iPhone/iPad – Page 7 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Digital Journal with Apple’s Keynote as New Year’s Resolution

2015-12-22

Revisited an idea to use an Apple Keynote presentation as a journal/diary. Sounds strange, but might work.
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Dealing with Apple Keynote’s Backwards Compatibility — or lack thereof

2015-09-19

A really annoying issue with older Keynote files (created prior to version '09) -- they can't be opened by the newest Keynote version. Unless you edit the file externally.
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Converting ebooks (.azw, .epub, .mobi, etc.) to PDF

2015-09-01

If you prefer your ebooks in PDF, there's a way to convert them. Well, probably not in all cases, but in many.
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Organizing Creativity — A few tips to realize creative projects (presentation/video)

2015-08-22

A presentation that gives a short overview of creativity, organization, and the steps you can do to organize your creativity. Plus some reflections on recording a presentation at home.
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Small Remote for iOS Keynote Presentations

2015-08-18

When you do a presentation with an iPhone, you either have to advance slides on the iPhone screen or use a remote. I've tried out AirTurn DIGIT II. The results were ... mixed.
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Apple iOS Keynote Presentation Freezes

2015-08-17

I did a presentation using my iPhone and Apple's Keynote. Went well for the most part, but at times, Keynote started to hang. Here's a quick and dirty fix.
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Apple iPhone Cable Weaknesses (and a bypass with third-party products)

2015-07-07

Apple, apple, apple, really still for the crazy ones? The crazy ones are hardly the people who accept cables that are designed in way that ignores the most frequent likelihood that they fail. So here's a bypass for third-party iPhone cables which just do not fit if you use an environmental protection case.
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Reading books and fall asleep

2015-04-29

The future is here. Yeah. Something envisioned in 1961 is finally here. Easy reading in bed until you fall -- happily -- asleep. Available to (almost) everyone (in the modern world).
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Tips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: Hello Transparency!

2015-04-12

Keynote offers you a lot of effects by default. However, you can go beyond those effects and create some impressive animations by using images with transparency.
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Tips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: Using only an iOS device

2015-04-11

A few comments about doing a presentation with only an iOS device (well, and a projector, and an adapter, and a power cord).
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.