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impressive, prezi and other ways to kill PowerPoint

I’ve to admit, I haven’t used PowerPoint for 4 years, mostly because no one wanted me to present anything. Times have changed, I had to do 4 presentations in one week lately. Being forced to communicate through slides, I experienced a bit, and here’s my conclusion.
The first presentation was built using Keynote, which is part [...]

Still alive and well

But just busy doing _work_. It’s fun, but it’s keeping me from blogging the way I’d like to. What happened in the meantime? First of all my MacBook pretended to die, as I wrote here. I figured out yesterday that it was only the new harddisk refusing the work. So now I got a new [...]

RIP, Macbook

So this is great news on a monday morning. Just before I started to work my MacBook died. There was nothing I could do for it. The CPU-Fan stopped rotating at about 9:50am. May it rest in peace.

Windows 7 Superbar vs. Mac OS’ Dock

In case you haven’t heard about, since today, Microsoft’s Windows 7, the successor of Vista is available as a free download. Of course, it’s just a beta, and maybe they do it to distract a bit from not-so-well performing Vista, but anyway, if I had a PC, I’d certainly give it a try. But because [...]

Finally ( after years ) DRM-free music in iTunes

Actually it’s nothing that’s pulling me off my chair, just because it’s not that hard to get digital music without copy protection. But I’m a bit impressed that Apple is actually the first legal music provider to sell music without any DRM system. 
Already bought songs can be updated for something around 30 cents, which certainly [...]