I recently had frustrations with presentations written using MS Powerpoint; I’m not even going to mention KeyNote as it is only available on a Mac. [LibreOffice](http://www.libreoffice.org/) is my WYSIWYG editor on my Linux machine for writing quick and nicely formatted content. I also have MS Office [installed](http://blog.nguyenvq.com/2010/07/23/705/) on my machine using [WINE](http://www.winehq.org/). I sometimes use read more »
I use [LaTeX Beamer](http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/) whenever I write a a presentation because 1. I’m familiar with LaTeX and want to keep up with the skillset, 2. I prefer to write in plain text, especially in emacs, and 3. I don’t have to spend time working on the how the presentation looks and just have to worry read more »
On a Mac, creating a video slideshow with some pictures is easy with iPhoto and iMovie. I haven’t found similar programs on the Linux side (yet). I mean, there are many photo manager apps such as F-Spot and Shotwell that can create a quick slideshow from the selected pictures, but they don’t export the slideshow read more »
I was reading this blog post on Revolutions Computing’s blog and discovered the vcasmo service, a way to post a presentation or video with the slides right next to it. This is DEFINITELY something I will use. Often times I watch talks or presentation videos online and most of the time the videos are either read more »
Google sites is great. It allows for easy website creation, and easy group collaboration on projects, wiki, intranets. What am I using google sites for? Well, for the non-profit youth group that i volunteer with at my local church, I created: 1. A webpage for the group, where i mapped the domain that we registered read more »
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