“And then I’ll be staying on a tiny island and I don’t know if I’ll be living in a hut, or what.” “Very exciting … as a luggage problem!” Joe Banks and the Luggage Salesman in “Joe Versus the Volcano” (1990) On Tuesday I did a fairly important presentation (for me) using only an iOS device (my iPhone 5s). It was the first time I used my iPhone as designated device for a presentation, and while certainly not the last time, it was an “interesting” experience. The main advantage of doing a presentation this way — you can vastly reduce the amount of stuff you have to carry. Essentially, you only need the following things (sans projector): You need: An iOS device (here: iPhone), the Keynote app, a Lightning-to-VGA adapter, the USB cable and a plug (here: for Germany), and a backup solution (USB stick with PDF export of the presentation). All this material fits easily in any pocket that deserves the name. (And no, this wasn’t the presentation.) As for doing the presentation itself … here are a few of my impressions/tips: Test the presentation beforehand: As written before, the iOS Keynote app limits the fonts available, so try [...]
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