Category: Presentations
How to change the colours of individual bars in an Apple numbers graph
There are preset colour sets for graphs in Apple numbers spreadsheet. It’s easy to apply a preset set of colours for a graph. But how do you customise the individual colours of bars or lines within a graph? This took me ages to work out! The trick is to click on the graph, then click…
How to do a livestream
Fantastic article on how to do a livestream here:
Viewing your OSX screen from multiple iPads
I’d like to set up some iPads so that our musicians can all follow along with what’s on the mac’s screen. This may also be useful for helping visually impaired people to see what is on a projector screen. Previously I’ve used VNC but it’s a bit complex to set up. There are various options…
How to make photos fill the screen in Apple Keynote
Apple Keynote has an option when you are importing a photo to “scale” it to fit to a slide. For some reason it will down-scale a larger picture to fit on a small slide but it won’t scale a small picture up. Here’s how to take a lot of photos and scale them all up…
How to change the volume on your laptop without a beep sound effect
This Logitech remote has a volume adjustment button on the side. But if you change the volume the computer gives a loud ‘quack’ out the speakers, which in not good if you are in the middle of a presentation or a movie. Here is how to disable the volume change sound effect.
How to extract a movie or photo out of a Keynote presentation – updated for Sierra
There have been many times that I have been given a keynote file from someone, and I wanted to get a movie or picture out of it and save it as a separate file. Here’s how to do it.
How to loop slides within a keynote presentation
This is a feature that is sorely missing in Apple keynote. The ability to create a loop within Keynote. For example you may want have a loop of 4-5 slides at the start of a presentation while people are waiting, and then start the presentation without having to exit and open a new presentation. Or you may…
How to setup a macbook air for church presentations
There are lots of different ways you can set up a computer and projector at your church but after 15 years playing around with various options here is the system we have ended up with at our church. We want the words up the front for people to sing along to and we want the singers…
My data projector is displaying a different screen to my computer.
When you plug a projector (or second monitor) into your Macintosh laptop or computer for the first time it will probably display a different screen to your main display. To see the same on both screens you ned to turn on ‘mirroring’ in the displays preferences.
Good wireless remote for Keynote or Powerpoint to use on your Macbook
I’ve just found a new wireless remote to use with presentations in Keynote or Powerpoint. Recently I have purchased a Kensington wireless remote and I’m very happy with it. It appeared in our local Office works store recently for just $29, and it’s on par with the old Logitec remote.
How to disable the exit presentation button on a Logitec R400 wireless presenter
The new Logitech R400 – a bit of a dud!
How to get your external monitor to show a different desktop.
When you plug in a second monitor to Macintosh computer, it may display an exact copy or ‘mirror image’ of what is on your first display. Â
How to play any kind of movie on a mac including AVI files
Playing AVI files on a mac
How to connect your macbook to a data projector
How to choose the right Apple Display Adapter.
How to make a video of what’s on your screen
How to do a screen casts on OSX.
How to do a live webcast
Webcasting is videoing a live event and streaming it on the web for others to watch. Here’s how to do a webcast from you mac.
Best presentation controller for keynote or powerpoint
This Logitech presenter is great. After using the ATI remote wonder for a year or so, and a Microsoft cordless mouse also, I’ve done a bit of research, and came up with these little units as the as the best in my opinion. They are $79 at Officeworks and have all the features you need…
How to make a good slideshow to view on a projector.
This entry arises from people always asking what is the best software to show slides at church….