March 5th, 2008
My friend Luis Suarez twittered the following message to his army of 527 “followers” this morning:
Hummm did I say how much I *loathe* PowerPoint?!?!?! Aaarrrrggggghhhhh stupid thing would not save changes in a preso I’m working on!! :-//
I was focusing on some other part of my computer screen at the time, on the other side […]
January 10th, 2008
I got an unexpected email message from Apple yesterday, informing me that Microsoft’s Office 2008 product was available for “pre-order”; it will be officially released at next week’s MacWorld, along with a slew of other hardware and software products.
Well, it’s been four years since we’ve seen a new version of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint for […]
October 16th, 2007
I‘ll be giving a presentation on the “top 10 software engineering concepts” at an ITMPI software best-practices seminar in Jacksonville, FL today; for more details about this and future seminars (including, for example, Albany and Austin next month), click here.
If you’d like to download a 18.4-megabyte PDF of the one-page mind-map for the presentation, click […]
October 1st, 2007
During the past week, I’ve begun converting some of my standard conference presentations into Google Docs presentations, so that people anywhere in the world could not only view them more easily, but also so they’d be able to add new material, correct any errors they found, and generally improve on whatever I had done. […]
September 29th, 2007
I’ve uploaded another one of my presentations, entitled “Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts.” You can access it on Google Docs by clicking here. If you’d like to download the 15.9-megabyte PDF version of the “mind-map” from which the Powerpoint presentation was created, click here.
If you’d like to be added to the list of collaborators — […]
September 28th, 2007
When I saw that Google Docs had introduced a new Powerpoint-clone presentation mechanism a couple weeks ago, I decided that it would be a good way to share the Web 2.0 presentation that I’ve been posting as a massive “mind-map” for the past year or so … indeed, not just share it, but also […]
September 22nd, 2007
A couple days ago, I noticed a posting on John Battelle’s SearchBlog blog that Google Apps now has a Powerpoint-clone presentation package; and since many of my conference and seminar presentations have been created with Powerpoint over the years, I decided to take a look…
… and I’m hooked. Make no mistake: this isn’t really Powerpoint, […]
August 7th, 2007
Apple’s new product announcements — upgraded iMacs, a somewhat upgraded .Mac online service, and a new “2008″ version of iWork and iLife — may not represent the “tipping point” that persuades new PC purchasers that they should buy a Mac instead of a PC. But it will probably eliminate any doubt or remorse on the […]
April 25th, 2006
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away — the summer of 1987, to be precise, in the little village of Water Mill, New York, where I was spending the summer — I somehow found out about a small company called Forethought, which had a Mac-only product bearing the name “Powerpoint.” For someone […]
