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Glasses over contacts, send your email address in if you’re going to MacWorld and want to meet up, Pat Dengler Your Mac Doctor shares one of her hardware secrets. FLV Crunch saves the day moving VOB to dv files. Book recommendation: Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo. Loving shareware developers, especially John Clayton of coderage-software.com and Mike Yenco of yenco.com. Full review of vector-drawing program Intaglio from purgatorydesign.com. Soundgate iPod unit for Acura/Honda/Goldwings from 2003-2010 at logjamelectronics.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about Patch Tuesday’s mildness this month, a zero day exploit from Adobe adobe.com/support/security. Try PDFCreator from sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator and Foxit Reader from download.cnet.com/Foxit-Reader instead of Adobe products. Zero day exploit in all IE’s at microsoft.com/technet/security and rounds it out with a phishing attack on MobileMe users at tuaw.com. In our first main topic Bart explains how to enable a free SSL Certificate to protect your WordPress login, and in the second he explains how cool Services and Automator are in Show Leopard. See also MacBreak on Services at pixelcorps.tv/macbreak235
Trusted Windows (PC) download Polygon Cruncher 12.60. Virus-free and 100% clean download. Get Polygon Cruncher alternative downloads. Flv Crunch For Windows free download - Windows 10, Riva FLV Encoder, Riva FLV Player, and many more programs. Download crunch - wordlist generator for free. Crunch is a wordlist generator where you can specify a standard character set or a character set you specify. Crunch can generate all possible combinations and permutations. (Windows & Mac) While a modest program, FLV Crunch is able to convert to a wide variety of formats, such as mpg, vob, mp4, mov, dv, avi, 3gp, mka, mkv, mp3, wma, wmv.
Listen to the Podcast Once (1 hr 23 min)
Today is Sunday January 17th, 2010 and this is show number 241. So I’m old. Not sure you realize that because of my youthful demeanor, but it’s true, I can prove it, because I need reading glasses. Everyone else just gracefully goes out to Costco and buys a 10 pack of the ugly little reading glasses and distributes them around their house and office and moves on with their lives, but this bugs the daylights out of me. Maybe it’s because Steve mocks me every time I take them out, I’m not sure. He tries to pretend that he’s not old too, but since he’s only 4 hours younger than me we know that’s not true. He also says he’s not getting grey hair, that those are blond hairs, but I’m not buyin’ that either.
My friend Diane came up with an intriguing solution. We both have nasty prescriptions with bad astigmatisms so we only get good distance vision with our contact lenses, not with regular glasses. Her solution was to get glasses that are actually clear in the middle and progressive lenses down below for close and mid-distance vision. Right, she wears glasses AND contacts. I thought this sounded so great that I went to the eye doctor to get the same thing. YOu also need to realize though that I’m not authorized to choose my glasses on my own. Jeannie at my eye doctor usually picks them out but frequently my friend Nancy goes with me to help. Today Nancy couldn’t be there, so I thought, hey, I’ve got my iPhone with me, I should be able to do some live streaming to her!
so I started with Qik, set it to record and turned the iPhone so the camera was facing me, then I called Nancy on my Blackberry. This was a complete fail. It turns out Qik didn’t live stream, it just created a recording on my phone that I could later upload. How lame! Even lamer is when I uploaded it, the movie never starts to play on Qik’s website, even though the video plays beautifully on my iPhone. Phhhbbbtttt.
Not to be daunted, we switched over to Ustream. Now technically I can’t call this a COMPLETE fail but it sure was dodgy. My image only moved every minute or so, but the audio was excellent. And since there actually was a picture, she got to see my proposed glasses. It was an awful lot of bandwidth for a really stupid reason and almost complete failure (I coulda mailed her a GOOD picture much faster), but it sure was fun to try and do it the geeky way. Nancy was a great sport about it too.
