funding arts programs in the US, and suggests that cutting arts programs would not help the… -
PowerPoint Tip: Spreadsheets don't belong on slides
20 Dec 2011 | 6:28 amFrequently people tell me that financial presentations include a huge spreadsheet that has been copied on to a slide. The text and numbers are way too small and inevitably the presenter says, “I know you can’t read this, so I’ll read it to you.” Spreadsheets don’t belong on slides. Today I want to talk about why not and what you can do instead.Why don’t spreadsheets belong on slides? Because a spreadsheet is an analytical tool, not a communication tool. We use spreadsheets because they are the best tool for analyzing numbers, doing calculations and comparing numerical information.
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Speak Schmeak
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Are you giving the audience tools they can use?
7 Feb 2012 | 1:28 pmOne of the things I find lacking in many presentations is the useful take-home tool. Sure, I hear lots of good ideas from speakers, but I don't often go home with action steps rather than concepts. I don't often go home with concrete things I can DO to improve my business, my presentations or my life. That's why I enjoyed Jason Womack's presentation so much last week, based on his book Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More. First, I'll share my thoughts on why Jason's presentation was effective from a public speaking perspective. I can be a bit jaded when I watch… -
12for12 February Challenge: Be present
3 Feb 2012 | 12:29 pmHave you joined my 12 Speaking Challenges for 2012 program yet? Build your "confidence muscles" with monthly challenges designed to help you get out of your comfort zone and build confidence in a variety of settings that will prepare you for your upcoming speaking engagements! Each month, there will be several levels to the challenge, so you can tailor the challenge to your own level of comfort. But remember, this is all about getting out of your comfort zone. So if the Level 1 challenge seems difficult, but you accomplish it, then move onto the next level. You have a whole month to practice! -
Don't say "you" when you mean "I"
3 Feb 2012 | 8:00 amIn this interview with Ellen Degeneres, Seal talks about his separation from his wife, Heidi Klum. Notice his use of second person ("you") narrative in telling his story in this clip, rather than the more appropriate first person ("I"). Here are a couple of quotes: "You go into these things with the greatest intentions." "When you say 'I do,' when you say, 'Till death do us part,' those vows hold value, they're not just words." "You just grow apart after awhile. I mean, you try and you work through it, and the thing that you quickly realize when you're married and you become a parent, is that… -
Too hot, too cold, or just right?
31 Jan 2012 | 10:35 amI recently attended a conference with my husband, and in comparing notes afterward about the sessions we had attended, I realized we had a case of the Goldilocks. (If you don't know the story, here's a brief version similar to the one I grew up with.) One session featured a speaker who was bold and colorful. She swore, she used provocative images, she told stories and she challenged us to think differently. I would have enjoyed this presentation had she not been trying SO hard to engage us emotionally. She was trying so hard to be a rebel, to be cool and hip and shocking, that it actually… -
How is a speaker like a cinnamon roll cake?
27 Jan 2012 | 11:11 amKathy Shields' cinnamon roll cake at Savoy Cafe Yesterday I met a friend for an afternoon treat at one of my favorite Santa Barbara eateries: Savoy Cafe and Deli. Hubby and I have known the owners, Paul and Kathy Shields, for many years, and we love to support our friends and local businesses. (Stay tuned, by the way, for an episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, where you'll see me and my husband eating a meal at Savoy on camera!) As I stepped up to the counter, Kathy saw me and invited me into the kitchen to show me her fresh-from-the-oven cinnamon roll cake. We chatted for a bit as she…
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PowerPoint and Presenting Blog
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Learn PowerPoint 2010: Guidelines on Changing Proofing Language for an Entire Presentation
