My boss is making a giant poster in Powerpoint (please don't ask me why powerpoint, I can't even fathom it). She is trying to put our University logo in it. It is an eps file. She normally add graphics to things by cutting and pasting them from either an original document, or a previous powerpoint or publisher file she has used (again, mine is not to reason why). She, understandably, cannot do this with these eps files. I showed her the "insert picture" function, which is, incidently, very frustrating to her for an unknown reason. However, when we insert the picture, it is inblisible. I did some googling and it sounds like eps and Microsoft Office products don't play well. Is there any solution? Should I open the eps file in illustrator and change it to some other format? Is there a best format to use in the manner she does?

Thanks!

This is a cool idea.

Eye-Fi has just announced the release of their new wireless SD memory card for digital cameras. The card, which they have been beta testing over the last year and a half, connects your local wi-fi network and automatically uploads photos stored on the card to your computer or to one of 17 online photo sharing services and social networks. The 2GB SD card is now available and is priced at $99.99.

Eye-Fi uses home wireless networks to eliminate the time-consuming chore of dealing with cables, card readers or software plug-ins associated with uploading photos. Users simply turn on their digital camera and their pictures are wirelessly uploaded. The Eye-Fi Card works with existing and new SD-compatible digital cameras and stores photos like a conventional SD memory card.

Sounds like it just automatically uploads pictures when in the presence of WiFi - Neato!

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Sophia, .png or a high-res jpg will work. IIFC, the picture will turn out better if you size the graphic in Photoshop rather than in PowerPoint.

She's probably using PowerPoint because that's what she knows. If all you have is a hammer, you treat everything as if it's a nail.

I keep my Dock on the bottom and hidden.

Thanks Ginger! I am a little leery of the PowerPoint thing, because the last time a boss did a giant poster in powerpoint, the images looked like crap and I got blamed, even though all I did was burn the document and take it to the copy center.

I'm surfing in search of it right now, but figure I might as well ask--anyone configured two TiVos in the same room to use different IR commands? And then configured a Logitech Harmony 880 for both too?

Nice! Once I'd trained the TiVos and the original remote according to their instructions I then used IR training to program an Old TiVO and a New TiVo into the Harmony 880. Haven't fully tested it, but preliminarily it looks good.

I keep my dock on the left, pretty small, and always unhidden. I actually prefer to have my windows taskbar locked to the left side as well, but sometimes it wreaks havoc with my themes, like right now. So it's currently at the bottom.

OMG, I just discovered the coolest thing in the universe!

Ok, maybe that was a tad hyperbolic. Anyway, this is for folks with Leopard. It has the ability to take a portion of a web page and make it into a Dashboard thingie that automatically keeps itself updated.

It's easy as hell. For example, open the Message center of b.org in Safari. Then go to "File / Open in Dashboard". Then select the portion of the page you want and click on the button. That's it. Now if I don't have b.org open I can just go to the Dashboard and see how many unread posts I have.

I was actually thinking of writing a Perl script for this, but now I don't have to....

eta: You can even click on a link on the Dashboard thingie and it will open that link in your default browser.

that is really cool!