MacWorld
If you’re going to MacWorld, be sure to send me an email so I can add you to the NosillaCastaways Google calendar. I’ve settled on a meetup date and place – we’re going to Jillians at around 6pm right after the last big event on Thursday. I’ll give more details to the folks who sign up for the calendar, so be sure to let me know if you’ll be there!
Pat Dengler – The Mac Doctor
Friday night I had my good friend Pat Dengler over for dinner. You remember Pat, she’s Your Mac Doctor, the one who kept me from jumping off a tall building after I set a magnet on top of the hard drive in my brand spanking new MacBook Pro while transferring all of my data to it. Remember that? I did short interview with her that I think you might enjoy…
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Video is Hard
It’s possible I’ve mentioned before that I think video is hard. That really came to light this week with Steve and his new adventures in Final Cut Express. With help from Don McAllister and Matt Hillyard, he got over the hump of actually getting started pulling in the three hours of video he took on our trip to Mexico. In addition to his footage and my photos for the slide show (that’ll be another hour), we also paid for a DVD of our ziplining adventure. They were very specific at Los Veranos Canopy Tours that we could take the photos and video we bought and do anything we wanted with them. So first Steve used Mac the Ripper to rip the DVD into VOB files on his Mac. Next we had to turn the VOB files into something that Final Cut Express could read. There’s a lot of options, many tools would create an mp4 file, but even if you encode with h.264 (the best encoding algorithm out there today in terms of quality vs. size), you’re still compressing the video when you do that. That means when he exports his 3 hour tour movie, that same video will get compressed again, so it’s not ideal. And remember that when Canopy tours put it on a DVD, they already compressed it once, so you’d end up compressing it three times.
What he really wanted was to convert the VOB file to a dv file which is uncompressed (I think). He started with Handbrake from handbrake.fr which according to what he read on the internets should have been able to convert to dv format, but I think it was greyed out. Ok, next up he tried MPEG Streamclip from squared5.com but it said that he would have to go to Apple and buy the MPEG import tool. That made no sense since MPEG Streamclip was able to import the vob file just fine, it couldn’t export, so we abandoned that whole path. We even tried VideoMonkey from videomonkey.org, the open source version of the wonderful VisualHub that is no longer – but even VideoMonkey didn’t have the vob to dv output that Steve needed.
At this point Steve’s getting discouraged, everything about this new workflow seems to be problematic and he’s not getting any joy out of video production now. I could tell something wasn’t going well because he suddenly got very productive around the house, replacing the carriage lights out in front, buying new jacks at the hardware store so he can more easily rotate his tires. I told him it looked just like when I had finals in college, I had the cleanest bathroom of anyone! I didn’t want making his videos to be like finals week, it’s supposed to bring him joy.
So we sat down together and started an exhaustive search for the tool to solve his problem and I’m delighted to say that we found it, and we found it for free. I want to tell you where we found it because that’s almost as important as what we found. download.com is a site run by CNET, where they vet everything they post there. If it’s on CNET’s download.com site you know it’s virus free. Many products show an editor’s rating and all of them show user ratings. I trust download.com, especially when recommending software to my Windows brethren.Flv Crunch For Windows 10 Pro
Enough teasing, the software we found to convert VOB to dv format is called FLV Crunch. It runs on Intel and PowerPC platforms from OS 10.1 through Snow Leopard. It’s had 125K downloads and has a user rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars. I gave it a 5 out of 5 and a rave review because it worked!