8 Feb 2012 | 7:45 pmWhile it is easy to change proofing language for selected text containers, that happens to be a piece meal approach and can be a great time waster if you need the language changed across all content in 100 or more slides! There are two ways to set the proofing language for your entire presentation -- and you can use one or both of these approaches. Make sure you have the proofing tools installed for all or any of the languages that you need to work within PowerPoint. Then follow these steps.Learn how to set proofing language for an entire presentation in PowerPoint 2010.Categories:… -
iPad Presenting 07: Wired iPad to VGA with the Apple Digital AV Adapter
7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 pmSo much about presenting with an iPad depends upon how you can send the visual signals from your iPad to the projector or television outputs. We have already established that the wireless way of connecting the iPad to an output is far superior since it lets you hold the iPad in your hand and control your slides wirelessly – that way you are free to move around in your presentation venue – more often than not this approach requires an in-between device such as an Apple TV 2.What we have not discussed so far is how you can use a wired option that lets you cable your iPad directly to an… -
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Curved and Straight Line Segments
7 Feb 2012 | 7:30 pmA line (outline) in PowerPoint contains both points and segments. You already learned about the three types of points in PowerPoint 2011 in a previous tutorial. Now we are going to show you how to work with segments, the lines that connect one point and another. There are two types of segments: straight and curved. You can edit these segments and also convert a straight segment to a curved segment and vice versa, as you will learn in this tutorial.Learn about Curved and Straight line segments in PowerPoint 2011.Categories: office_mac, powerpoint_2011, shapes, tutorials -
Indezine News Released
6 Feb 2012 | 8:00 pmMany of my clients, friends, and readers (including you) are super busy these days! And in between these busy days, you need to create slides, practice them, and deliver them to an audience. Very often, your work does not end there -- you then need to remove any extra meta-information from these presentation slides and mail it to clients and colleagues. Of course, you may have to do this so often for the multiple presentations you need to deliver -- and presenting may be just one of the tasks you do in your job role!Read more in this issue of Indezine News.Categories: ezine, powerpoint -
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Setting Proofing Language for Text
6 Feb 2012 | 7:45 pmDo you have a presentation that contains text that needs to be spell-checked in more than one language? Or do you and your client or colleague work with different localized versions of Microsoft PowerPoint? It may be that you use English (US) and color is a perfectly valid spelling -- but someone else in another part of the world uses English (UK) and their spell checker suggest that the word color be changed to colour. Or if they use the French version of PowerPoint, then both spellings of color/colour would be flagged as incorrect -- they use the term couleur. You first need to have the…
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ToggleLink: evidenziare, selezionare e copiare rapidamente la parte testuale dei link
8 Feb 2012 | 3:30 pmCopiare il testo relativo ad uno o più eventuali collegamenti presenti in una data pagina web può risultare una procedura particolarmente fastidiosa considerando che, per far ciò, sarà necessario, innanzitutto, posizionare il cursore all’inizio o alla fine del link e, successivamente, evidenziarlo facendo però attenzione che non venga effettuato alcun click accidentale causandone quindi l’apertura.Un’operazione di questo tipo può però essere eseguita in maniera ben più semplice e veloce ricorrendo all’utilizzo di una pratica risorsa quale ToggleLink: Select… -
Google lancia Chrome per device Android
8 Feb 2012 | 4:07 amUno tra i prodotti di maggior successo di Google è, senza alcun dubbio, Chrome, il suo browser web oramai usato da uno straordinario numero di utenti in sostituzione o in abbinamento a quelli che, sino a qualche tempo addietro, andavano a configurasi come i principali strumenti mediante cui navigare online.Tenendo conto di tale dato e cercando ai andare incontro a quelle che sono le esigenze dell’utenza rientrante nella sfera “mobile”, Google, nel corso delle ultime ore, ha reso disponibile una versione di Chrome per device Android, sia smartphone che tablet.Google Chrome per… -
