Voice and Powerpoint

You probably have faced the situation of not being happy with the recording you have for your Powerpoint presentation. It is not very easy to find a way out of that.

Basically, Powerpoint creates an icon and gives you the opportunity to give a name to the recording for each slide, so that you can use that resource a bit better than you currently do: Name all recordings in a unique way. Then use the search button from MS (the rectangle that is found to the side of the MS button) to find the file. Click on open file location after right clicking over the name, which will appear at the top of the rectangle that is built over the MS button after you press enter on the search bar. 

You then convert the file, if necessary, or you record the message using the Voice Recorder from your computer. You can even use iTunes to rename the extension of the file, as we have explained here earlier on (will give you a .wav). You then drag the file to inside of Audacity and perform at least these actions: Leveling, Noise Reduction, Equalizer and Normalizer. This sequence, per se, will give you a much better quality of sound. You then must export the file to be able to insert it in your Powerpoint presentation. You will use the resource Insert Audio in this case. 

Audacity is a free program. 

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Embedding Movies in POWERPOINT Presentations

Ever had problems with it?

Today I faced the ultimate in these regards: I even had a .wmv but THE THING would not cooperate. No, sir: It kept on telling me that the codecs whatever. 

Oh, well, Google comes, Google goes, and I found something of interest that came from the own Microsoft (MS). Shame it did not work as they said it would, so that I went to the page they told me to visit, for third parties' CODECS, and downloaded absolutely everything that seemed to be even remotely related to my problem. After that, I installed everything, even something with the Communist flag on it, with no fear (what we should never do) and... and...: Yes, that's right, FABULOUS OLD NOTHING!

I finally dug to the right side of the Google Universe and found a gem: All, second choice, XP Codec Pack, and, if your problems are of the same type, you should be just fine (the MS message was install codec or Apple product x). 

These guys have all codecs inside of this single batch file, so that you click install and it all works as if you had a Genie. 

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Free Conversion: Movies

Sometimes you just need to convert .mp4s to .avis, right? The problem is then finding a reliable program through which you can do that. Most of what is available is going to cost you.

I found this website, however, where you can convert all for free and the output is of reasonable quality. It is probably not acceptable for most of what you want to do but if you are going to use the movie in a Power Point presentation, it should be something. 

Convert

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Itunes: Free Conversion

So, I had this musical file in .m4a shape. My computer was going crazy and there was no way programs would converse. They finally decided that .m4a was too advanced for them in an incredible programs insurgency. 

And now?

Google goes, Google comes and I watch: Jee, it is going to cost me a lot if I want to be serious about this.

Finally, a friendly approach: Just use Itunes!

I had Itunes, I did not pay for it, and I converted it all in a way that all my programs became happy and therefore in a way my computer became OK again. 

We change a setting only but mine was already to what I wanted and Itunes converts to .wav upon receiving the order to import music from somewhere. After that, all you have to do is right clicking on your musical item and choose Create WAV Version.

Wow, what a miracle in terms of simplification and costs!

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Power Point and the Sound Icon

If you have ever faced the situation of wanting your sound icon to disappear from your Power Point presentations, then you will find value in this information.

Due to the clever programming systems in place these days, most of the things done in IT are object-oriented. In this case, you can drag items from your screen quite easily: Just click on the sound icon and drag it to the edge of the screen where the slide is. This will suppress its image when it comes to both .pptx and .wmv presentations, so that you won't see the icon in both cases (movie and slides).

You could also go to the right rectangle of your screen, where you see the list of extra elements on your slide (if you have it on) and right click on the arrow. In this case, you will see the option Hide the Icon. Just tick that box. If that doesn't work, you can reinstall your Power Point. Notwithstanding, you may be a victim of hacking and malware, so that reinstalling the program won't work. You should then run good anti-hacking and malware programs over your version of Power Point. 

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Latex and Figures: Ever Had Trouble?

If you did, here is a couple of hints: Converting to .eps makes it all easier. To do this, you may use an online interface, which is free to use: ALL to EPS

This website brings information about the different picture formats. For instance, it explains that .jpg means Joint Photographic Experts Group. 

You can write the name of the file plus its extension inside of the curled brackets with no loss, so do it, since that will make your code clearer.

You are definitely going to need to include at least one line in your preamble: \usepackage{graphicx}

What I am recommending is the Incredible Hulk Solution, like it seems that if you do things in this way, you will have the least amount of chance of having problems, that is, of not having your picture displayed on your .pdf (Portable Document Format) in the end.

The code to be used inside of the file, between the \begin{document} and the \end{document} is:

\begin{figure}[h!]

  \centering

  \includegraphics[width=350pt]{graphs.eps}\\

  \caption{Maple Plot}\label{U}

\end{figure}

The [h!] is to guarantee that the picture will appear where you have placed the just-mentioned lines. The 350pt is a reasonable choice and you can play with that as much as you like via trial and error. graphs.eps was the name of my picture after I converted it from .jpg to .eps (Encapsulated Postscript). The caption, you know, is what you want printed soon after the graph, and the label thing is to allow you to mention this graph in the future, inside of the text, without much hassle. We then used the command \ref{U} in our case. 


If you got a picture that is in a horizontal position but you need it to be in the vertical position, you can try to adjust the angle of display by typing things in this way: 

\begin{figure}[h!]

  \centering

  \includegraphics[width=350pt, angle=90]{graphs.eps}\\

  \caption{Maple Plot}\label{U}

\end{figure}

Then you play with that 90 degrees as you need. 

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Linkedin and Job Search: The Finest Hints

I have recently found this video and I have never watched anything more impressive: The amount of information delivered by this woman is really unbelievable. 

Here a video you will not regret watching if you are really wanting to optimize your use of this wonderful and so modern tool, Linkedin. 


The video brings some propaganda of the company that has built it but you can easily ignore that and simply get the information, which is really important and looks very reliable.

Super Video


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