Tag: SLIDESHOW

The New York Times has a fun slideshow of educational tech spanning the past 140 years. (The only earlier entry was for a wooden paddle dated at 1650, but that seemed more punishing than edifying.) Recall those musty libraries with their filmstrip viewers, language lab headsets and Scantrons (recently reincarnated as New York voting machines) as you realize the iPad now falls into their ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Print is dead! Long live the... slide projector? Rotary Magazine is a boutique publication that appropriates old transparencies found on eBay and presents them as a ...

It's a staple in classrooms and boardrooms across the U.S.A. -- the obligatory PowerPoint presentation. For the past 25 years, whenever and wherever there are people called upon to present information, Microsoft's slide show app has been there. While a fairly convenient way to organize and present a topic, the software's not without its faults, either. BBC News recently gave a rundown of the ...

Do you like making stuff, but absolutely hate the idea of putting any effort into it? Well, we have just the thing for you. Essentially, Animoto is a Web app that produces videos from photos and music that you upload to the site. It analyzes the data and automatically generates a slide show, pieced together with crazy cuts and visual transitions. It's sort of like a movie trailer, but with ...

Forbes takes a bruised and bloodied limp down memory lane with a slideshow it's compiled of history's most violent and shocking video games. Kicking off the party is 1976's 'Death Race 2000' for Atari -- the game that's credited with introducing violence into video games because it let you run over pedestrians in a car. More accurately, it let you steer a couple of blocky pixels into some other ...