Comments on: 10 Presentation Tips for the Mac

By: Victoria

Victoria — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:21:32 +0000

Loved it, thank you very much, this tips are really useful!

By: Clint Bradford

Clint Bradford — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:45:16 +0000

Although it was initially really cool to connect my iPod touch and 17″ MacBook Pro to my Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 and run my presentations wirelessly – I found myself looking at the touch too much. I went back to my Kensington Model 33374. Connectivity with the MiFi is great in such settings … it just took my eyes away from my audiences.

By: Moritz Schmale

Moritz Schmale — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:09:18 +0000

If you don’t have an iPhone, try Salling Clicker! It’s for all tastes of mobile phones and can connect via bluetooth or wifi (while bluetooth is much more stable and hass less latency).
I use the narrator-monitor very intensive. I configured it that it displays the next animationstep very big, so I can see whats coming up next and I can say it before it is beeing shown.
You should use good contrasts (if you are not shure if the text is readable, test it on a beamer, they have less contrast than any LCD or TFT-monitor).

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:53:19 +0000

As a small note for #5 as far as screen saver and power saving goes, just get the simple (and free) menu bar application called Caffeine. You click on it once and it overrides any power saving options to keep your screen always on. No sleep, no screensaver. Then just click it again to let your normal settings take effect. Also, you can set a maximum time limit in case you forget to turn off Caffeine.

Link: http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/

By: Simon Raybould - presentations trainer

Simon Raybould - presentations trainer — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:30:39 +0000

…. and when you check your hardware, check it in the room you’ll be presenting in if you can – Murphy’s Law dictates that if you don’t, the range of your remote control well be ever so slightly less than the distance between your and your laptop! :)

By: Heiko Müller

Heiko Müller — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:51:18 +0000

If you doesn’t have a iPhone, Presenter Mode in Keynote works also fine with the little “Apple Remote” IR-Control unit.

By: Khürt L Williams

Khürt L Williams — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:41:55 +0000

What a timely blog posing. I’m presenting (Facebook Privacy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) to the Princeton MacIntosh Users Group next month and I was feeling nervous. The tip on Keynote was useful. I want to use my iPad to do my presentation but I have not read any good reveiews of the Keynote app for iPad.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:17:14 +0000

Under the “Sound Effects” tab in the Sound system pref I deselect “Play feedback when volume is changed.”

By: Douglas Drumond

Douglas Drumond — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:50:40 +0000

“With Keynote, you’ll need to make sure that your primary display is set to the projector or whatever device you connect to your Mac.”

In fact, no. You just need to go to Keynote preferences and change it to use the secondary display in “Preferences” -> “Slideshow” (check “Present on secondary display”).

By: mike2078

mike2078 — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:44:54 +0000

Well, the iPhone app didn’t work out for me. Especially in Computer to Computer mode is it very unstable and the iPhone loses sometimes the connection. If it is not reliable, it is not good enough for me.

I love keynotes presenter view. It’s customizable and combined with the apple remote a very powerfull tool for presentations.