FLV Crunch has a crappy little OS 7 icon that’s actually kind of endearing, and oddly the listed vendor site is geocities.com. this is odd because Geocities was shut down just recently, the link isn’t even to a specific Geocities account, and the software was just updated on CNET’s site just 5 days ago! It almost feels like a joke is going on here and I just don’t get it.
anyway, joke or not, the FLV Crunch opens with a format pulldown containing mpeg1 and 2, mp4, quicktime’s mov, .avi, 3gp for mobile phones, our beloved dv digital video format, wmv, flash in flv, mp3 and aac audio only. that’s a pretty darn good set of export formats! Next up you can choose to wreck your video by messing with the frames per second and bitrates, which is always a great way to lose an afternoon. Those options aren’t available on the dv output format luckily. You can change the resolution if you like, or tell FLV Crunch to keep the original value. It also comes with standard presents like iPod, High Def, Standard def and VGA. That’s not a lot of options compared to something like Handbrake or VisualHub or VideoMonkey, with those you get things like iPhone, AppleTV, even Zune I think. For us those two characters dv were all we wanted.
So next up add the source files, set a destination folder and you’re done. Steve threw in his vob files and it took a while but he got his dv files out at last. And that’s when things go worse! He dropped the dv files into Final Cut Express and instead of the perfectly good soundtrack that was on the dv files (which we tested in Quicktime before the import to Final Cut Express! Now we were really discouraged, we’d been at this for hours and hours. Luckily the interwebs were on our side yet again, turns out there’s some weird thing with Final Cut Express that sometimes it has to be kick started to render the audio correctly, a simple command-r and then a reasonable wait and the audio was in there perfectly. Whew!
It’s been a long road to travel for Steve but I think, I dearly hope we’re over the hump now and he can have fun with video production again. Stay tuned…
Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo
For Christmas I got a terrific book called The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo. I heard about it on the Real Deal Episode 181 when Tom Merritt and Rafe Needleman interviewed Carmine about the book. It’s a great episode of the Real Deal and if you haven’t seen or heard the show you should go check it out in any case.
The reason I’m bringing up this book is because it’s fascinating. We all know about the Reality Distortion Field that Steve Jobs creates when he does a presentation, but I always assumed it was something they pushed through the ventilation system or something. I’m sure they do that at the Apple Stores because I saw a guy once minding his own business walking down the mall and suddenly his body whipped sideways and he flew into the Apple Store. Sure, it’s possible he just noticed he was about to pass his intended destination but I think it was the reality distortion field.
Carmine Gallo has clearly spent a lot of time studying the methods Steve Jobs uses to create his dynamic and passionate presentations, and he actually breaks them down into practical steps you can follow to try and create some of the magic Steve brings to a speech. I’m about to do some presentations in my day job to some really big audiences, and while that doesn’t give me the cold chills normal people get at the thought (you HAVE figured out at this point that I like to be the center of attention, right?) I still figure I can improve my techniques. In particular I refuse to ever again give a PowerPoint presentation with a white background and black text in bullet form with long sentences. I’m just not going to do it. I’m also not going to start throwing in gimmicky fly in slides that twirl just to get attention and throw people off the message.
Instead I’m going to learn from Carmine Gallo and Steve Jobs how to more effectively draw in my audience and impart on them some of the enthusiasm I have for my topics. Luckily the hardest part is easy for me – Carmine says that you have to be passionate about your topic, and I only pick subjects about which I’m passionate! If I’m not excited about something, I refuse to stand up and talk about it, and I refuse to take on the assignments. I know everyone doesn’t have that luxury but for some reason I’ve gotten away with it for over thirty years.
I know this book is working because I can’t sleep after I’ve been reading it. I find myself going over and over ideas for my talks, working on tag lines and thinking of ways to get rid of material on my slides. If you do any kind of presentations and you’d like to see if you can better capture the imagination of your audience and suck them into your madness, I highly recommend The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo.
Zooom/2
Have I ever mentioned how much I love shareware developers? I really really do love them. I had two experiences this week that continued to cement that opinion. Back on show #206 in May of last year I reviewed an application called Zooom/2. The main thing I use Zooom/2 for is the ability to move a window by grabbing it anywhere. You’d be amazed how often you’ll use this. My Twitter client du jour, Twhirl frequently misbehaves and falls off the screen where I simply can’t grab the top of it, but no worries, since Zooom/2 is running in the background, with a little key combo I can grab it anywhere.
