Les Posen's Presentation Magic

Did you catch the TED talk given last month, and posted just recently, by Temple Grandin, left? I first came across her life and work several years ago in a documentary, and since then have listened to her being interviewed several times whenever she has published a new book. In her TED...

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We are approaching the end of March, three months into the new year, and a few weeks before the release of the first iPad variants in the US. This is fifteen months out from the last iWork upgrade, taking one of its apps, Keynote, from version 4 to version 5. And...

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Because I’m not placing my Powertools file on the Macworld website for attendees to review (I used several Keynote files, the main one being more than 2GB in size), I thought I’d share some of the Presentation Magic workshop here on my blog. One of the changes I made from last...

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Just a brief update about the Presentation Magic workshop at Macworld this past week; evaluations are in and it looks after talking to Macworld MD Paul Kent that we’ll be back in 2011, January 25-29 for Macworld 2011. Here’s a brief Fox News report broadcast February 9 featuring a glimpse of...

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I’m preparing a rather lengthy (even for me) blog post about the iPad which I’ll publish once I complete my Presentation Magic workshop at Macworld next week. Curiously, the dust has yet to settle on the iPad, even though more than a week has passed. Can you recall a product in...

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On the eve of the Apple special event, and considerably more information dribbling out from sources that we are looking at a tablet-format device, spare a moment for those naysayers asking why the world “needs” another tablet, when the models before (powered by flavours of Windows) have all but failed...

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I was having lunch last Friday with the guys at Connecting Point, a Melbourne Apple reseller with a large customer roll within the educational sector, from primary (elementary) through to college (university). It also makes sales to individuals, and I have referred a number of switchers to them over the...

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The official Powerpoint  2010 blog today made an exciting announcement regarding how Powerpoint will handle video in the future. Here’s a screenshot below (I’ve added the red underline to draw your attention to the money quote, click to enlarge): Because Powerpoint 2010 will take advantage of hardware acceleration and DirectX9.0, you...

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With the extra spare time due to the summer break here in Australia (things get busy again next week), I have been experiencing a “Perfect Storm” of blogging: Intense interest in things electronic via CES 2010 (now history), the headiness of a major Apple product revolution that even has sceptics...

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Over the weekend, I noticed almost a dozen application updates waiting for me in the iTunes App store for my iPhone 3G. Two of those were from Dragon, firstly its Dragon Search App (below): and also for its Dictate App. (below): The two key improvement cited for both were: Support for the iPod...

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