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Well, I’m at the AAS meeting in Honolulu. The most interesting Mac-related news is that, for the first time, AAS presenters can use Macs (and Keynote) for presenting in oral sessions. They have Powerbooks with Parallels running OS X and Windows in every room, so people are free to use whatever OS and presentation software [...]
Tags: aas, keynote, powerpoint — .So, this week I made a poster for the Tex-Mex 9 conference in San Antonio, which I’m off to tomorrow. My tool of choice, Apple’s new Pages program, part of iWork which also includes Keynote. In the past, I had tried to use Powerpoint. The problem with Powerpoint for posters is twofold. One, powerpoint is [...]
Tags: apple, keynote, pages, PDF, posters, powerpoint — .< p>So, there was a post on Macintouch about Mac marginalization at physics conferences. The writer said everything had to be made for Powerpoint on a PC and he couldn’t use his Mac or Keynote. I figured surely astronomer’s are more enlightened – I mean Macs are everywhere at AAS. iBooks, Powerbooks. You can’t spit [...]
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