Monthly Archives: September 2006

Animated GIFs used to be very popular like twenty, or twenty-five years ago, because they were small in size, and worked well in a lower-bandwidth world. They were created using multiple images, which were similar to each other, but still had some differences. As the images played like a flipbook, they provided an easy illusion of ...

Sometimes, it can be frustrating trying to do the simple things in PowerPoint such as duplicating an object so that the duplicated object sits right above the original. PowerPoint insists on placing the duplicated (or copy/pasted) object at an offset position, as you can see in Figure 1, below. Figure 1: Paste one object over another ...

An Indezine reader, whom I met in person described the PowerPoint double-byte font scare as a poisonous king cobra snake! Although this sounds like an exaggeration, this thought has lingered with me for many years. Let's take this dramatic approach further. Sooner or later, you will see PowerPoint look at you like a cobra that's ...