Easy Reader, le notifiche di Google Reader direttamente a portata di Chrome ed in tempo reale
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 amColoro che si servono di Google Reader come strumento mediante cui restare sempre e comunque aggiornati circa tutte quelle che sono le ultime news d’interesse e che sono alla ricerca di un semplice ma efficace sistema mediante il quale tenerle costantemente sotto controllo allora, sicuramente, saranno più che felici di poter fare la conoscenza di Easy Reader.Ma di che cosa si tratta? Scopriamolo subito: Easy Reader è un’estensione specifica per Google Chrome che, dopo essere stata installata, notificherà, mediante un’apposita icona annessa, così come di consueto, accanto… -
Google, al lavoro sugli occhiali HUD per la realtà aumentata
8 Feb 2012 | 3:31 amSe ne parla già da qualche tempo in rete ma nel corso delle ultime ore le news concernenti gli occhiali HUD per la realtà aumentata che, a quanto pare, sarebbero in fase di sviluppo nei Labs di Google si sono fatte ben più insistenti ed ulteriormente interessanti.Stando infatti a quanto riportato da alcune fonti non ufficiali Google, in collaborazione con Motorola, avrebbe realizzato dei prototipi di un nuovo dispositivo che presentandosi come un comune paio di occhiali da sole offrirebbe tutta una serie di utili ed interessantissime funzionalità sino ad ora mai applicate a tale tipo di… -
Link Debrid, nuovo servizio italiano per generare link premium da tutti i principali servizi di hosting
8 Feb 2012 | 3:00 amLa chiusura di MegaUpload ha generato un’onda d’urto che ha avuto ripercussioni su diversi servizi di hosting fra i più popolari, qualcuno ha eliminato la possibilità di condividere file, altri hanno iniziato a fare piazza pulita degli account esistenti, mentre alcuni; quelli non proprio sulla cresta dell’onda; hanno approfittato di questo caos per raccattare utenti orfani dei loro cyberlocker preferiti.Questo significa che ci sono ancora molti servizi di hosting attivi e che, almeno per il momento, il download da questi canali non si è interrotto. Ecco il motivo per il…
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Andrea Beggi
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Importare Outlook Express in Outlook 2007 o 2010 su Windows 7
4 Feb 2012 | 11:53 amPuò capitare che qualche utente si decida a cambiare il suo computer antidiluviano con una macchina di questo secolo, il che pone il problema del trasferimento dei dati. Spesso queste cariatidi a spinta sono tanto vecchie che non supportano il “trasferimento guidato file e impostazioni”, il che comunque non sposterebbe il problema perché l’utente ha la posta su Outlook Express. (“Buongiorno, che programma usa per la posta?” – “Outlook” – “Sì: Outlook Express o Outlook e basta? C’è differenza.” –… -
I grandi misteri della vita
30 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pmTutti coloro che fanno il bucato sono vittime prima o poi del mistero dei calzini, apparentemente inghiottiti dalla lavatrice senza lasciare tracce. Ebbene, c’è un altra situazione analoga che capita negli ambienti dell’IT: i dadi da rack. Questi maledetti bulloni , dopo che vi hanno massacrato i polpastrelli mentre cercate di incastrarli nella loro sede, cadono e vengono inghiottiti da una struttura metallica completamente aperta, che durante il montaggio non ha pareti né fondo. Dove finiscano non è dato sapere: cadono con un “cling” e spariscono per sempre dalla… -
Verbatim SATA-II Solid State Drive
29 Jan 2012 | 1:35 pmLe parti in movimento all’interno di un computer sono poche ma sono quelle più frequentemente soggette a guasti e usura. Le ventole girano su cuscinetti che alla lunga si consumano, diventano rumorosi e diminuiscono l’efficienza del raffreddamento; i componenti surriscaldati diventano instabili e causano blocchi del sistema. I dischi fissi hanno una meccanica semplice ma sofisticata: uno o più piatti in velocissima rotazione e alcune minuscole testine che “volano” su di essi sfiorandoli su un cuscino d’aria. Quando le testine, a seguito di una forte… -
Adidas miCoach monitor frequenza cardiaca
23 Jan 2012 | 1:58 amUna delle prime cose di cui mi sono reso conto quando ho iniziato a correre è stata la necessità di capire e controllare le mie pulsazioni durante la corsa. Rimanere nella “zona” corretta permette di faticare meno, correre più a lungo e migliorare le prestazioni. Gli strumenti più semplici per farlo sono un cardiofrequenzimetro e le tabelle, che abbondano su internet. Ma la tecnologia ci aiuta a trovare soluzioni più articolate, complete e complesse. Ho avuto modo di provare per qualche settimana un monitor frequenza cardiaca Adidas miCoach, insieme alla sua applicazione… -
