Powerpoint Presenter’s View on the Wrong Display
Suppose you’re trying to run a Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 slide show on your Mac, but the Presenter’s View with all your notes shows up on the projector, while the actual slide show is on your laptop. Here’s how to switch them: Within PowerPoint, click in the menu bar: Slide Show > Set Up Show… Click the Screen… button. Note that this only works while your laptop is...
Read MoreWashington D.C. shoots Goo over the bow of Microsoft
Washington DC has recently decided to hang up the keys to the Microsoft Upgrade Closet and adopt Google Apps for its city employees. The choice Washington DC has made will help to cut their budget by $3.5 million in software licensing fees alone. That looks good for taxpayers; not for Microsoft. Of course this doesn’t necessarily spell doom for Redmond, but it doesn’t necessarily look fab...
Read MoreGetting a Clearer Message
A touching moment at Coyote Hills Regional, and retouching photographs with Adobe Photoshop adjustment layers and filters. Pondering on how to use the tools available to you to best get across your message.
Read MoreAdobe Adopts Microsoft’s Drunk Thinking
Well now this is just stupid. Taking a chapter right out of Microsoft’s intrusive “We’ll block everything for you until you say it’s ok” Vista book, Adobe has suddenly and annoyingly decided to block every flash file from trying to play on your computer without warning or explanation. Great idea on paper maybe, but as a well-crafted Apple ad points out, it’s ultimately just pointless...
Read MoreXP Service Pack 3 Problematic
Hold off on the update for now So it’s no surprise that the new Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Windows officially released last week, which finally incorporates the nearly 100 security fixes that have been released after the aging Service Pack 2, is having issues. I have intentionally held back on a universal update on machines I help to maintain, but I have updated a few without incidents so...
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