Productivity on the iPad

Mar 31, 2010 | 3 Comments

You only have to wait a few more days, my impatient friends. Your iPad will soon arrive, and you’ll be able to play to your heart’s content. In order to help keep you occupied, I have found a few videos that showcase some of the features and apps built in to the device. Productivity is [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 Comparison Screencast

Nov 9, 2009 | 8 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I recently asked all of you to submit your screencasts to me for review. The best of the best will be chosen to be featured here, in my various channels and outlets. This provides content of a different perspective for our [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 Screencast

Oct 31, 2009 | One Comment

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Recently I threw down the gauntlet, asking all of you to submit your best screencasts. I plan to highlight the best of the best here in my channel, and help promote yours. Jack has sent a few in to us now, [...]

What’s Better Than Microsoft PowerPoint?

Jun 11, 2009 | 6 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Did you ever know how most presentations suck? It’s bad enough that people doing them tend to suck, as well. It’s not their fault, though. Most of the presentation software is just not that good. A good presentation shows pictures, and [...]

Can You put a PowerPoint Presentation on an iPhone?

Jul 22, 2008 | 14 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During the course of the average weekday, we record videos here on the live stream. Sometimes, I run out of ideas of what to do. So when I threw it out to the chat room for suggestions, Fireworks came up with [...]

Creating Presentations on the Web

Jun 17, 2008 | 9 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed It’s a sad fact of life than many of us will have to suffer through tons of presentations in our lives. Many of those aren’t even well put-together. Instead of dwelling on this negative fact, let’s move over to the positive. [...]

How Not to Send an Email

Feb 19, 2008 | 35 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed One of our viewers sent the following to me: “5 ways to make your e-mails more interesting and fun for all. I don’t know if such a list has already been sent to you, but in any case here are my [...]

Tips for Better PowerPoint Presentations

Feb 1, 2008 | 35 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed It may be simple to begin using PowerPoint… but it’s not so easy to make professional looking presentations. These tips were sent in by a community member, and will help you in your endeavor to create a great presentation. Be sure [...]

How to Make a Good PowerPoint Presentation

Oct 8, 2007 | 12 Comments

Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – Gordon emailed to ask me if I’ve heard of Preezo.com. Preezo is a free website you can use to build presentations, much like with PowerPoint. You can easily build, share and email things with Preezo, so I decided to check it [...]

Conference PowerPoint Presentations

Aug 18, 2007 | 5 Comments

Stuart kindly asked Gnomedex participants for links to their presentations – and if there are any missing, we’ll certainly edit the list. NOTE: some presenters politely declined (and other presenters did well without slides). It’s been a busy week, and I’m still trying to sort through it myself: Michael Linton Robert Steele Guy Kawasaki Sterling [...]

Finally, the Office 2007 Ribbon Rocks!

Jul 30, 2006 | 6 Comments

I wasn’t sure if I’d be sold on the Office 2007 Ribbon interface. It’s different – almost too different. I know they said it was supposed to increase productivity, but to me it just increased screen clutter. Today, I heard that the Office 2007 Ribbon [is] To Be Tweaked: The Ribbon, a new top-of-the-window feature [...]