We’ve seen a few speakers throw down their favorite presentation tools recently:
So, that’s console-presenter and showoff, so far. I also know some very bold presenters use LaTeX with Beamer for theirs.
What do you use? And why?
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I have a bad habit of building my own tools. So, I use an HTML-based one I built myself.
For static slides, I mostly use S5, with HTML generated from any of a number of homegrown slide tools. These days, I spend as much time in Vim and terminal buffers as I do in slides, though, which means it’s just 24 or 36-point Inconsolata from a full-screen shell.
I’ve been a fan of the XUL based takahahi presenter. Slides with big words, notes and a progress bar, don’t know what else I would need. And it’s just text so you can hack it to be what ever you need.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/applications/takahashi-r/&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
I’ll be presenting using a custom tool based on Google’s recent html5 presentation. You can see the original here:
http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html
Player Piano – http://playerpiano.googlecode.com
It fakes an interactive python shell using doctests. Great for demoing code, and way easier than trying to type live.
ha! I just noticed my tweet about trying showoff prompted a blog post by @osbridge http://goo.gl/9h8P
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I love my presenter-mode screen with all the extra goodies, so I use OpenOffice with that extension.