Anyway, the reason i bring this up is I was having one annoyance with Zooom/2 – the developer, John Clayton, updates the product pretty often which is very cool, but every single time I get an update i have to re-enter my license code. It was driving me berserk. So finally after about the 15th time I wrote him an email. He got back to me INSTANTLY, and explained that this has been driving him crazy too – because he can’t replicate it! He’s had a few people have the same problem but because he can’t make it happen on his end he can’t figure it out. He very politely asked me if I had the energy to do some experiments for him, running logging so we could crack the code.
Well you know me, this was like asking me if I wanted a hot fudge sunday! Of course I would play! We did about 25 experiments, writing back and forth as I ran the tests…and in the end the problem went away. It was very aggravating because of course we didn’t solve it for anyone else! But the main point is that instead of being annoyed at some whiny user, John was delighted that I’d written, apologetic that I’d had problems, and asked for my help with the product. That to me is perfection. Let me give him another plug – check out Zooom/2 at coderage-software.com In this case I love the software, but I’ve actually met the loveliest people when I didn’t even like their software – gracious and understanding and truly wanting to learn what they could do to improve.
iKeeper
The second example is Mike Yenco from yenco.com who wrote iKeeper. I did a review of iKeeper over on Tim Verpoorten’s Mac Reviewcast this week. I had one little question about the software, and wrote to Mike and he wrote a 2 page letter to me explaining his philosophy in what he’d developed, told me how much he adores Macs and Mac podcasts (he had me there). It wasn’t so much about the product but it was just delightful getting to know someone this way. The Mac community really does rock, you know?
ScreenSteps
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but we all know video can be even more powerful. So what if you could teach people things using words, pictures, AND video? You can do that with the latest version of ScreenSteps from ScreenSteps.com. You can write specific instructions explaining the why of each step, drop in an image showing the exact menu you’re talking about, and then embed a video screencast so you can really dig into the complexities of your subject. You’ll be a hero with your co-workers, your employees, and your customers. I even use ScreenSteps to teach relatives so I don’t have to repeat things over and over – give them a ScreenSteps document and they can pull it out every time they forget what you taught them. For only $40 for the standard version or $80 for the pro version of ScreenSteps you can have this kind of fun too. Heck, knock off 25% using the coupon code NOSILLA and it’s even less expensvie! Don’t forget to check out the educational and enterprise licensing too. Get on over to ScreenSteps.com
Intaglio
Are you old enough to remember MacDraw? It was a vector-based drawing program for the Mac that was wildly popular from the first Macintosh in 1984, was upgraded to MacDraw Pro in the 1990s (now with color!) and Claris got hold of it and mutated it into ClarisDraw it pretty much lost favor with the Mac community. Oddly it didn’t fall out of favor because there was something better out there, but rather because it was missing features compared to the older versions. Ask any old fart Mac user about MacDraw and they’ll get misty eyed on you thinking back to those delightful days.
I called MacDraw a vector-based drawing program – that means you’re drawing circles, lines and boxes that are not just bit-mapped pixels on the page, but rather can be dragged around and have their shapes changed after the fact. Well I have good news for you, there may finally be a replacement for our beloved MacDraw. Purgatory Design at purgatorydesign.com has a product called Intaglio that they bill as the MacDraw we’ve all been looking for. The folks at Purgatory Design have been developing for the Mac since 1984 (under different names) so I think they may be onto something here.
I did my usual poke around and press buttons method, and then I added a crazy new technique I’ve been trying out – I started reading the manual. I know, it’s kind of off the wall but you wouldn’t believe how much good information you can find in there! let’s start with the results of my poking around method and then we’ll get into more depth from the manual.
