Greetings Radio KoL listeners!
When Orange gets ’round to delivering my email, there’ll be some exciting hat- and Faustus-based pics up at my moblog.
Also of interest is this week’s antic, helping you de-Microsoft-ify your life. I’ve just done a presentation for my course, and Powerpoint was really getting me down – so I switched to Eric Meyer’s standards-based slideshow package, S5.
You create all the slides in a single web-page-like XHTML document, with styling controlled by standard CSS. A bunch of Javascript behind the scenes does the slideshow-ing bits and the whole thing is extremely bloat-free. Use Firefox for best results, and OS X for the smoothest of onscreen typestyling.
The best consequence of using S5 is the remarkable ease with which alterations can be made, a whole presentation residing in a single text file. If you know enough (X)HTML and CSS to code a web page, you can easily get started with S5. Have a look at the intro slideshow to get an idea of how things work.
One less barrier to a Microsoft-free system!
