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I love it when something so simple can add so much value. This rule of thirds hack for your presentations is explained with eloquence by Garr Reyonlds. While it may not help those mandatory, corporate, "eye chart" slides you need to prepare, it will greatly enhance the ones that that matter.

The article may also make you a better amateur photographer.

Amazon also carries Garr's book: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter).

We (Mary & I) just watched they 2007 WWDC Keynote in (almost) it's entirety and I felt compelled to jot a few notes down (via Safari 3 on OS X Tiger).

1. New desktop: first, what's wrong with a blue background? second, i hope there's a way to turn off the fancy Dock effects; last, the menu bar enhancements (though grainy in the video) seem decent
2. Stacks: meh
3. New Finder: meh (though CoverFlow is growing on me every time I see it)
4. Spaces: gimme VirtueDesktops back
5. BootCamp: the fast switch mode is very cool (need to look past they keynote for that info, tho)
6. CoreAnimation: rocks!
7. Quick Look: it's growing on me
8. Network sharing: scary (from a security point-of-view)
9. Time Machine: yeah, yeah
10. Safari: best thing to happen to Windows and will be glad to see it gobble up market share
11. iPhone: lots of folks poo-pooed it today, but I think it's the most intelligent way to develop apps for the mobile, connected platform. it's *way* better than using some huge development environment to compile code that has to be "sync'd" and will enable far more interesting mobile apps than one might think. I just hope there's a way to have some local storage.

UPDATE:

I apparently forgot the WebClip/Dashboard feature. To that I give a firm "meh."