204: A MacSparky Field Guide

David and Katie talk about the subject of David's latest books, Presentations and how you can create powerful and compelling presentations yourself.

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Links and Show Notes:

Links for this episode:

• Presentations — MacSparky
  iBooks link
  
• Field Guides — MacSparky
  
• Presentations Field Guide Trailer on Vimeo
  

• Apple - Keynote for Mac
  Keynote for Mac makes it simple to create and deliver beautiful presentations. Powerful tools and dazzling effects bring your ideas to life. You can work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices. And work effortlessly with people who use Microsoft PowerPoint.
  
• Microsoft PowerPoint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called "Presenter", developed by Dennis Austin[not in citation given] and Thomas Rudkin[not in citation given] of Forethought, Inc.[
  
• Overhead projector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  An overhead projector is a variant of slide projector that is used to display images to an audience.
  
• MPU 085: Paperless | Mac Power Users
  David and Katie talk about David’s Paperless book and the best tools and software to go paperless with your Mac and iOS devices.
  
• Mac Power Users 164: Tackling Email | Mac Power Users
  David and Katie sit down to discuss the topic of tackling email, how they manage and organize their email, the power tools they use and David’s latest book.
  
• Mac Power Users 131: Markdown Revisited | Mac Power Users
  David and Katie are joined by Eddie Smith of Practically Efficient to discuss the new MacSparky Field Guide: Markdown co-authored by David and Eddie.
  
• MPU 082: Cooking Ideas | Mac Power Users
  David and Katie cover strategies for using mindmapping and outlining tools.
  
• MPU 086: Workflows with Wendy Cherwinski | Mac Power Users
  Speechwritier and presentation coach Wendy Cherwinkski join Katie and David to explain how she goes about her trade.
  
• Merlin mann | Search Results | Mac Power Users
  
• Mind map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  A mind map is a diagram used to visually organise information. A mind map is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank landscape page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added.
  
• Taken (2008) - Quotes - IMDb
  "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
  
• BEEDOCS Timeline 3D - Software for Mac OS X
  Timeline 3D is software for Mac OS X that makes it easy for you to present historical events in a way that reveals connections and clarifies relationships.

• Twitter / MacSparky: Here’s my pal Graham working ...
  

  Here’s my pal Graham working on some art for the next Field Guide. pic.twitter.com/fi7ladMCrz

  — David Sparks (@MacSparky) June 18, 2014

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