Intaglio has a beautifully simple interface, but do not let that fool you. Greatland outdoors 3 room tent manual. You get a nice big area to draw with gridlines on by default, and
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Glasses over contacts, send your email address in if you’re going to MacWorld and want to meet up, Pat Dengler Your Mac Doctor shares one of her hardware secrets. FLV Crunch saves the day moving VOB to dv files. Book recommendation: Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo. Loving shareware developers, especially John Clayton of coderage-software.com and Mike Yenco of yenco.com. Full review of vector-drawing program Intaglio from purgatorydesign.com. Soundgate iPod unit for Acura/Honda/Goldwings from 2003-2010 at logjamelectronics.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about Patch Tuesday’s mildness this month, a zero day exploit from Adobe adobe.com/support/security. Try PDFCreator from sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator and Foxit Reader from download.cnet.com/Foxit-Reader instead of Adobe products. Zero day exploit in all IE’s at microsoft.com/technet/security and rounds it out with a phishing attack on MobileMe users at tuaw.com. In our first main topic Bart explains how to enable a free SSL Certificate to protect your WordPress login, and in the second he explains how cool Services and Automator are in Show Leopard. See also MacBreak on Services at pixelcorps.tv/macbreak235
Trusted Windows (PC) download Polygon Cruncher 12.60. Virus-free and 100% clean download. Get Polygon Cruncher alternative downloads. Flv Crunch For Windows free download - Windows 10, Riva FLV Encoder, Riva FLV Player, and many more programs. Download crunch - wordlist generator for free. Crunch is a wordlist generator where you can specify a standard character set or a character set you specify. Crunch can generate all possible combinations and permutations. (Windows & Mac) While a modest program, FLV Crunch is able to convert to a wide variety of formats, such as mpg, vob, mp4, mov, dv, avi, 3gp, mka, mkv, mp3, wma, wmv.
Listen to the Podcast Once (1 hr 23 min)
Today is Sunday January 17th, 2010 and this is show number 241. So I’m old. Not sure you realize that because of my youthful demeanor, but it’s true, I can prove it, because I need reading glasses. Everyone else just gracefully goes out to Costco and buys a 10 pack of the ugly little reading glasses and distributes them around their house and office and moves on with their lives, but this bugs the daylights out of me. Maybe it’s because Steve mocks me every time I take them out, I’m not sure. He tries to pretend that he’s not old too, but since he’s only 4 hours younger than me we know that’s not true. He also says he’s not getting grey hair, that those are blond hairs, but I’m not buyin’ that either.
My friend Diane came up with an intriguing solution. We both have nasty prescriptions with bad astigmatisms so we only get good distance vision with our contact lenses, not with regular glasses. Her solution was to get glasses that are actually clear in the middle and progressive lenses down below for close and mid-distance vision. Right, she wears glasses AND contacts. I thought this sounded so great that I went to the eye doctor to get the same thing. YOu also need to realize though that I’m not authorized to choose my glasses on my own. Jeannie at my eye doctor usually picks them out but frequently my friend Nancy goes with me to help. Today Nancy couldn’t be there, so I thought, hey, I’ve got my iPhone with me, I should be able to do some live streaming to her!
so I started with Qik, set it to record and turned the iPhone so the camera was facing me, then I called Nancy on my Blackberry. This was a complete fail. It turns out Qik didn’t live stream, it just created a recording on my phone that I could later upload. How lame! Even lamer is when I uploaded it, the movie never starts to play on Qik’s website, even though the video plays beautifully on my iPhone. Phhhbbbtttt.
Not to be daunted, we switched over to Ustream. Now technically I can’t call this a COMPLETE fail but it sure was dodgy. My image only moved every minute or so, but the audio was excellent. And since there actually was a picture, she got to see my proposed glasses. It was an awful lot of bandwidth for a really stupid reason and almost complete failure (I coulda mailed her a GOOD picture much faster), but it sure was fun to try and do it the geeky way. Nancy was a great sport about it too.
