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Nov 10, 2014

Stains on MBP Retina display

I have a recent 15" MacBook Pro with Retina display and the anti-reflective coating of the screen comes of, like described in this thread on the Apple support forum. I owned many Macs before without screen problems, and I have not changed my hand washing, food consumption…

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Jul 7, 2014

PPT Roomba

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

May 7, 2014

Adobe Voice

Adobe launched a new iPad app, Adobe Voice, that enables you to create narrated story videos. There are many apps that help you build animated videos, but this is one of the best I have seen.

It is incredibly simple to use (unlike most of Adobe software), with a beautiful user…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Mar 24, 2014

Two screens

There are two adjustments in my IT setup that hugely increased my productivity: 1) move to a huge monitor, 2) add another monitor making a total of 3 screens: 2 big ones, 1 small one.

In this article, it is argued that 2 screens actually reduce productivity. I agree if you use the second one to check on…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Feb 12, 2014

Is the tablet love affair over?

A partner in VC firm Andreesen Horrowitz confesses that his love affair with the tablet is over. People will stick to a desktop device the laptop and a pocket device, the phone (which will get slightly bigger).

Putting things in context of presentation design (leaving…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Feb 5, 2014

Scribling

I keep on looking for a good electronic solution for note taking, doodling, and scribbling. None of them are perfect. A new option has been added recently.

A good note taking solution needs to combine a number of things:

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 20, 2014

Minority report screen

See this presentation screen by DVE Telepresence (auto-play alert), it allows you to move PowerPoint slide objects in the style of the film Minority Report. What do you think? I am afraid that more sophisticated screen technology will not turn humans into better story tellers.

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Dec 27, 2013

Designing on a MacBook Pro

After a second hard disk crash (long live Dropbox) I decided to write off my 17" MacBook Pro, and upgrade to the new 15" one with a retina display.

Buying a new computer used to generate the same level of excitement people experience when upgrading their mobile phones today…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Nov 4, 2013

Crappy screen, crappy impression

When you invite people over in your office and you run a pitch presentation on a 10 year old screen with a stretched aspect ratio, pixelated images, and burned in colours you are not leaving a very good impression.

LCD screens are not very expensive today, and the…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Sep 22, 2013

iOS7 and PowerPoint templates

Most PowerPoint template designers think that what you put on the empty template page sets the look and feel of the presentation. Gradients, watermarks, logos, color bands. I have long been arguing that the template can just be a blank white page, what sets the look and feel…