Presenting

 THE GIFT OF CREATIVITY

Long gone art the days of 2D presentations…Hello animations!

So say goodbye to boring and let’s give a warm welcome to the world of presentation creativity that really goes the extra mile in helping you deliver presentations that not only give you bragging rights and lasting notoriety in today’s competitive working world, but also allows the invaluable asset of creative skill to shine through, making presenters sought after assets within any firm.

Most presentations are created using standardized presentation software that yield limited, and bland-at-best presentations.

If you are looking to take your presentations to the next level, why not use a 3D animation software to add the extra pizzas to your work.

You’ll be sure to wow an audience by using applications like Adobe After Effects, where you can present information to an audience that’s uniquely creative, with a boundless array of possibilities.

After Effects lets you create stunning presentations that are visual marvel’s compared to other presentation software.

So why not let your creativity flow and give After Effects a go when designing your next presentation.

For my inner creative

Here are a few YouTube designers who show you how.

Sonduck Film

Dope Motions

GraphicInMotion

Josh Keogh

Flow Studio

And for my time-crunched creative, here are a few websites that provide stunning low-cost presentation templates, with many to choose from.

Envato

Motion Array

Story Blocks

Video Hive

Verges Of Versions

 SUBVERSIONING

In the world of code re-use and maintenance, one of the best tools out there for tracking both miniscule and significant changes to your software programs lie in how well you maintain those changes across your application platform.

Likewise, as vendor requirements, functionality and module additions may change within a project several times before completion, the ability for programmers to revert to previous versions of their applications, store the additions, and likewise reference those changes, is imperative to today’s developer.

Subversioning software allows users to handle these tasks quite well. 

For the average or lone developer, Subversion Clients are more than suited to meet the demands of maintaining your development projects as you build them.

And for those working in a more intensive or team-oriented environment where projects might be shared by others, Subversion Servers help the team get the job done.

HOW THEY WORK

Subversion Clients - Are usually shell extensions that allow developers to store, check-out, and save versions of a program. Users can revert changes made to an application if an error is introduced into the program, and likewise make changes only to working copies of a program without committing any changes at all to an application until it meets the developer’s satisfaction. 

Developers can manage files, websites, or other large or cumbersome collections of information with ease, as change tracking methods allow version numbers to automatically be assigned within the versioning application, allowing programming tasks to be completed with ease, as developers are free to use their production efforts without the hassles of dealing with how their applications will be tracked across development cycles. 

Subversion Servers – These applications usually work in the same way as most subversion clients do, with the added robustness of allowing a number of users to work on and make changes to an application at the same time. Changes within an application are automatically versioned between users, allowing for application cohesion to occur with ease and efficacy within collaborative projects.

Subversion servers are designated in a centralized location where users can access projects and save them locally to make changes and satisfy project tasks. 

Once the application modules have been satisfied, the files can then be conjoined to develop the finished project, saving both the joined and individual efforts within the application. 

A Few Noted Applications Are

AnkhSVN

eSVN

PixelNovel Timeline

QSvn

RabbitVCS

RapidSVN

SubTitle

SVN Notifier

TortoiseSVN

Trac

ViewVC

VisualSVN

XCode

GIT

VisualSVN

Microsoft Visual Studio

Versioning allows developers to manage and organize their application revisions with ease.

Likewise, in the world of application development, where a problem in one place can cause applications to malfunction in others, these software applications have saved many – a – programmers in their programming tasks. 

So for all my developers out there, both the novice and expert alike, be sure to incorporate versioning in your projects, as they will surely save you both effort and error in the long run.

TRACK’N FIELDS

Looking for an online repository to store your website files…

 

Want to save your browsed web pages in the exact way you’ve browsed them…

 

Then HTTRACK might be the tool for you!

 

HTTRACK is an offline website downloader that allows users to save and store linked website data anywhere you’d like.

 

That’s right, you can save all the valuable information from most of your favorite websites for future reference, while maintaining the integrated link integrity of both inline and outside links. 

 

So why not download an entire website to view and store at your leisure, after all, with HTTRACK you can!

 

HTTRACK allows you to store all your website data as if you were actually visiting the site itself. 

 

Best of all, you choose the depth of the web links to preserve from the site, giving you full control of all data you want saved. 

 

Simply visit HTTRACK or download the mobile app from your phone and viola...WEBSITE SERVED!

 

Tutorials can be found here.

 

 

POSH PERSONALIZATION CON'T

 In this next faction of the series on POSH PERSONALIZATION, we explore how to utilize free and low-cost  fax to e-mail Facsimile Services.

 

Why use post, when you can send files electronically through facsimile services, almost instantaneously for a fraction of the cost?!

 

There are quite a few internet utilities  that allow both the professional and the enthusiast to send their files and documents at minimal cost, using a fax to e-mail protocol that sends faxes directly to your electronic messaging inbox.

 

A FEW NOTED ONES OUT THERE ARE:

 

FaxZero 

(faxzero.com)

 

FaxZero is an internet application that allows users to send up to 3 pages of free fax files along with a cover page. Likewise, there is a very low-cost fee of  around $2 to send a higher number of pages (up to 25 ). Certainly cheaper than sending your files by courier.

 

Fax Burner 

(faxburner.com)

 

Fax Burner is another electronic faxing service. However, with Fax Burner, you are assigned a free 24-hour fax number that you can use to send and receive electronic facsimile files with ease (up to 25 pages inbound per month and 5 pages outbound). Fax Burner also allows paid subscribers to receive up to 2000 pages of inbound and outbound faxes to your email account a month for the cost of an average next-day courier package (around $20).

 

RingCentral

(RingCentral.com)

 

Like FaxBurner and FaxZero, RingCentral is also an internet faxing provider. However while it is an alternative to the traditional courier, it isn’t a free service.  With RingCentral, most users are allotted a free trial period to use their services. For around $12 a month, users can recieve up to 500 pages a month to their e-mail inboxes...Perfect high volume file transfer needs that aren’t bound by heavy security constraints.

 

Ring Central is also a telephone and video conferencing provider as well. Allowing subscribers to utilize their fax, phone, and video platform at an affordable price (around $37 a month).

 

And Viola...Electronic Files Served!

 

So if you’re in the market for a low-cost facsimile solution, electronic faxing to email providers might work well in helping you accomplish your file sharing needs.