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Idea Flight harnesses multiple iPads for presentation mojo

by Michael Rose (Jun 1st, 2011)

What could be more engaging than presenting from your iPad to a roomful of seen-it-all colleagues or clients? Sure, it's keen and different, but when you come down to it, slides are slides. Pushing up involvement by distributing printed copies of the deck is one way to level up the amount of ...

Present PDFs with style using PDF to Keynote

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 21st, 2011)

So, your boss just dropped a 25-page PDF document into your lap for a presentation he is doing today using Keynote for iPad. In typical fashion, he needed it done yesterday, but is handing it to you now for a presentation he is doing in a little over an hour. He utters the obligatory apology for the ...

The Matrix app turns iPads into a video wall

by Mike Schramm (Feb 14th, 2011)

I spoke with someone from Anywise Enterprises at CES this past year, and they told me about The Matrix, an iPad app (that's now out on the App Store) that will network a bunch of iPads together to create a video wall of whatever size you want. We've seen this idea custom implemented in art ...

Papershow for Teachers introduced at Macworld 2011

by Mike Schramm (Jan 28th, 2011)

Papershow made a big splash last year at Macworld during its introduction, and since then has apparently sold fairly well in business circles (the product is now being sold in Staples as well). This year, Papershow is introducing a new edition styled for education applications, called Papershow ...

SlideRocket brings web presentations to iPhone and iPad with HTML5

by Michael Rose (Nov 16th, 2010)

Since the dawn of time, traveling professionals have sought easier ways to present on the go. Pico projectors! Netbooks! Converting presentations to video to show them on iPhones! Then there was Keynote on the iPad, and it was good. Not great, however: presenters with libraries of PPT content have ...

First look: Fuze Meeting extends remote presentation mojo to iPad

by Michael Rose (Sep 21st, 2010)

Modern meetings are a marvel. With strong competition in the remote presentation/conferencing product space, we now have plenty of capable and feature-rich platforms that offer affordable (sometimes free) remote meetings, most with a good Mac compatibility story to tell. The catch, of course, ...

The app market, by the numbers

by Mike Schramm (Aug 20th, 2010)

The very insightful Stuart Dredge over at Mobile Entertainment has compiled an amazing primer on all of the numbers behind the app market (which you can also see by clicking the "Read More" link, although it's not viewable on an iPad or iPhone). If you want to know anything about how many apps are ...

Voices that Matter iPhone: How Ben Newhouse created Yelp Monocle, and the future of AR

by Mike Schramm (Apr 26th, 2010)

Yelp's Ben Newhouse (who is actually still a student at Stanford) gave a fascinating talk this weekend at the Seattle Voices that Matter iPhone conference. He talked about Yelp Monocle, the augmented reality (AR) iPhone app that he created, and revealed the surprising (and somewhat scandalous) ...

Apple offers Keynote for iPad advice

by Dave Caolo (Apr 23rd, 2010)

Several weeks ago, we described how Keynote for the iPad suffers from formatting and other issues when sharing presentations with a Mac. No support for custom fonts, disappearing presenter notes, and trouble with screen ratios were some of the problems we encountered. As if they were listening, ...

Real-life iPad: Presenting with an iPad, Keynote, and VGA connector

by Steven Sande (Apr 9th, 2010)

When I'm not having fun as a Mac consultant and TUAW editor, I teach community education classes at the Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, Colorado. Last night was the scheduled night for my blogging class, so I decided to see if I could teach the class from my iPad. I had mixed results. ...

Ballmer reveals some 'slate' PCs, but does not thrill

by Mel Martin (Jan 7th, 2010)

There was quite a bit of anticipation that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would upstage Apple with an exciting new tablet design at his CES keynote last night, but it pretty much turned out to be a dud. After more than an hour of bobbing and weaving through several topics, and quickly skipping over ...

Book Review: "The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs"

by Sang Tang (Oct 21st, 2009)

In "The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs," Carmine Gallo provides a framework for you to deliver a keynote like Steve does. The book provides both an Al Michaels and John Madden perspective of Jobs's keynotes: a play-by-play account of events married with analytical insight. While rich in ...

HandyGames releases App Store analysis presentation

by Mike Schramm (Sep 29th, 2009)

Top20 iPhone Games Analysis 09/2009 View more presentations from HandyGames Germany. The folks over at German developer HandyGames originally put together this slideshow presentation for their own internal use, but they determined that it actually could be useful for almost anyone following ...

How to create Keynote themes

by Sang Tang (Sep 25th, 2009)

Out of the box, Apple's Keynote is a gem. The app is intuitive and, like many Apple products, strikes a nice and delicate balance between ease-of-use for novice users and functionality for more advanced power users. While Keynote offers a nice set of built-in themes, there may be times when you want ...

Things mom may not have told you about Keynote: Presenter Display

by Sang Tang (Jul 23rd, 2009)

I consider myself a power Keynote user, and overwhelmingly prefer the app over PowerPoint (on both the Mac and PC) -- even though though I'm just as well-versed at PowerPoint. Only on rare occasions do I start my presentation workflow in PowerPoint (if the deck is going to be chart-centric, to avoid ...