Un perché di Natale
24 Dec 2011 | 4:09 pmCaro Steve, ci osservi da lassù seduto su una iCloud controllando che tutto vada per il verso giusto. In occasione del Natale vorrei chiederti una cosa: So che eri un maledetto pignolo rompiballe e amavi curare ogni dettaglio dei tuoi prodotti con un puntiglio maniacale. Te lo aveva insegnato il tuo papà, che ti faceva verniciare bene i mobili sul retro anche se nessuno lo doveva vedere. E facevi i capricci per la lucidatura delle viti dentro i case dei tuoi computer, anche se nessuno li doveva aprire. Oppure i colori, che non ti andavano mai bene. Perdevi giorni su dettagli…
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Ecoblog.it
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Manifesto salva ciclisti dagli incidenti stradali
8 Feb 2012 | 10:09 amIl Manifesto salva ciclisti diffuso da associazioni e blog italiani è stato mutuato dal The Times che ha lanciato una massiccia campagna in difesa dell’incolumità dei ciclisti sulle strade. La testata inglese ha deciso di sostenere l’incolumità dei ciclisti dopo che la sua cronista Mary Bowers lo scorso novembre mentre era in bicicletta è stata investita da un camion ed è ancora in terapia intensiva. L’Italia, secondo i dati ANIA, è al terzo posto in Europa per mortalità di ciclisti e prima di noi solo Germania e Polonia. Gli otto punti che aiuterebbero i ciclisti a… -
Eni, emergenza gas:"Rassicuriamo tutti". Ma riaprono le centrali a olio combustibile
8 Feb 2012 | 8:44 amLa decisione di riavviare le centrali a olio combustibile (inquinantissime!) arriva dal Comitato per il monitoraggio e l’emergenza gas del ministero dello Sviluppo che come riporta il comunicato stampa emesso ieri, per far fronte al picco di consumi, 460milioni di metri cubi: in considerazione dell’eccezionale ondata di freddo, del connesso picco storico nei consumi di gas e del livello ridotto di forniture dalla Russia si è dunque stabilito di avviare la messa in esercizio di centrali elettriche ad olio combustibile, che consentiranno di contenere i consumi di gas a uso… -
Le piante parlano tra loro per avvisarsi del pericolo
8 Feb 2012 | 4:23 amCome comunicano le piante? Hanno cercato di scoprirlo o meglio di immortalare le piante parlanti i ricercatori della Exeter University. Studi ed osservazioni che hanno portato alla luce un linguaggio complesso ed affascinante, molto più elaborato di quanto ci si aspetti da dei vegetali. Ad esempio, si è scoperto e visto per la prima volta come le piante parlano tra loro per avvisarsi del pericolo imminente. Lo fanno rilasciando degli speciali gas che vengono captati ed interpretati come un segnale di pericolo dalle piante vicine. I ricercatori, coordinati dal professor Nick Smirnoff, sono… -
Specie asiatiche invasive, a rischio estinzione le coccinelle europee
8 Feb 2012 | 3:14 amLe coccinelle native della Gran Bretagna e degli altri Paesi europei (Adalia bipunctata) sono in rapido declino a causa della diffusione di una specie invasiva, la coccinella arlecchino, Harmonia axyridis, di origine asiatica. A lanciare l’allarme, confermando i timori sollevati dai biologi negli anni scorsi, è un recente studio pubblicato sulla rivista Diversity and Distributions, a cura di un’équipe internazionale coordinata da Helen Roy del Centre for Ecology and Hydrology di Wallingford, nell’Oxfordshire. Sette delle otto specie autoctone britanniche sono in declino ed… -
In Italia abbiamo il gas ma Tajani riapre il piagnisteo sul nucleare
7 Feb 2012 | 5:03 amIo non so che senso abbia rispolverare il piagnisteo sul nucleare: un referendum popolare abrogativo ne ha sancito l’uscita lo scorso giugno. Ma Antonio Tajani vicepresidente della Commissione europea e responsabile per la politica industriale, sembra non farsene una ragione e con la gran cassa de Il Sole24ore sempre probo a questo genere di informazione ci dice: Sul problema dell’approvvigionamento del gas all’Italia bisogna dire la verità senza fare dell’allarmismo, ma mi sembra che ora sulla scelta del nucleare una riflessione vada fatta. L’incidente alla…
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Decker Blog
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Video Blog: Tell a story to land your point