MacWorld
If you’re going to MacWorld, be sure to send me an email so I can add you to the NosillaCastaways Google calendar. I’ve settled on a meetup date and place – we’re going to Jillians at around 6pm right after the last big event on Thursday. I’ll give more details to the folks who sign up for the calendar, so be sure to let me know if you’ll be there!
Pat Dengler – The Mac Doctor
Friday night I had my good friend Pat Dengler over for dinner. You remember Pat, she’s Your Mac Doctor, the one who kept me from jumping off a tall building after I set a magnet on top of the hard drive in my brand spanking new MacBook Pro while transferring all of my data to it. Remember that? I did short interview with her that I think you might enjoy…
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Video is Hard
It’s possible I’ve mentioned before that I think video is hard. That really came to light this week with Steve and his new adventures in Final Cut Express. With help from Don McAllister and Matt Hillyard, he got over the hump of actually getting started pulling in the three hours of video he took on our trip to Mexico. In addition to his footage and my photos for the slide show (that’ll be another hour), we also paid for a DVD of our ziplining adventure. They were very specific at Los Veranos Canopy Tours that we could take the photos and video we bought and do anything we wanted with them. So first Steve used Mac the Ripper to rip the DVD into VOB files on his Mac. Next we had to turn the VOB files into something that Final Cut Express could read. There’s a lot of options, many tools would create an mp4 file, but even if you encode with h.264 (the best encoding algorithm out there today in terms of quality vs. size), you’re still compressing the video when you do that. That means when he exports his 3 hour tour movie, that same video will get compressed again, so it’s not ideal. And remember that when Canopy tours put it on a DVD, they already compressed it once, so you’d end up compressing it three times.
What he really wanted was to convert the VOB file to a dv file which is uncompressed (I think). He started with Handbrake from handbrake.fr which according to what he read on the internets should have been able to convert to dv format, but I think it was greyed out. Ok, next up he tried MPEG Streamclip from squared5.com but it said that he would have to go to Apple and buy the MPEG import tool. That made no sense since MPEG Streamclip was able to import the vob file just fine, it couldn’t export, so we abandoned that whole path. We even tried VideoMonkey from videomonkey.org, the open source version of the wonderful VisualHub that is no longer – but even VideoMonkey didn’t have the vob to dv output that Steve needed.
At this point Steve’s getting discouraged, everything about this new workflow seems to be problematic and he’s not getting any joy out of video production now. I could tell something wasn’t going well because he suddenly got very productive around the house, replacing the carriage lights out in front, buying new jacks at the hardware store so he can more easily rotate his tires. I told him it looked just like when I had finals in college, I had the cleanest bathroom of anyone! I didn’t want making his videos to be like finals week, it’s supposed to bring him joy.
So we sat down together and started an exhaustive search for the tool to solve his problem and I’m delighted to say that we found it, and we found it for free. I want to tell you where we found it because that’s almost as important as what we found. download.com is a site run by CNET, where they vet everything they post there. If it’s on CNET’s download.com site you know it’s virus free. Many products show an editor’s rating and all of them show user ratings. I trust download.com, especially when recommending software to my Windows brethren.Flv Crunch For Windows 10 Pro
Enough teasing, the software we found to convert VOB to dv format is called FLV Crunch. It runs on Intel and PowerPC platforms from OS 10.1 through Snow Leopard. It’s had 125K downloads and has a user rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars. I gave it a 5 out of 5 and a rave review because it worked!
