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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 [...]

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 [...]