6 Feb 2012 | 10:31 amRecently, I coached an executive who shared a great example of business storytelling, as an alternative to getting bogged down in data speak. I now share it so you keep using SHARPs (Stories, Humor, Analogies, References & Quotes, Pictures & Visuals) to drive your points and lead others to action. Enjoy! Please let me know your thoughts in the comments and share your own stories. -
Roll with the technical difficulties
27 Jan 2012 | 9:28 amThe audience only gets what you give them. That’s what I kept forgetting as I moped through the Fort Lauderdale airport yesterday. Thanks to inflight wifi, I bring you my story from a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet, on my way home from a three-city keynote tour for a new financial services client (they’ve grown 30% per year for the last few and are investing in their people’s communication skills). The Orlando keynote was great, but then came Fort Lauderdale. True to form, I showed up at the venue early to find the room and set up my equipment. Despite testing it all, this keynote was… -
Simplify your complex problem
20 Jan 2012 | 8:20 amEverything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. -Albert Einstein In the wake of primary season and PAC spending mania, comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have taken it upon themselves to shine a spotlight on the problems with Political Action Committees. It’s a complex issue, but they’ve made it tangible by using SHARPs (Stories, Humor, Analogies, References & Quotes, Pictures & Visuals) to grab our attention and go viral. The PAC issue is nonpartisan – campaigns for Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Green Party alike use PACs as a… -
Video Blog: Steve Jobs motivated with numbers
4 Jan 2012 | 6:00 amBefore coming up for air from the new Steve Jobs biography, I stumbled across a great example of how to motivate people by using graspable numbers. We call this a SHARP (Stories, Humor, Analogies, References and Quotes, Pictures and Visuals) using human scale statistics, which we’ve covered before but will again because it’s so valuable. Take a look and see how you can incorporate this idea in to your next opportunity. -
The Top Ten Best (and Worst) Communicators of 2011
14 Dec 2011 | 4:00 amOur Top Ten Communicators List is all about Trust and Vision. Happily, we start with the Best list, where we honor those who communicate and lead well. Unfortunately, those who dominate the Worst list have garnered most of the attention in 2011 – for lack of trust on the high end and deception on the low end. We have seen the fall of giants, as well as the sleaze of some we have never heard of. Just put these names together: Sandusky, Paterno, McQueary, Cain, Bialek, White, Fine, Boeheim, Sheen, Weiner and the list could go on and on to include CEO’s, politicians, Trustees, and…
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TEDTalks (video)
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TED: Sheikha Al Mayassa: Globalizing the local, localizing the global - Sheikha Al Mayassa (2010)
8 Feb 2012 | 8:28 amSheikha Al Mayassa, a patron of artists, storytellers and filmmakers in Qatar, talks about how art and culture create a country's identity -- and allow every country to share its unique identity with the wider world. As she says: "We don't want to be all the same, but we do want to understand each other." -
TED: Stephen Coleman: The moral dangers of non-lethal weapons - Stephen Coleman (2011)
7 Feb 2012 | 8:08 amPepper spray and tasers are in increasing use by both police and military, and more exotic non-lethal weapons such as heat rays are in the works. At TEDxCanberra, ethicist Stephen Coleman explores the unexpected consequences of their introduction and asks some challenging questions. -
TED: Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are - Neil Burgess (2011)
6 Feb 2012 | 7:58 amHow do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination. -
TED: Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus - Mike deGruy (2010)
4 Feb 2012 | 12:14 amUnderwater filmmaker Mike deGruy has spent decades looking intimately at the ocean. A consummate storyteller, he takes the stage at Mission Blue to share his awe and excitement -- and his fears -- about the blue heart of our planet. -
TED: Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994) - Danny Hillis (1994)
3 Feb 2012 | 8:06 amFrom deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation techniques he uses may look dated, but the ideas are as relevant as ever.