FLV Crunch has a crappy little OS 7 icon that’s actually kind of endearing, and oddly the listed vendor site is geocities.com. this is odd because Geocities was shut down just recently, the link isn’t even to a specific Geocities account, and the software was just updated on CNET’s site just 5 days ago! It almost feels like a joke is going on here and I just don’t get it.
anyway, joke or not, the FLV Crunch opens with a format pulldown containing mpeg1 and 2, mp4, quicktime’s mov, .avi, 3gp for mobile phones, our beloved dv digital video format, wmv, flash in flv, mp3 and aac audio only. that’s a pretty darn good set of export formats! Next up you can choose to wreck your video by messing with the frames per second and bitrates, which is always a great way to lose an afternoon. Those options aren’t available on the dv output format luckily. You can change the resolution if you like, or tell FLV Crunch to keep the original value. It also comes with standard presents like iPod, High Def, Standard def and VGA. That’s not a lot of options compared to something like Handbrake or VisualHub or VideoMonkey, with those you get things like iPhone, AppleTV, even Zune I think. For us those two characters dv were all we wanted.
So next up add the source files, set a destination folder and you’re done. Steve threw in his vob files and it took a while but he got his dv files out at last. And that’s when things go worse! He dropped the dv files into Final Cut Express and instead of the perfectly good soundtrack that was on the dv files (which we tested in Quicktime before the import to Final Cut Express! Now we were really discouraged, we’d been at this for hours and hours. Luckily the interwebs were on our side yet again, turns out there’s some weird thing with Final Cut Express that sometimes it has to be kick started to render the audio correctly, a simple command-r and then a reasonable wait and the audio was in there perfectly. Whew!
It’s been a long road to travel for Steve but I think, I dearly hope we’re over the hump now and he can have fun with video production again. Stay tuned…
Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo
For Christmas I got a terrific book called The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo. I heard about it on the Real Deal Episode 181 when Tom Merritt and Rafe Needleman interviewed Carmine about the book. It’s a great episode of the Real Deal and if you haven’t seen or heard the show you should go check it out in any case.
The reason I’m bringing up this book is because it’s fascinating. We all know about the Reality Distortion Field that Steve Jobs creates when he does a presentation, but I always assumed it was something they pushed through the ventilation system or something. I’m sure they do that at the Apple Stores because I saw a guy once minding his own business walking down the mall and suddenly his body whipped sideways and he flew into the Apple Store. Sure, it’s possible he just noticed he was about to pass his intended destination but I think it was the reality distortion field.
Carmine Gallo has clearly spent a lot of time studying the methods Steve Jobs uses to create his dynamic and passionate presentations, and he actually breaks them down into practical steps you can follow to try and create some of the magic Steve brings to a speech. I’m about to do some presentations in my day job to some really big audiences, and while that doesn’t give me the cold chills normal people get at the thought (you HAVE figured out at this point that I like to be the center of attention, right?) I still figure I can improve my techniques. In particular I refuse to ever again give a PowerPoint presentation with a white background and black text in bullet form with long sentences. I’m just not going to do it. I’m also not going to start throwing in gimmicky fly in slides that twirl just to get attention and throw people off the message.
Instead I’m going to learn from Carmine Gallo and Steve Jobs how to more effectively draw in my audience and impart on them some of the enthusiasm I have for my topics. Luckily the hardest part is easy for me – Carmine says that you have to be passionate about your topic, and I only pick subjects about which I’m passionate! If I’m not excited about something, I refuse to stand up and talk about it, and I refuse to take on the assignments. I know everyone doesn’t have that luxury but for some reason I’ve gotten away with it for over thirty years.
I know this book is working because I can’t sleep after I’ve been reading it. I find myself going over and over ideas for my talks, working on tag lines and thinking of ways to get rid of material on my slides. If you do any kind of presentations and you’d like to see if you can better capture the imagination of your audience and suck them into your madness, I highly recommend The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo.
Zooom/2
Have I ever mentioned how much I love shareware developers? I really really do love them. I had two experiences this week that continued to cement that opinion. Back on show #206 in May of last year I reviewed an application called Zooom/2. The main thing I use Zooom/2 for is the ability to move a window by grabbing it anywhere. You’d be amazed how often you’ll use this. My Twitter client du jour, Twhirl frequently misbehaves and falls off the screen where I simply can’t grab the top of it, but no worries, since Zooom/2 is running in the background, with a little key combo I can grab it anywhere.
