By default PowerPoint 2010 will embed video files.  That is, it will make them part of a single PPTX file.  This has a dramatic effect on the size of the PPTX file, but Microsoft opted to change the default behavior of PowerPoint with the release of the 2010 version because of the chief problem with linked video files:  portability.  With previous versions of PowerPoint, when people took their presentations to a venue with a different computer than the computer on which the presentation was created, they inevitably left the linked videos behind, and when it came time in the presentation to play the...

If you are like me you value the many free news and information sources available on the Internet, but you find all the distractions that come along with a typical ad-supported web site to be obnoxious if not hideous. Many of these web sites look like a Nascar demolition derby, with gaudy ads sprinkled about aimed at distracting your eye from the headline that led you to the site and impossible-for-humans-to-ignore motion that make you forget why you came to the site in the first place. The problem: a hall of carnival barkers with a nugget of embedded information. The solution: Clearly. Clearly is a...

According to appleoutsider.de Apple Mac computers retain the same anemic 4-5% market share they have always had.  They remain too expensive, too exclusive, too restrictive, and too limited compared to their competition to become widely popular.  If you factor in iPad sales, however, Apple becomes the market leader, even exceeding current PC market leader HP. So is this a comparison of apples to apples (excuse please) when facotring in the iPad?  Or is it Apple’s apples and oranges vs. everyone else’s apples that are really being compared.  Tablet sales for other vendors are pretty...

You may want to insert a couple of slides from one presentation into another, here’s how. Step 1: Open the target presentation, the one you want to insert slides into. Step 2: on the Slide panel in normal view (thumbnails on the left of the screen) click between the existing slides where you want the inserted slides to go.  You will see a dark, horizontal line appear there between two existing slides (or after the final slide, if that is where you want the insertion to occur). Step 3: Now on the Home tab click the drop-down beneath the New Slide command (i.e., click on the lower part of this...

The iPad app of Al Gore’s Our Choice was updated last Thursday (April 26, 2012) and I read it over the weekend to see what Push Pop Press had done with Gore’s 2009 book.  It is not ‘the way books are going to be’ as several reviews gush, at least I hope not for the technical reasons I give below, but it is an outstanding work with many compelling reasons to purchase it (price being high on the list, at $4.99) rather than the hard copy. The Content First, the content.  Our Choice may some day, after the homogenizing brush of history blends the strident climate crisis messages,...