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Presentation Advisors
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10 Lessons Learned from “Every Presentation Ever”
25 Jan 2012 | 6:07 amI came across a fantastic video recently entitled, Every Presentation Ever. This parody, brought to you by Growing Leaders Inc. and Habitudes for Communicators, includes nearly every blunder and annoyance that creeps its way into 99% of presentations (just my educated guess). I posted it on the Presentation Advisors Facebook page a few days ago. Watching it made me cringe, knowing that these mistakes aren’t a product of PowerPoint or the content, but because the presenter doesn’t know the very basics of effective presentation design and delivery. However, I didn’t want… -
20 Best PowerPoint Presentation Design Posts for 2012
1 Jan 2012 | 5:31 pmIn order to create an amazing PowerPoint presentation, you have to learn the process of effective presentation design. After four years of blogging, I’ve written a number of posts designed to help you create better, visually engaging and effective PowerPoint presentations. As all blogs posts do, some resonated better than others and often provided great discussion in the comments. Instead of forcing you to sift through my site, page after page, or trying to search my site with keywords just to find the best posts, I have aggregated 20 of my best blog posts, including the 5 most viewed… -
Dance vs. PowerPoint as a Visual Aid
12 Dec 2011 | 6:50 amThanks to a tweet from fellow presentation designer and visual communicator Tony Ramos, I came across this impressive TEDx talk by John Bohannon, biologist and journalist, entitled, “Dance vs PowerPoint: A Modest Proposal.” Just hearing the title, I was intrigued. I’m no stranger to the numerous arguments against PowerPoint, but I’d never heard of dance as an alternative. Take 11 minutes out of your day to watch this video and I’ll give you my thoughts after the jump. I’m not sure how you saw it, but it seemed his presentation was divided into two distinct… -
What The Long Tail Has To Do With Effective PowerPoint Design
5 Dec 2011 | 8:59 pmRecently I was sitting at a conference with the keynote speaker as he prepared for his afternoon keynote. He admitted to me that his PowerPoint skills were “basic at best,” as if that meant it was impossible for him to create an effective, enjoyable presentation. I told him, “If you can import a picture, you can create an effective PowerPoint.” He smiled and went back to making his last minute edits, but it left me thinking about the general (mis)perception of what it takes to design effective PowerPoint presentations. You don’t need to know as many PowerPoint… -
Building Your Personal Brand with PowerPoint
28 Nov 2011 | 6:10 amI was recently browsing twitter and saw a tweet from my friend Kyle Lacy (Founder/CEO of BrandSwag) about a presentation he and his firm had created and placed on SlideShare called “Building Your Personal Brand.” I wanted to share this presentation with you for a number of reasons that I’ll outline below, but particularly because I truly believe that one of the most valuable yet underutilized uses for PowerPoint is developing your personal brand. Building Your Personal Brand What the internet, particularly social media, has done over the last 15 years is to level the…
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PowerPoint Ninja
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Introducing My New Book
3 Feb 2012 | 7:56 amFor those of you who know me as the PowerPoint Ninja from this blog, you may be surprised (or disappointed) to learn that my recently published book isn’t about PowerPoint or business presentations. In my day job, I work in consulting at Adobe (which acquired Omniture in 2009). Last December, I published my first book, Web Analytics Action Hero, which focuses on how web analysts and digital marketers can leverage analysis to optimize their online business and become action heroes within their organizations (if that sounds exciting — learn more here). While my first published book… -
Emergency Preparedness for PowerPoint
29 Dec 2011 | 8:49 amReady for any PowerPoint emergency. (c) Thinkstock Recently, I was a part of a university event where I needed to present along with a senior executive from my company and several student teams. Rather than switching out the laptops for each different presentation, I decided to load all of the presentations on to my machine beforehand. I hate it when you run into setup problems when one group’s laptop doesn’t work properly with the projector or some other issue — and it throws off the whole schedule. What I didn’t anticipate was that the presentation remote would only… -
Tips for Using Quotes in PowerPoint Presentations
9 Nov 2011 | 6:59 amI love quotes. (c)Thinkstock When you’re trying to add more emphasis or credibility to a key point in your presentation, a quote can come in handy. I’m a fan of a good, well-placed quote. I’ve even assembled a humble collection of PowerPoint-related quotes. However, just like inappropriate or tired images can detract from your content, so can poorly-chosen or over-used quotes. I thought I’d share some thoughts and tips on using quotes in PowerPoint presentations. Two types of quotes I’ve found that good quotes fall into two main categories: Powerful quote because of who uttered… -
