DIY Earphone System Posted on December 6, 2010 by saya It doesn’t mean that your earphones are no longer usable when something is wrong with them. In fact with this DIY Earphone System, each part and every wire of which is detachable and replaceable, everybody can easily “fix” their earphones to make them work again. Designer: Choi Hyong-Suk
How to Design a Professional PowerPoint Presentation Our recent series of tips on presentation design outlined some generic rules and ideas that you can live by to create better, more professional presentation. Today we want to follow that up by taking you through the actual process of designing a presentation from start to finish. We’ll break down every step of the design process, from choosing colors and images to using whitespace properly. After reading through this you should be all set to design your own beautiful presentation slides that will put your coworkers to shame. A Word About Content I usually make a big deal about content preceding design, and presentations are no exception. The reason that I bring this up is that I don’t really have an actual presentation in mind for this project. Choosing A Color Scheme Before I even open Photoshop (yes, I design PowerPoint/Keynote slides in Photoshop and drop them in, thought it helps if you do the te), I want to find a color scheme on which to base my entire design. Choosing a Font
10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.2 Last week we looked at part one of our two part series on designing better presentations. We learned practical tips on using photography, typography, color and more to create stunning results. Today we’ll wrap things up with tips six through ten and teach you how simplifying your designs can lead to drastically improved results. Let’s get started! #6 Simpler is Better This is a major stumbling block for non-designers. After all, if the presentation slides contain all the information begin conveyed, then why would the audience even need a speaker? I’ve seen far too many people give presentations with slides that look like the one below: You might think I’m being facetious with my design but trust me I’ve seen slides that were far worse. Again, remember that your speech is the reason you’re up in front of people. Use your slides to grab and hold the audience’s attention through attractive visuals. Notice how the slide below pulls you in with an incomplete statement. #10 Make ‘em Laugh 1.
DIY: Wine Bottle Light & Wit & Whistle November 3rd, 2009 This past spring Daniel and I went on a road trip from San Francisco to the Grand Canyon. Along the way we stopped at Chateau Julien for a wine tasting. You’ll need: an empty wine bottle a drill safety glasses and gloves (just in case the bottle breaks) 1/2″ glass drill bit masking tape short strand of Christmas lights (with a plug only on one end) How to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Stockholm Singapore SF Top Cities for Startups and Business Two new studies hit recently that take a look at the best cities around the world for startups and business opportunities. Fortune magazine went on a search for “cities that share the San Francisco Bay Area’s potent combination of creativity and capitalism” and came up with seven up-and-comers to keep an eye on. Meanwhile, Business Insider looked for “a city’s comprehensive potential for business across ten economic indicators” that range from intellectual capital to natural environment and identified 27 heavyweights (predominantly in the world’s largest cities). So which cities come out on top? Stockholm and Singapore are the only two cities that appear on both lists. Fortune points to Stockholm’s recent startup tech history and government spending on R&D (3.6% of GDP) as well as its business-friendly policies and academic outputs. The Fortune list was comprised of: Zurich, Switzerland Stockholm, Sweden Singapore Dublin, Ireland Copenhagen, Denmark Oulu, Finland Eindhoven, Netherlands
Tutorial-z | The most detailed tutorials on the web How to Restore an Abused iPhone (or any gadget) After a few months of use, our gorgeous new gadgets incur a fair share of dings and scratches. However, all is not lost! Learn how one man bought a horribly abused iPhone on Ebay and polished it up to look brand new. Steps to Resurrection: Photos: Unfortunately, the Apple logo is erased in the process, but I’d say it’s a worthwhile sacrifice for the outstanding results. LCD Repair: The LCD repair is a slightly more delicate process since we have to remove the entire front of the device and expose its circuitry innards. Materials: Replacement iPhone LCDCompressed Air ( or bike pump) E-xacto blade ( or something flat and thin)Small Phillips screwdriverSuction cup With this detailed tutorial, just about anyone can refurbish their scratched and damaged gadgets. Final Results: Things to do with your new iPhone:
Making Advanced Analytics Work for You Artwork: Tamar Cohen, The Big Quick, 2010, silk screen collage on vintage book pages, 40" x 50" Big data and analytics have rocketed to the top of the corporate agenda. Executives look with admiration at how Google, Amazon, and others have eclipsed competitors with powerful new business models that derive from an ability to exploit data. They also see that big data is attracting serious investment from technology leaders such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Meanwhile, the tide of private-equity and venture-capital investments in big data continues to swell. The trend is generating plenty of hype, but we believe that senior leaders are right to pay attention. Even so, our experience reveals that most companies are unsure how to proceed. Many CEOs, too, recall their experiences with customer relationship management in the mid-1990s, when new CRM software products often prompted great enthusiasm. Given this history, we empathize with executives who are cautious about big data. 1.
The Usability of Passwords (by @baekdal) #tips Security companies and IT people constantly tells us that we should use complex and difficult passwords. This is bad advice, because you can actually make usable, easy to remember and highly secure passwords. In fact, usable passwords are often far better than complex ones. So let's dive into the world of passwords, and look at what makes a password secure in practical terms. Update: Read the FAQ (updated January 2011) Update - April 21, 2011: This article was "featured" on Security Now, here is my reply! How to hack a password The work involved in hacking passwords is very simple. Asking: Amazingly the most common way to gain access to someone's password is simply to ask for it (often in relation with something else). When is a password secure? You cannot protect against "asking" and "guessing", but you can protect yourself from the other forms of attacks. The measure of security must then be "how many password requests can the automated program make - e.g. per second". Like these: It takes:
Presentation Design 101: Making Data Compelling in a Presentation This post was written by Aristotle Presentation philosopher, teacher, in search of the best gyro. What are the first words that come to mind when someone says “data”? Probably something along the lines of ‘boring’, ‘tedious’ and ‘complicated’. There’s little chance ‘exciting’ or ‘engaging’ came to mind. Data and statistics have something of a bad rap, and understandably so. Below are several slides from a recent presentation in which we worked on both content and design, and all of them serve as great examples of how to make data compelling in a presentation. Immediately after glancing at this slide, the audience knows what fact is the most important on it, and that’s the number: 80%. The message here is that “85% of all risk comes from 5% of the population.” The message point here is: ”Over the next decade… Let’s take a look at these two slides together.
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