[Osx-nutters] Looks like I need to avoid powerpoint

[David Cake]

At 3:50 PM -0800 5/12/07, John Musbach wrote:
>On Dec 5, 2007 1:28 AM, Jared Earle <jearle at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html
>
>+1 for OpenOffice

	Sadly, most of Guys rant is about simply bad presentations, 
that only happen to be created using Powerpoint, but could just as 
easily be created using Keynote, or any other presentation software.
	Nothing in Powerpoint, or any other software, particularly 
encourages people giving the presentation to have too many slides, to 
have too much small text, or go on for too long. But they do it 
anyway.
	Though Guy does make one snide remark
>Sure, you have an hour time slot, but you're using a Windows laptop, 
>so it will take forty minutes to make it work with the projector.

	Thats why you use Keynote.
	In my experience, if you have a Mac, its quite different - 
you spend 30 minutes finding the DVI->VGA adapter that you forgot to 
bring, or they swore to you they had but didn't, etc. And then 2 
minutes making your Mac work with the projector once you've found the 
adapter.
	The real reason you use something other than Powerpoint is 
you don't spend 2 minutes of your presentation apologising for movies 
that don't work, mysteriously upside down graphics, etc.
	Cheers
		David