Day 61: Fanboy-ish
In case you didn’t realize, Macs need some security as well. I’ve been using the built-in firewall and Clam antivirus, but ArsTechnica covered a few new things I didn’t know about. If you have OS X, then you should really check out Ars’ article.
Tomorrow marks my first public presentation in almost 6 months now. I’m not used to this long of a drought between presentations. Its making me anxious! I am however switching things up a little. Since I have a Mac now (yay!), I’ll be using Keynote. So far I’m really impressed with some of the features. There was a slight learning curve since some of my keyboard shortcuts from Powerpoint didn’t work, but it was worth the swap. I plugged another monitor into my laptop to see how to setup dual displays. This is where the Apple beauty shines through. You can set which display to show the presentation. Obviously in my case, I want the projector to display the presentation on the big screen. With powerpoint, my computer screen would just show the same thing as the projector does. Using Keynote though, my laptop screen shows: the current time, how long I’ve talked, my current slide, and my next slide. Wow! I typically have a good internal time clock, but now I’ll be able to tell exactly how good it is. Also, this should help me transition from slide to slide better providing contextual cues. If you have an Apple computer and don’t have Keynote then you’re just missing out. I highly recommend it.
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Tags: Apple, ars technica, arstechnica, keynote, mac, os x, osx, powerpoint, security, will life