PowerPoint 2010 Paste Options – Love at First Sight
20 Jun 2011 | 6:57 amPaste options . . . it was love at first sight. (c) Thinkstock Whether you’re building a PowerPoint presentation from a few other slide decks or creating charts in Excel to add into your slides, you’re constantly copying and pasting things into PowerPoint. One of the most frustrating things is when you copy something – a slide, chart, or table – and paste it into PowerPoint 2007, all of the formatting changes. Grrrrr. More work that you didn’t need. One of my more popular blog posts is actually how to retain the formatting of a slide when it is inserted into another presentation in… -
Localize Your Slides or Risk Losing Your Audience
25 May 2011 | 7:47 amLocalize (localise) your slides! (c) Thinkstock If you present in various locations around the world or even within your own country/province/state/county/city, you might want to consider localizing your slides for your various audiences. The path of least effort is to make one generic version of your slides and just present the same version to all audiences. With the generic slides, you pass up any advantage you would gain from making the slides more relevant and meaningful to a specific local audience. There are some real benefits to localization as local examples can really pique the…
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All About Presentations
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Back-to-Basics: A new series on Presentation Basics
8 Feb 2012 | 2:21 amBack-to-Basics is a series of posts where in I am going to revisit the very basics of what a presentation is, what are the stages of making a presentation and how to excel at making presentations. This post not only includes the lessons I shared in my presentation workshop last week but also takes it forward. It is the crux of my 3 years of blogging. 3 years in which I have written 342 posts. In this series I am going to cover the following: What is a presentation? What are the stages of making a presentation? What are the do's and don'ts at every stage of making a presentation? How to make a… -
Presentation Survey Findings
5 Feb 2012 | 1:17 amThe results of the Presentation Survey are out. 73 people responded to my survey and it is a healthy sample size. Out of 73, 41 were students and the balance were working professionals. Majority of the respondents were from India. Here are the findings: Question: How do you rate OTHERS on presentation skills? (Rate on a scale of 1 to 10; 1 being poor) Rating of 5 or less: 40% Rating of 6 & 7: 36% Rating above 8: 24% Most people rate others as average presenters. The weighted average score comes to 6.2. This is pretty poor. Question: How do you rate YOURSELF on presentation… -
Presentations Checklist [Workshop Material for Free]
2 Feb 2012 | 6:49 amThis Presentation Checklist is the crux of my three years of blogging. This was given out as handouts to all the students who attended my Presentations Workshop "Making a Powerful Point" at SCMS(UG) at Pune. There are four stages of a presentation. Context Content Design (slide design) and Delivery This checklist contains tips on all these stages. This checklist will give you an overview of how to make a presentation step-by-step. However, this checklist does not contain sample slides I presented at the workshop or the discussion we had there. That will be covered in future posts gradually. -
Presentations Workshop at SCMS(UG), Pune
1 Feb 2012 | 8:23 amThis Monday I conducted a workshop for under graduate students from all over India who had come to attend the management fest Sympulse at Symbiosis Center for Management Studies (SCMS UG). The crowd was well above 100 and I conducted a two and a half hour workshop on the basics of making a presentation. Here is a photo of the college. Since the audience was under graduate students the workshop was focussed on absolute basics of making a presentation. This workshop was the crux of all my learning for so many years and it helped me crystallise my learning as well. In the following post I am… -
Have no text at the bottom of the slide
31 Jan 2012 | 8:06 amYesterday I conducted a presentations workshop in Pune. It was a workshop on basics of presentations to under graduate students from all over India and was held as part of Sympulse, the annual management fest at Symbiosis Center for Management Studies UG. The workshop was successful and I too enjoyed a lot. While I will write about the workshop and what I taught there in future posts. This post is about a simple feedback I received from two students. A lot of my slides had text at the bottom and this was getting difficult to read for students at the back (especially if a slightly taller…
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Free iPod Apps - Free Apps for iPod Touch - AppleRepo.com
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Apple Facing iPad Name Lawsuit
