Came here via Kottke. Your ‘How to Cheat Good’ is brilliant. I’m thinking about printing it out for my Googling students. Amazing how obtuse some of the commenters were, though.

I feel for you, man. Those little plastic covers are soooo cute, you hate to lose them. Whoever said packaging isn’t part of the experience? The previous mac powerbooks had a little domed cover for the power cord that was even nicer. Lost as soon as possible, of course, but nice while it lasted. Like first love. Sort of.

Misconfigured PCs abound. And png’s (and TIFFs) will send them into a tizzy all the time. It is unfortunate, but those of use who live with machine that is capable out of the box have to watch out for them. They don’t watch out for us. Lately I’ve started “printing” my presentations to PDF and JPEGs and SWF as a fall-back position. And eschew transitions. You know they are high in chloresterol, anyway, don’t you? Sort of like the eggs benefict of professional communication.

Keynote navigation is another world. Wait til you try to grok the “second screen” instructions. Has anyone every had this do what they expected the first time? I think, like debits and credits, the terminology is inverse to the lay person. And when you compensate, in your mind, by inverting them, it does the opposite to THAT. Hint: open a presentation in “play” mode and press the question mark. A huge list of shortcuts appears (as it does in Powerpoint). You’ll get a shivver of excitement as you realize the potential of “Z” and “X”… ahem. Where was I.

All the best. And welcome to the family. See you in Brisbane?

…r

the png thing is a misconfigured pc

the double click…. well you have to just ‘be steve’ and relaxe when giving your presentation, you get used to it…. just ‘be steve’.