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Quick Book Reviews

354 days
by in Public Speaking, Reviews

I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and not as much writing as I should. To that end, I’ll give some quick highs and lows of what I’ve read as of late.

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Sauls’ Laws of PC Maintenence: Why is My Computer So Slow?

381 days
by in Technology

Remember when your computer seemed like it could take on the world? Opening programs and documents was fast. Installations took no time at all. Things just worked…and fast.

However, as time has passed, you’re finding that it takes forever to boot, forever to launch programs, forever to find your documents…it’s at the point where you’re ready to see if a liberal application of holy water (or any water, if you think you’ll be able to get a new machine out of the deal) will do something to fix the problem. Hold the H2O, because there are some ways to keep your PC working better for longer, many of which are easy to do. Read this article to find out why you should care, and to get five ways to keep your PC in shape.

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Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst Review

410 days
by in Reviews

Is this you?

Your e-mail chime dings, adding yet another message to the inbox stack you’ve pretty much given up hope on. You look at your digital camera and wonder just how you’re going to sort yet another few gigabytes worth of pictures. The mail popup reminds you (for the third or fourth time now, no less) that your co-worker needs a report you’ve already made, and now it’ll take a good half hour to find it in your now vast collection of office documents that are scattered on your computer, your company servers, flash drives, and who knows where else.

If it is, you suffer from a lack of bit literacy.

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Using a Wiimote to Control Your Presentations

541 days
by in Slideware

Let’s say that your fancy Logitech R800 has died the night before the presentation, and you would thus suffer the ignominy of being remoteless tomorrow. Barring a visit to the office store (which you don’t have time for, of course), you begin to think of alternatives, which makes you look at the remote devices around. Hm. Control it by your phone? Maybe game controllers? TV remotes? Surely those won’t work…

Actually, it’s more possible than you think. In this article, I’ll talk about how you can do it with the Wiimote on the PC.
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Warming up the jury duty crowd

559 days
by in Public Speaking

Reposted from another newsletter I used to maintain.

As those of you following me on Twitter or Facebook know, I went to jury duty this week (quite some time ago, now). To summarize, I went there, didn’t get called in the first round of selections, then did in the second round. After going to the courthouse and waiting for about an hour, my group was told we could go home as the case was settled.

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Law of the Laser Pointer: Attraction or Annoyance?

563 days
by in Slideware

Jerry Weissman makes it very clear in his book Presenting to Win that “pointers are weapons and weapons have no place in a presentation”. In this article I’m going to disagree with Jerry…but only slightly.

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Law of the Remote: Why you Need a Wireless Presenter

597 days
by in Slideware

Think of a time that after a long day at work, you just wanted to sit in front of the TV and relax. You were tired, worn out, and didn’t want to do much thinking, let alone moving. Good thing you have hundreds of channels, never mind video games, what’s on the DVR, DVDs, Blu-Rays, internet media…

But terrifyingly enough…there’s no remote.

Suddenly, watching TV is a huge chore. Changing channels? Good luck with the TV controls. Volume adjustments? Same thing. Commercial on the TV or get a phone call? Have fun trying to mute the thing.

Most people would march right out to the store to get a replacement that second, but for some reason, settle for utterly awkward control of their slideware by either having to go and press a key on their laptop, or have to awkwardly tell someone else to do it. Either of these options are as annoying as having to go to the TV to change channels.
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Laying Down the Laws

601 days
by in Meta

Sometime around April 1985, I was riding in the back of my friend’s dad’s van, watching the rain splatter and dot the rear windows. We were on the way home following a visit to a roller rink-slash-entertainment center, and it was around eight or nine in the evening. I’d spent the evening playing (or wanting to play, given my limited funds back then) arcade games for the most part (the other part being almost getting into a fight by some even younger kids who apparently had nothing better to do).

While I looked out down the street and the lights, noticing the reflections held in miniature in the droplets that had coalesced on the window, I had a thought.

I want to be a teacher.
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