The subject of what you can use fairly in powerpoints has always been a hot issue with me. I have seen the gambit of using nothing to using everything. I watched this really great video by Alvin Trusty on the subject and was just truly impressed. Not only does he talk about the research he has done on the subject but also shows everyone how he does some cool things using Powerpoint. A real open source type of guy. A must watch in my book.
Here is a link to his delicious links he mentioned in his presentation.
I just finished adding my PC to my home entertainment center. All very cool with a new PCI-Express video card that has HDMI out. I realized I only had one HDMI input into my TV and had to get a 3 switch hub.
Well doing all of this I was in dire need of some HDMI cables - where did I head, but to “the Shack”. A nice young lady working there pointed me in the area of the cables where I found out that they had a sale - a 6 FT HDMI cable for $49.. I went nuts!
Now, here is a great article from Popular Mechanics where they tested different costing HDMI cables and had experts that could not tell the difference.
I ended up buying 3 - 9 foot cables for $22 bucks from newegg
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PS - Thanks for Meghan for doing the voice over work…
One weekend I wanted to build a MP3 server for my home network ~ I had a PC motherboard, super glue, velcro, duck tape, and an old Mac shell. I mounted the motherboard on its side with super glue so it was vertical in the box. I then put the power supply in the bottom of the box and velcro’ed the hard drives so they where sticking out of the place where the mac monitor use to be. Last but not least, I duck taped the CD drive to the top… It worked great for many years until my mp3 collection got too big for the hard drive size. I tried to update it but something snapped and it never worked again..
