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Maureen Kelly over at Boxes and Arrows has a nice article about building Interactive Prototypes with PowerPoint.

PowerPoint prototypes are a great way to show someone how the flow of an interaction might work and even better, you can send them the .ppt file to view before or after your demo, not to mention ensuring that almost everyone you work with could (if you want them to) contribute to the PowerPoint deck since the application is nearly ubiquitous.

As an aside, I’m always a bit impressed with the ingenuity of people who live in one application for everything, and PP certainly can let you do that. I’ve known many people that use PP for note taking, article reviewing (guilty!) and of course outlining (it’s better than Microsoft Word). However, this is nothing compared to the people who used to live in Lotus 123 including writing memos and even formatting floppies. (Ah, floppy disks.)

Google Desktop for Macintosh.

Goodbye Spotlight?

Adam Rosen has put together a great online Vintage Mac Museum, where you can learn all about the history of our Apple hardware. Adam is very knowledgable about the history of the Macintosh, and has some great info.

This brings to mind all of the Macintoshes I’ve owned (or used for work):

• (Fat) Mac 512k
• Macintosh SE (with 20MB HD - woohoo!)
• Macintosh SE/30
• Mac IIx (with the Texas Instrument LISP chip in it)
• Mac Classic (color)
• Duo 280 (where I installed my own internal modem, the Mac equivalent of neurosurgery at the time)
• NeXT slab (that counts now, doesn’t it?)
• Powerbook 540 (Blackbird?)
• Mac IIsi
• Quadra and Performas (many different ones, all similar)
• A large, Macintosh-less gap that could be called the dark ages.
• Powerbook G4
• G5 tower
• MacBookPro

And there are probably at least a few more I’m forgetting.