News: SPC300 portable document camera sports 3.2 MP sensor. AVerMedia on Tuesday introduced its SPC300 Portable Visual Presenter, a Mac and PC-compatible portable document camera that features 3.2 megapixel sensor. It costs $1,299.99 or $1,499.99 for a “Premium” version. The SPC300 enables classroom presenters to display documents, 3D objects, microscopic images and other content. It connects to a Mac or PC using a USB cable and included AVerVision software. Features include Picture-in-Picture (PiP), split screen functions, the ability to display live or recorded video auto focus, zooming and panning.
A wireless remote control is included. The SPC300 displays a full 8 x 11-inch viewing area and works at 24 frames per second, displaying at up to 48x zoom. The SPC300 outputs at XGA (1024 x 768 pixel) resolution, and includes DVI-I , S-video and composite video outputs. The Premium version adds laser positioning guides and a padded carrying bag. How to create Keynote themes. Out of the box, Apple's Keynote is a gem. The app is intuitive and, like many Apple products, strikes a nice and delicate balance between ease-of-use for novice users and functionality for more advanced power users. While Keynote offers a nice set of built-in themes, there may be times when you want a more customized look -- be it a different resolution, font, background or element or graphic.
To begin, choose an existing theme. Here, I'm choosing to use the default "White" Keynote theme. Then, you'll want to modify the master slides, which is accessible by pulling down the divider adjacent to the "Slides" viewer, or by clicking "View" and selecting "Show Master Slides. " While modifying fonts is relatively straightforward, other things aren't as apparent -- such as changing the background of a slide. Doing this requires you to click on "Inspector" and choosing the "Master Slide Inspector" pane within it.
Winners of World's Best Presentation Contest. Blog Archive » PowerPoint 2008…back in the game? I finally got my copy of Office 2008 a few days ago and have been messing with PowerPoint and Word a bit to see what all the fuss is about. My first thoughts? Powerpoint is back in the game. (I apologize now for not putting any screens shots in here, but I may add them this week just to spice up the story) Now, I’m sure you’re wondering why the heck the owner of Keynoteuser.com would even take a glance at PowerPoint, and I can understand your concern. But I first jumped on Keynote because it seemed to inspire me, even though I wasn’t a presenter or even a presentation builder at the time.
PowerPoint 2004 brought some help, with soft drop shadows and better tools, but even then it had issues with PDF’s, and the only transparent image format supported was PNG (that may still be the case, I haven’t tested PPT 2008′s image import fully). Enter PowerPoint 2008. Take shadows for example. As a Keynote theme builder, I often get e-mails asking me if my themes can be recolored. Blog Archive » Peter Corke creates fix for PowerPoint export. Posted by Ken Drake | Posted in Tips | Posted on 02-04-2008 Keynote as a presentation app has visual effects and an ease of use that makes creating a presentation fun! Unfortunately, most of the population is still stuck with having to use PowerPoint, so we get a LOT of use out of Keynote’s PowerPoint export.
Even so, there are still some maddening results from what appears to be a simple process. For example, while .pict files aren’t as prevalent under OSX, there are some cases where copying from certain apps (like Firefox) will insert a .pict file into your presentation when you paste. Since everything’s still under OSX, there’s no problem. The command-line tools that Peter has created will manipulate the images AND Keynote’s XML for you. These commands alter the format of your images and the information in the Keynote file’s critical XML.
You can find out more and download the Python scripts from his website. Group conversations around images, docs and videos. Thumbstacks.com - Making and Sharing Presentations on the Web | Learning Online Info. Captivate. Keynote Adventurer's Presentation Themes - Ceate Dazzling Presentations. Keynote Adventurer's Presentation Themes - Create Dazzling Presentations - Use Objects and Backgrounds. Blog Archive » Keynote Adventurer releases Progress Bars. Blog Archive » Techspansion releases VisualHub 1.1.5. Posted by Ken Drake | Posted in General | Posted on 10-23-2006 VisualHub allows you to convert many different types of media from one format to another. While the first thing that comes up in many users minds is how can they leverage that to repurpose commercial content, for the Keynote user, this is an app you can use to convert most video files you find, be they .avi, .wmv, .mpg or others to QuickTime compatible files that can playback happily in Keynote.
On the export side, you can create a non-interactive presentation, export to QuickTime, and then recompress it to .wmv or .mpg in order to be more compatible. It makes use of open source tools (and the developer gives the alterations made to the open source code back to the community!) And wraps them into what has to be one of the most intuitive interfaces for video compression that rivals tools that cost much more.