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Presentation Tips - keep it simple

Pretty amazing and nailing it down! Most presentations show too much, go to deep,

and do not satisfy the audience (your customers!). 

In fact, you are giving them a burdon to take along!

http://www.slideshare.net/ethos3/simplify-simplify-simplify?utm_source=slideshow&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=weekly_digest

Helps you to keep it all simple, and be more effective!

(Made by the people at Ethos3)

Transfer music from an iDevice back to a Macbook (or laptop)

iTunes will allow you to get Music from your Macbook to your iDevice, such as your iPad. 

Great! But now: how to get music of your iPad, back to (any) other laptop?

This way around is much more complicated. (Due to Apple's concern of illegal copying of music from those small devices).

There are quite a few software programs that can do the trick for you, but they all cost some money. 

There is an option: use Senuti  which allows to download up to a 1000 songs for free (during the 30 day trial). That will do in most cases, right!

It will ask a few details, basically where you will want your music to appear.

Just tried it, and it saved a few songs for me. Highly recommended!

Have Google Trends as a Screen saver (and some other RSS screen saver options)

This is basically a fun one:

Google tracks and monitors all searches that people perform, obvious!

They now have a nice graphical interface developed, that will show those latest Google search/trends.

Head over to http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?pn=p3

and you can (try fullscreen!) display the trends, and even select a specific country.

Here is a recent -  typical :-)  - example for Canada:

You can - for Mac 10.9 + only - download a screensaver program, that will give you the same look and feel

as the website (the trends come in bright colors, and are 'typed')

TIP

Here is another Goodie:

If you would like to have your Mac display a certain RSS feed (like these Google trends, or news, or . . .)

in the screensaver, that is possible!

Go to your System Preferences, Screensaver, and then select RSS Visualizer: 

Now you can add the RSS feed link into the options box (where it states 'Feed URL'):

Here are a few you could go for (source: Richard Byrne from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ ):

Feeds directly related to education:
A Geeky Momma's Blog
Dangerously Irrelevant
iLearn Technology
Instructify
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
Moving at the Speed of Creativity
The English Blog

Feeds targeted toward the tech early adopter audience:
Killer Startups
Mashable
The Official Google Blog

Or, maybe, just a fun one like this:  Jumbo Joke – provides some great humour to brighten your day, or

Or, one that will keep you busy: Del.icio.us Hotlist – It gives you the websites that are getting the most attention/bookmarks on Delicious at the moment

Embedding Flickr Photos - as a slideshow - in your blog

Flickr has changed a few things. Apart from giving us 1 TeraByte free storage (which is awesome)

they made it harder to login (soon only Yahoo accounts will be possible. However, you can make one easily actually).

Another side effect: it's no longer an easy step to embed Flickr photo slides shows in your blog or on your website.

Well, there is always a solution:

Checkout

http://flickrit.com/index.php

They make it possible again!

Just follow the prompts on their website. For an album to show, you would need to copy/paste the 

album ID-number (formerly known as set) into the parameters. You can easily see that number in the 

album URL (website address). It's a pretty long number (digits only)

After doing so, you will be presented with the embed code, for this album it would be:

You just paste this iFrame code into your blog post (choose text or html mode), and you will get

a beautiful slideshow with all (100 max.) images of the album.

Pretty easy, and slick for sure!