Archive for April, 2009

Project Proposal

Monday, April 27th, 2009

I forgot to note: my iReactable project proposal for CSE 237D is up. I’ll be making an iPhone app, a data transmission protocol, and a server-side synthesizer.

Also, tonight I’ll have a literature survey up. [Update: The literature survey is now available on my CSE 237D page, and also here.]

Keynote Discoveries!

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Rands just posted some more Keynote goodness, and one gem made the entire read worthwhile:

Once you’ve fired up presentation mode, you have a slew of features to help you navigate disaster. All of these features are available by hitting the ? in this mode…

What? How have I never seen this?

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Keynote's In-Presentation Help Panel

We’ve all sat through the awkward pauses as the presenter tries to skip back and forth between his heavily-animated slides. I’ve even been that presenter. But not anymore!

There are shortcuts for skipping between slides (and not just build items), throwing up a black screen, and it turns out the number keys will pop up a “slide switcher overlay” for jumps. Fantastic. Now, when my audience asks to “go back to that one slide with the picture,” I don’t have to exit the presentation, find the slide, and restart.

Keynote, you are awesome.

CSE237D pages are up!

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

This quarter, I’m taking CSE 237D – Embedded Systems Design. It’s a project class, and I’ve created a page for all my work in this class.

This week I worked on a couple of research topic overviews for two possible projects. They’re linked from the classwork page.