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Hoping to see new Apple products announced Monday? Well, there’s a legion of Apple’s Keynote presentation software users who’ll be hoping to see evide... 9 Jun 2013 | 02:59 pm
It’s that time of the year again. The time of the year when expectations for new Apple products and services reaches a fever pitch. This year it’s especially intense because expectations seem to be so...
From “beleaguered” to “secretive”: how the tech media distorts how Apple operates. But substitute one other word, and you’ll “get” how Apple really op... 22 Apr 2013 | 07:29 am
When I’m not giving workshops on presentation skills, or on IT for health professionals, I’m working one on one with patients who wish to better manage certain unwanted behaviours and feelings. The br...
If a dumb shmo like me sitting in far away Australia got it so right about the iPad in 2010, why didn’t those smarties on Wall Street and in Silicon V... 4 Apr 2013 | 10:38 am
Three years ago this weekend, the iPad was released for sale in the USA. In Australia, it came in July, with the 3G configuration. I went back to what I wrote about the iPad after its announcement at ...
Updating the Shaking book effect – better or worse than the original? 2 Jan 2013 | 05:15 am
I’ve had sufficient comments and time on my hands to play a little with this opening slide for most of my presentations. I altered the video’s outline to be less “ripped”, made it tumble rather than p...
The Shaking Book effect in Keynote 14 Nov 2012 | 05:01 am
Thank you to all those who’ve come by to visit my website following the podcast with David and Katie over at the Mac Power Users’ site. I thought as a reward I would post a video of the “Shaking Book”...
Presentation Magic interviewed about presentation workflow, Keynote and helpful presentation equipment on the 5×5 podcast: Mac Power Users 13 Nov 2012 | 06:16 am
I had an opportunity yesterday to be interviewed by lawyers, bloggers and Mac Power users David Sparks and Katie Floyd for their Mac Power Users podcast on the 5 x 5 podcast network. Our subject was P...
Apple to livestream its October 23 Special Event live over AppleTV – as I asked for back in March, 2012 23 Oct 2012 | 04:31 pm
Back earlier this year, I wrote a simple headline (below) suggesting that if Apple could stream Paul McCartney over its AppleTV arrangement, why not return us to the 1990s and stream its keynotes? Wel...
PayPal Here, a card reader and app for taking payment on your iPhone or iPad finally comes to Australia, getting in before Square and Apple’s likely c... 2 Aug 2012 | 07:46 am
Some time back, I introduced a video from Square in my “IT for Psychologists” workshops which I offer in Australia. At the time, Square was just beyond being a startup. Square offered a small hardware...
Dear Technology Section Editor: Ten ways you know your tech journalists should be switched from covering Apple Inc. to say, Microsoft or RIM 11 Jul 2012 | 04:15 pm
Dear Technology Section Editor , Mainstream Media Publication, Anytown, Anywhere Dear Sir/Madam, After many years of observing your publication in operation and as it attempts to make the transiti...
With Mountain Lion a few weeks away, and Retina Display Macbooks showing a very “uncinematic” pixelated Keynote, can an update be very far away? More ... 10 Jul 2012 | 10:17 pm
I took a recent opportunity to drop into my nearest Apple store at Chadstone, a major shopping centre in southeastern Melbourne. It was the first Apple store to open in Melbourne and even at 11am midw...
