Archive for May 24th, 2007

Here’s a product of research in “motion of text” and how that motion can add an emotional element to the text even when no sound is present. I spend a lot of time talking with my students talking about motion mainly in PowerPoint. If the default actions in PowerPoint are used, the result is usually distracting. If some of these kinetic effects can be added to a PowerPoint presentation, the end result could increase the audience’s emotional response making the event more memorable.

The author of the movie has a free program that can be used to create presentations. You can find it on the Carnegie Mellon website.

Back in Tip #3 I talked about using Windows Explorer.  Here is an extra tip that will help you locate what you are looking for even quicker.

In addition to using the Folder button, also select the Detail view.  This will list all the critical properties of your files: name, size, type and date modified.

By clicking the column heading (Name – Size - Type – Date Modified), all files will be sorted by the selected column.  A second click will reverse the order first/last or last/first of the column.

Using the Details view can help you quickly find the newest file (sort by date) or the biggest file (sort by size).  You can even make sense of the files on your Desktop with this view using Windows Explorer.

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