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  Structuring Your Talk: Preparing a talk always takes far longer than you anticipate.  Start early! Write a clear statement of the problem and its importance. Research. Collect material which may relate to the topic. Tell a story in a logical sequence. Stick to the key concepts. Avoid description of specifics and unnecessary details.  If you are making a series of points, organize them from the most to the least important. The less important points can be skipped if you run short of time. Keep your sentences short, about 10-20 words each is ideal. This is the way people usually talk. Strive for clarity. Are these the best words for making your point? Are they unambiguous? Are you using unfamiliar jargon or acronyms?   Preparing Your Slides: Presentation Design Let the picture or graphics tell the story - minimize the use of text. Don’t overload your slides with too much text or data. FOCUS. In general, using a few powerful slides is the aim. Type key words...

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How do I: Add a Blogger API request to a blogger post

Maybe at the end of the year you would like to print off a copy of your blog posts for the year as a momento to give to someone. Using  Blog Booker  is a way of doing that. This video  from  Richard Bryne  shows you how to do that.

You can embed a Google Drive Folder anywhere in a blog but it sort of makes sense to put it on a page that is more static and accessible. The usefulness of doing this is that the images or files or whatever you put in the embedded folder can just be swapped or added to for every reference and just keep the embedded folder on the one page- nice and simple. You are going to want to copy some html code and change it a little. If I write the code directly into this blog post it will embed stuff so I have written the code for you to copy onto a Google Doc that you may like to make a copy of for yourself and do the changing on your own copy. Here is a direct link to the  Google Doc  for you to copy. Angela Lee  has made this video to show you the process too. And here is how the embedded Google Drive Folder would look... 14 Select the pdf file you want to embed. Right click >  Preview  >  More actions  >  Open in a new windo...

Blending Option is best for changing colors of your Image If the background is transperant. with the help of blending options you could change the color of image or icon into any color Steps: Double click or right click on your layer and select blending options. A layer style popup will open. From the Layer style menu Select Color overlay and pick your color. Smart and easy. - CTRL+Backspace fills the background with main color, Alt+Backspace - Additional color Ctrl + i  or  Cmd + i  is the quickest way to do it. It just inverts all black pixels to white. It will also switch other colors to their complementary.