Articles of interest from our archives
The Lunacy of the Leave Behind
I am a pragmatic being. At my core, I understand the values of efficiency and expedience. I embrace the art of compromise and understand that life often gets in the way of ideals and theories. Yet there is one ideal to which I hold stubbornly: it is the notion that a presentation content creator can create one set of slides that will function ably for the projected content and for the printed material. This is a fallacy!
Hillary Clinton Commits Death by PowerPoint
As part of her narrative on being the more electable candidate, the campaign for Senator Hillary Clinton distributed a PowerPoint slide deck to Democratic members of the House of Representatives on May 9, to be viewed, she hopes, by many uncommitted superdelegates. I wish the campaign had hired a presentations consultant.
There will be times in the life of any content creator when the desired image doesn’t exist and needs to be created. Those are the times when it’s good to know about objects—photographic images that consist only of a central foreground object, removed entirely from its background.
If there were a personality test for computer users, you would need look no further than how a person uses his or her keyboard.
A book excerpt about the trouble with thinking about dots and inches when working with screen output.
Our opportunity to make embarrassing predictions and be ridiculed by our peers
A collection of our favorite tips and tricks
An annual journey to a very large trade show
From Photos to DVD, Part I and Part II
Overcoming the oppressive restrictions of iTunes
A few must-haves and a few missed opportunities—all in all, a credible upgrade
The ounce of prevention that amounts to a pound of cure.
Enduring Images from PowerPoint Live ’05
A look at our annual conference
Just What is a Background, Anyway??
When photos are too good for PowerPoint
Community, Blind Dates. and Albert Einstein
An Interview with the
PowerPoint
Live Conference Host
Image Editors, Executive
Appearances, and Krispy Kremes
As Adobe’ s Shadow Grows, Is Corel Better off or Worse?
How Close to the Source Can You Get?
Part I: The Killer App of this Generation
Part II: The case against
A Killer Deal for Corel Or Another Distraction?
Corel completes acquisition
of Jasc
and its ultra-popular Paint Shop Pro
The Scourge that is AIM and Kazaa
Teenager’s Best
Friends are
Mom and Dad’s Worst Nightmare
Presenter, Audience, and Slides
We rummage through our archive to find this piece we wrote in 1991. Do you remember when computing was this primitive? And this simple?
We turn the tables on
one of the
oldest scams in history...
A Personal Wish List
for PowerPoint 12
Users are ready to take this application to the next level; are Microsoft’s developers ready, too?
Version 12 makes a good tool even better...
Deadly Sins Of Modern PowerPoint Usage
Why does PowerPoint have
a bad rep?
Here are a few choice reasons...
Is the Even-Numbered Curse Finally Over?
CorelDraw Suite 12 holds
the promise
of a clean release right out of the blocks
Another take on “Achieving Absence of Ugliness”
PowerPoint authors have
their own unique
issues with one of our favorite mantras
Debut of PowerPoint Live
leaves
unquenchable thirst with the host
Corel Corp. has a new custodian
Acquisition by Vector
offers new
lease on life...but same challenges
2003 Candor and Contrtion at CorelWORLD
It was foggy in San Diego...literally and figuratively
What a Long, Great Trip It’s Been!
CorelWORLD gets set to sail into the sunset
The Boat that Corel is missing
Years of missed markets could be made up for with one direct hit
The Annual Design-a-Brochure Contest
Brilliance on display by Corel-wielding artists
Managing your assets has gotten easier with DRAW 11
Our semi-annual pilgrimage to Holland.
On Creativity, Problem-Solving, and Paper Bags
Talent with Corel software can be defined many ways
The Art and Science Of Presentation Graphics
Computer presentations have one gift and one curse.
Our annual spoof caused quite a stir...
CorelDRAW 11: Baseliner or Serve and Volleyer?
What kind of personality and attitude should software have today?
What’s up with the sludge that PC makers offer today?
Does Digital Photography Rock or Does it Suck?
A typical day with these not-yet-typical cameras
Can we say goodbye to the Rolls Royce Mentality?
A softer economy isn’t all bad for Corel users
High Drama at CorelWORLD 2001
How to make Corel apps read your mind
A Modest Proposal for Reviving VENTURA Publisher
Corel asked us what we thought about Ventura Publisher. This is what we had to say.
Efficiency and time management are lost concepts in this atypical look at a typical day.
The Next Generation of Webmastering
It is deja vu all over again... oh no!
So you are not a professional illustrator...
Are you an expert if you can extrude your socks off but can’t draw a beach ball?
It used to be easy: If you could draw or paint, you could be an artist
The Tyranny of Presentation Software
How to turn a good speaker rotten in one step