8 Feb 2012 | 6:02 pmToday Apple is facing a new kind of lawsuit, this one is specifically regarding the iPad name in China and many analysts say it might actually be a big deal. According to the lawsuit, a small Chinese company is claiming that they own the rights to the iPad name in mainland China and as always [...] -
Egg Timer: Free iPod Touch App Review
8 Feb 2012 | 4:32 amEgg Timer is an application for the iPod Touch and iPhone that will help you to cook the perfect egg. Most people will have an egg timer but now, you don’t need one as there is an app for that. The great thing about the app is that it is completely free to download and [...] -
Apple Credited with Most of Wolfram Traffic
7 Feb 2012 | 6:48 pmWolfram Alpha is one of the newest search engines and in a number of ways it has become quite popular. Wolfram is not like most search engines because it is based on collected data rather than links but it works essentially as well if not better than search engines like Google. Fortunately now Apple is [...] -
Apple accessories available for iPad/iPhone
7 Feb 2012 | 10:31 amSmart Cover – designed for iPad iPad 2 and iPad Smart Cover are made for each other. Literally! Smart Cover has been designed to operate near, above and below iPad 2. iPad Smart Cover is extended to cover and protect your iPad screen, but adds no additional thickness thin and light design his own. Relax [...] -
Groupon; Free iPod Touch App Review
7 Feb 2012 | 6:04 amGroupon is one of the fastest growing companies that has ever existed and they now have an app that has been launched into the iTunes app store. This app will work on the iPod Touch as well as the iPhone and it will allow you to keep up to date with the daily deals that [...]
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Do It With WordPress
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Useful Configuration Tweaks for wp-config.php
6 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amwp-config.php (as you may guess from the name) is a configuration file that allows you to define all the important settings for WordPress. When you first install WordPress, you’ll upload the default wp-config-sample.php, which you’ll need to modify and rename. From then on, you can go on editing wp-config.php. Keep wp-config.php secure There’s two ways of achieving this – you can either move the wp-config.php file out of your public_html folder, into your hosting’s main root folder above public_html. This way, it’s out of reach to the public. Alternatively,… -
Specify how your WordPress Site Should be Viewed on Mobile Devices
2 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amWith the rise of the smartphone, readers are increasingly turning to their mobile devices to read your content. So, you want to be sure that it’s being seen the way you intend for it to be seen. One way that you can make sure of this is to use the Viewport metatag. It is a standard that was developed by Apple at the introduction of the iPhone. It is now supported by most mobile devices, including iPhone, iPad and Android. It allows you to specify what zoom level your site should be set to when it is loaded, how far in or out a user can zoom and even to disable zooming if you wish. For… -
Allow Users to Create Posts on your Site with Formidable Pro
30 Jan 2012 | 5:00 amIn the process of creating a new site, I realised that I needed to allow people to submit information from the site and turn that information into a new post, so that it could then be displayed on the site, without me having to manually copy the information from an email into a new post. I went in search of some solutions and while I had used TDO Mini Forms before, it is no longer in development and was not very user friendly to configure anyway. I was left to decide between Gravity Forms and Formidable Pro. I ultimately decided on Formidable Pro, not least because it was cheaper (and still… -
How to Set Up Domain Mapping for WordPress Multisite
23 Jan 2012 | 5:00 amSo you’ve gone through setting up WordPress Multisite, and now you’re ready to start setting up new sites in your network. Only trouble is, you want to use unique domains for your sites instead of using subdomains of your main installation. Well, with a little extra effort, it’s entirely possible. Install the required plugin There’s an excellent plugin that will do most of the hard work for you. Install the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin and Network Activate the plugin. Before you proceed any further, there’s a couple of things that you have to do manually. -
How to Install & Setup WordPress Multisite
16 Jan 2012 | 5:26 amSince version 3.0, you have natively had the option to activate WordPress Multisite, which allows you to run as many sites as you want from a single WordPress installation (whereas previously it was one website per WordPress installation). If you run a lot of sites, or you have lots of clients that you keep websites for, it can be a lot of maintenance to go to each one individually and update them on a regular basis. With WordPress Multisite, you can update all the plugins and themes with just one click, which is a huge time-saver. I currently run a network of about 10 sites and it makes it…
