PowerPoint Tip that You Will Always Use

I use this tip in most PowerPoint presentations that I give. Short simple and effective.

When you are in slide show mode and someone asks a question and you want to focus the audience attention on the question and not on the slide then either hit 'b' (for black) or "w" for white. The screen will go black or white.

This is useful if there is a pause in a presentation as well where the meeting goes off into another discussion but at some stage you will be returning to the presentation.

Try it believe me it is part of your tool kit that you will always use. Short and sweet. Let me know what you think of it.

1000 Updates - Confessions of a Twitterhollic

As this is my 1000th update on Twitter I had thought of doing a thoughtful well written piece on social media Twitter.  But I quickly gave that up as there are hundreds of sites out there shouting out this type of information so whoosh into the bin.

So I thought back to the places where I have sent tweets from to date.  Here are a few that I admit to at least (the bathroom story will have to wait)

In Hospital

I was visiting someone in hospital last week with my wife and as she chatted and my interest in the conversation lagged., my hand drifted to my IPhone and I quietly opened Tweetie.  I saw a Tweet that interested me and quickly re-tweeted it.  Fix complete I returned my dutiful stare to the conversation.  Fix complete.  They thought I was sending an SMS, dream on - SMS is sooo 90s!!

Stuck In Traffic

Most mornings I spend a little time stuck in traffic - same place every time - unfortunately it is in a 3G blackspot but I still manage a couple of Tweets as I edge along slowly.  Don't tell the police please, but my followers are screaming out for those critical stuck in traffic the updates.

First Thing  in the Morning - Last Thing at Night

I open up Twitter first thing in the AM and last thing at night (which is often the AM these days as well) and check my Tweets and more often not send a quick tweet or response to messages.  Right after brushing my teeth maybe even during.  When will they make an IPhone that brushes teeth?

Tweetdeck

Boring I know but in the evenings Tweetdeck is on all the time while I work on my web projects, study for my BA in Spanish or just plain surf the web. 

Beach

I tweeted from the middle of an empty beach last week in Kerry.  Beautiful view of Mount Brandon and of course had to be shared with my followers.  Snap picture.  Quick tweet.  Now back to the view.

What sort of places have you tweeted from?

Downloading Music

This article does not condone the illegal download of music.  It is merely meant to explain how content can be downloaded using the Internet torrents.

A lot of people ask me how to download music and content from the internet so here is a simple step by step tutorial on how to do this.

Torrent Client

First and foremost the best and non visur laden method of downloading content from the Internet is to use one of the many torrent clients that are out there.  I use Utorrent and find it reliable and intuitive. You can download this from www.utorrent.com  Downalod and install.

Find Content

There are many torrent web sites out there but I usually use www.torrentz.net which searches all the torrents sites.  Go to this type in what you are looking for and it will present you with a list of links to torrent sites that have the content you are looking for.

Click on one of these links.

This will bring you to the site.  Many of these sites have unrelated links that you are not interested in.  Click on the link that says Downlaod Torrent.

Once you have done this the link should automatically open up your torrent client (Utorrent in this case).

Download

The speed of the download will depend on the number of seeds that have this content.  The more seeds (or other computers on the Internet) that have the content the faster the download will take.  It can vary between minutes and sometimes hours and also depends on the size of your download.

You can monitor the progress of your download on the client.  From time to time a downalod will fail.  If this is the case go search for another source for your files and try again.

Have fun...

10 Second Tip

Today's Teky Tip is short and sweet they don't all have to be detailed with screen shots.  Its is using PDFs for presentations.  So often we try and convert a word document or an Excel spreadsheet to PowerPoint when if you just use a tool like PDFCreator it will easily allow you t oprint files to PDF and then allow you use the full screen feature of it to present a presentation like report.

Download it, Its free

Save Money Booking Ryanair Flights

Just a tip for those of you who use Ryanair often. The airline charges 10 euro per person when booking flights by credit/debit  card . There is a way around it though If you buy Ryanair vouchers on the website (very easy process) and then use the vouchers to buy your flights, there are no extra charges for using your
card.  When you buy the vouchers, you get the code immediately and then you  just use that to pay for your flights therefore dodging the extra €10 per person for use of a debit/credit card.

I Made the Mother In Law Happy

Yes I did.  Sister in law had a baby boy last Saturday all together aaaaahhh.  Went to hospital to see the arrival  - ooohed and aaaahed - but then father in law's battery went on his tin can digital camera died after 30 seconds.  I however was completely tooled up with the IPhone and took 40-50 snaps at all angles. But the in-laws went home with no photos.  Father-in-law definitely in spare bedroom last night.

This morning I got into top gear over making the breakfast.  Downloaded photos off IPhone.  Downloaded Photo Story 3 for Windows (free!!).  Created a Project in less than 10 minutes.  Slapped it onto a DVD with soppy music on background.  Sent it over to them this evening.  Big win all round, admiring glances from Mother In Law.  Sheepish looks from father in law - his camera charging quietly in corner.

The IPhone camera although 2MP took some pretty OK photos and because it is slim allowed me get into an angles typical cameras didn't allow me. Saw this on Twitter earlier about some excellent IPhone photos that I really enjoyed.

Have you a camera disaster story.

Are you a Bleeter?

I like Twitter.  I have a deep fear that in the coming months and years it might become a uni-directional place where people send Tweets hoping people will click on their blog/site and they can then monetise it.  Tweetdeck is helping there as I now have a group which I call real people that I grow as I create solid relationships on Twitter and another that I use to drag the uni-directional monetisation monsters.  I suggest we call them bleeters !!




I set up this and 2 other accounts recently.  One I use most is @kdaly100 another I cannot tell you as I use it exclusively for real friends and I don't want you to intrude and this one I am going to use for my web design business. 


I plan to put strong articles here that will really help people with web site design and technology in general.  And no it wont be on this site as this is just a fun tech blog full of various posts that I drop in occasionally.  So please go away and come back another day when I actually have something to say - grin -.

Are you a bleeter????