Sources for presentation images

Recently, I gave a talk about “Effective Presentations”, giving a short overview how to prepare and hold presentations that offer a concrete gain to the audience.

I mentioned Presentation Zen and slide:ology, my favourite books about transferring insight via presentations, and how they advocate replacing bullet-pointed text by images.

Just in time, Smashing Magazine posted an article about sources for presentation images, so I’ll simply spread the link to my participants.

Shooting closeups with the iPhone

If you’ve tried to do short distance photos with the iPhone, you know that it can’t focus any more if the item is only a few centimetres away. I noticed this shortcoming when I had the idea to photograph all my collected business cards and make them searchable in Evernote. Their OCR just couldn’t make sense of those blurry letters.

But I’ve found a solution. The Griffin Clarify case not only protects my iPhone from hits and scratches, but also adds a lens that I slide over the camera window when I’m going to do closeup shots.

With the Clarify, I’ve got rid of all business cards. I now can search for a name on Evernote and get a sharp photo of the card back.

Goodbye Rolodex. Hello iPhone.