This animation was inspired by Glen Millar at the PowerPoint Live 2009 Conference. The local file works perfectly. At SlideBoom, the sweeping hand is shifted down a little and goes slightly outside the circle at the bottom. Must be something with the way they process the files.
Nothing but PowerPoint here. A circle, an arrow and a series of “rotate” animations.
I’m trying a new editor for my blog. This is Windows Live Writer, a free component of Vista and Windows 7. Using this program, I can create new blog posts from a stand-alone application and then publish the post when I am finished.
The editor looks great, and because it is not running on my old, tired, slow server, it is quick.
This is a full test, with an image and the whole nine yards. I have had problems with the latest version of the WordPress editor. When I right-align an image, it goofs everything up. I have to go into HTML mode and fix that tags so that the image is actually right-aligned. I’m not going to do that with the above image. If it looks funny, it’s because this editor couldn’t do any better than the built in one.
This is cool. I have added the Flickr Image plugin. So now I can search all of Flickr or just my photos on Flickr and insert images directly into my blog posts. Maybe there is a WordPress plugin for this? I will have to look. SO far, the Writer plugin works great.
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Update: The image alignment worked perfectly. I am also editing my post from Live Writer. This is cool.
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.
It’s incredible if you can get into the site.
About a month ago I signed up to host a Windows 7 launch party. Officially, Microsoft will release Windows 7 on Octobery 22. Those selected to host a party are suppose to have a party within a week after the launch. My party will be on October 25.
I received a nice box of goodies today from Microsoft including party favors, balloons, napkins, playing card, a jigsaw puzzle and Windows 7 tote bags. Most importantly the box also included a Signature Edition of Windows 7 Ultimate. There were actually two DVDs in the box: 32bit and 64bit.
The instructions said to install Windows 7 right away. The host needs to be well versed in the new operating system features before the party gets here. I wasted no time in getting started with the installation. My Dell Studio 17 is less than six months old and runs Windows Vista Home Premium. I did something I never do… an upgrade (sorry Paul Thurrot).
The Studio 17 is my main laptop. It is packed with everything: pictures, video, music, software and all my documents. A pre-installation scan said there were 930,000 files on the hard drive. I then received a warning that this could take a few hours. No big deal. I had other computers to use while the upgrade progressed.
Before I started, I told Mesh to go offline. Otherwise I left everything running including Symantec Antivirus. The upgrade took five hours but worked perfectly! As soon as everything finished, I logged in and Mesh immediately grabbed all the files I had created while the installation progressed.
I have been using the Beta of Windows 7 for many months. It has worked well even on my oldest computers. Now that I’m officially using the production version, it looks great. This is my first blog post from my upgraded computer. Plan to see many more.