Archive for July, 2009

How to Quickly Produce DVDs in Windows Vista and Windows 7 (VOL026)

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Welcome back to the podcast!

This week’s episode: How to quickly produce DVDs in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

For the past few episodes, we have walked you through creating photo albums and presentations with music using Microsoft PowerPoint. Now it’s time to take that final leap of evolution:  creating a DVD! (more…)

Adding Sound to Your PowerPoint Presentations (VOL025)

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Welcome back to the podcast!

This week: Adding Sound to Your PowerPoint Presentations.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why would anyone want to add spoken words to a presentation of images? Seems like overkill, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not. (more…)

Photo Album Slide Shows in PowerPoint (VOL024)

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Welcome back to the podcast!

This week’s edition: Photo Album Slide Shows in PowerPoint

The problem: Too many pictures to insert into a presentation one at a time.

The Solution (for PowerPoint 2002 – 2007):

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What do Psychics, Family, and Microsoft have in common? (VOL023)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Welcome back to the Podcast!

This week’s edition…

“What do Psychics, Family, and Microsoft have in common?”

Well…

They all seem to know me pretty well, or at least they think they know me well enough to correct me as I speak or write, or try to finish my sentences.

Let’s use my son as an example. He has discovered that when he asks a question like, “Daddy, can I stay up and [insert fun activity here]?”, my typical response tends to be: “Well, once you have finished [chore assigned by me], we can talk about it, but it might be too far past your bed time.” He knows that this response can be substituted with: “Probably not, it is way past your bed time and you haven’t even showered yet.”

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Writing with OOMFF! (One of My Favorite Features)

Friday, July 10th, 2009


Decoding my students’ assignments in the days of handwritten papers was almost always a chore. Sometimes it was because of bad or cramped handwriting. Occasionally it was due to loud and obnoxious ink colors. Every so often, however, I would get students who, in their haste, rearranged the letters in their words. Those students also often used inventive and unusual abbreviations. Their only goal was to save time, but the result was a paper that made me feel like a translator who needed to decipher text from a language with which I was unfamiliar.

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"It's like a shammy, it's like a towel, it's DiskWOW!" (VOL022)

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Welcome back to the podcast! This week’s edition…

It’s like a shammy, it’s like a towel, it’s DiskWOW!

eSupport here for DiskWOW!

Did you know that over 80% of all computer users suffer from drive space issues? Not to worry, we have a great tip for you!

How would you like it if you could see how full your hard drive is getting? Would you be confused on what you should pitch to free up space? This crisis befuddles most of us; but be befuddled no more! Try our patented DiskWOW!

How much would you pay to clean up that old drive and breathe new life back into your computer? Would you pay $5, $10, $19.95 plus shipping and handling? Why pay at all?

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