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April 2005
- How To Convert HTML Into A Cross-Browser Slide Show: S5
S5 allows you taking a simple HTML file and turning it into a cross-browser slide show. S5 is a slide show format based on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and obtain a printer-friendly version as well. Its markup is simple and accessible. Anyone with a little knowledge of HTML / XHTML can look at the markup and easily understand how to...
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-- April 30
- How To Structure Your PowerPoint Presentation
One reader e-mailed me with a common problem. One person who presents regularly always tries to fit “25 pounds… into a 5 pound bag.” How do you prevent this from happening with your presentations? Try these six tips…...
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Diana Huggins -- April 28
- Creating Digital Images With No Restrictions: OpenRaw
Most camera manufacturers use a proprietary file format to store the 'raw' data from their digital cameras. In the short history of digital photography, manufacturers have dropped support for asset management applications, abandoned settings from older RAW processor versions and changed the methods of storing basic camera settings without documentation....
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Francis Good -- April 26
- How To Open .PPS Files Without PowerPoint
QUESTION: Hi, I was wondering how to associate a .pps file with PowerPoint. Specifically, I would like to know how to open a .pps file when after having clicked on it a dialogue box asks you what application you want to use to open it. Thanks, Virginia...
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| cat.: Troubleshooting
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-- April 24
- How to Extract Embedded Audio Files From A PowerPoint Show
QUESTION: Hello, I would like to be able to extract the embedded .wav music from a .pps file. When I use MS PowerPoint I don't see the Speaker Icon on the slide, so I don't know how to get it. Can you please help? Thanks, Jack M....
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-- April 22
- How To Convert PowerPoint Presentations To Online Audio-Visual Class Lectures: iLecture
A new software tool developed by the Information Commons Production Services Team at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences of the University of Iowa, iLecture, allows the preparation and design of an online lecture. Here is how to use it....
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-- April 20
- How To Avoid Usability Problems In Web-Based Navigation Systems
In his latest Alertbox issue, entitled "Medical Usability: How to Kill Patients Through Bad Design", Jakob Nielsen, one of the world's leading authorities on corporate Web site usability and interface design, points to a paper, entitled "Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in Facilitating Medication Errors," published in March in the Journal of the American Medical Association....
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| cat.: Information Design
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Jakob Nielsen -- April 18
- How To Organize A Site Navigation
Should a site navigation be driven by principles of consistency and accessibility to all "other" information available on the site, or should it be directed by flow principles?...
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Robin Good -- April 16
- How To Visualize Data And Provide Entertainment
If you are interested in data visualization for the scope of providing valuable and entertaining information to a wide and popular audience, this mini-manifesto from Princeton University Information Networks Archive (INA), may give you some good inspiration....
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Robin Good -- April 14
- How To Set The Default Font For All Your PowerPoint Presentations
QUESTION: Dear Masterviews, I have read your Q&A on How to Change the Default Font In PowerPoint. Unfortunately, I only know how to change the default font within a document, but don't know how to set this permanently for all future presentations I will create. How can I predefine the default font for all my presentations? Thanks D.S....
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-- April 12
- How To Enlarge Any Image File To A Poster-Size Format
An excellent tool for workshop presenters, trainers, facilitators and even for marketing and sales staff, is this little easy-to-use utility which allows you to enlarge and tile-print any image file to a poster-size format. This is extremely handy when you have a low-budget and need to have maximum visual impact in a presentation....
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Robin Good -- April 10
- How To See A Place You Have Never Visited
Have you ever wanted to see a place before you actually went there? A far-away house? A shopping-mall? A stadium? If you live in the US, now you can....
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Robin Good -- April 8
- How To Talk With Someone Else On the Internet With No Microphone
When it comes to talking to someone else via computer on the Internet, unless you have a microphone (headset integrated, desktop stand, built-in into the laptop) you really can't do much. Or not?...
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Robin Good -- April 6
- Where To Find Great Free Images For Your Presentations
Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important article, essay or news report is already quite a challenge for many. Imagine when the goal is not just too find good images, but find some that you could openly and freely use without needing to pay royalties or one-time publishing rights to someone....
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| cat.: Clipart, Images
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Robin Good -- April 4
- How To Show Two Presentations Looping Automatically
If you want to link two presentations and make them seamlessly loop into each other, here is what I would suggest you to do. You may create a timed automatic transition with a seamless effect that switches between shows without using a mouse click. The technique that I will show you entails the creation of a timed automatic transition that switches between shows without using a mouse click. Here are...
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