Anyway, the reason i bring this up is I was having one annoyance with Zooom/2 – the developer, John Clayton, updates the product pretty often which is very cool, but every single time I get an update i have to re-enter my license code. It was driving me berserk. So finally after about the 15th time I wrote him an email. He got back to me INSTANTLY, and explained that this has been driving him crazy too – because he can’t replicate it! He’s had a few people have the same problem but because he can’t make it happen on his end he can’t figure it out. He very politely asked me if I had the energy to do some experiments for him, running logging so we could crack the code.
Well you know me, this was like asking me if I wanted a hot fudge sunday! Of course I would play! We did about 25 experiments, writing back and forth as I ran the tests…and in the end the problem went away. It was very aggravating because of course we didn’t solve it for anyone else! But the main point is that instead of being annoyed at some whiny user, John was delighted that I’d written, apologetic that I’d had problems, and asked for my help with the product. That to me is perfection. Let me give him another plug – check out Zooom/2 at coderage-software.com In this case I love the software, but I’ve actually met the loveliest people when I didn’t even like their software – gracious and understanding and truly wanting to learn what they could do to improve.
iKeeper
The second example is Mike Yenco from yenco.com who wrote iKeeper. I did a review of iKeeper over on Tim Verpoorten’s Mac Reviewcast this week. I had one little question about the software, and wrote to Mike and he wrote a 2 page letter to me explaining his philosophy in what he’d developed, told me how much he adores Macs and Mac podcasts (he had me there). It wasn’t so much about the product but it was just delightful getting to know someone this way. The Mac community really does rock, you know?
ScreenSteps
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but we all know video can be even more powerful. So what if you could teach people things using words, pictures, AND video? You can do that with the latest version of ScreenSteps from ScreenSteps.com. You can write specific instructions explaining the why of each step, drop in an image showing the exact menu you’re talking about, and then embed a video screencast so you can really dig into the complexities of your subject. You’ll be a hero with your co-workers, your employees, and your customers. I even use ScreenSteps to teach relatives so I don’t have to repeat things over and over – give them a ScreenSteps document and they can pull it out every time they forget what you taught them. For only $40 for the standard version or $80 for the pro version of ScreenSteps you can have this kind of fun too. Heck, knock off 25% using the coupon code NOSILLA and it’s even less expensvie! Don’t forget to check out the educational and enterprise licensing too. Get on over to ScreenSteps.com
Intaglio
Are you old enough to remember MacDraw? It was a vector-based drawing program for the Mac that was wildly popular from the first Macintosh in 1984, was upgraded to MacDraw Pro in the 1990s (now with color!) and Claris got hold of it and mutated it into ClarisDraw it pretty much lost favor with the Mac community. Oddly it didn’t fall out of favor because there was something better out there, but rather because it was missing features compared to the older versions. Ask any old fart Mac user about MacDraw and they’ll get misty eyed on you thinking back to those delightful days.
I called MacDraw a vector-based drawing program – that means you’re drawing circles, lines and boxes that are not just bit-mapped pixels on the page, but rather can be dragged around and have their shapes changed after the fact. Well I have good news for you, there may finally be a replacement for our beloved MacDraw. Purgatory Design at purgatorydesign.com has a product called Intaglio that they bill as the MacDraw we’ve all been looking for. The folks at Purgatory Design have been developing for the Mac since 1984 (under different names) so I think they may be onto something here.
I did my usual poke around and press buttons method, and then I added a crazy new technique I’ve been trying out – I started reading the manual. I know, it’s kind of off the wall but you wouldn’t believe how much good information you can find in there! let’s start with the results of my poking around method and then we’ll get into more depth from the manual.
Intaglio has a beautifully simple interface, but do not let that fool you. Greatland outdoors 3 room tent manual. You get a nice big area to draw with gridlines on by default, and
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