The Empresr team of @globalcitizen and myself are heading to Sunny California on Monday the 30th for a week long immersion into the Web 2.0 Expo. Unlike the past years at #w2e where we presented or exhibited, this year I will be there checking out what new technologies and ideas are being presented and blogging back about them. This is a slightly different approach, but what happens when you are involved with the conference is that you never get a chance to listen and see what is going on in the rest of the event. I am excited at this opportunity, I even started to make a schedule of who I want to see, that, for all that know me, is a rarity!

I am also doing demos for all that want to see what’s new with Empressr, to schedule some time with me just follow @empressr on Twitter then DM me your availability.

Also don’t forget to follow my personal Twitter @bryanthatcher

March 24th is Ada Lovelace day. An amazing day for computer programmers everywhere. Ada Lovelace has been credited as the first computer programmer EVER. 

Think about that for a second. What would it be like to be the first computer programmer in the history of computational machines.

Let me pose a couple of questions to you to frame up the magnitude of this title.

1. Who did her code reviews?
2. What kind of methodology did she use: RAD? Agile? 

Get to know Ada Lovelace through an empressr.

Global Citizen… OUT!

Like I promised, new features are planned to roll out every other week.

What’s new this week.

yes you can now search and drag and drop YouTube videos from within Empressr, it works great and is really easy. A couple of items you should be aware of is that YouTube videos have to auto-play (at lest for now) and due to api restrictions you are only allowed one video per slide in empressr. There is no limitation on how many videos you use, so long as it’s one per slide.

To access the video panel click the Import control on the bottom navigation bar

That opens the panel that let’s you search for images on flickr, yahoo and google, and now videos on youtube.

Another feature is the ability to import you notes that you may of made in you powerpoint document, the notes will import in both the jpeg only and the editable versions that we offer. to edit or add your notes click the gear on the lower right hand corner of the slide in the sorter,

that opens the option panel, there are 3 areas in this panel, properties, info and Notes

To see your notes while presenting, you have to launch the notes and twitter dashboard by clicking this icon in the Empressr viewer window

That icon launches the Dashboard that you can then drag to your second monitor while presenting

Some of the hidden features in the Empressr application are the key commands. Use these commands to speed up your creation time.

Copy = control c or ^c

Paste = control p or ^p (hint, the object gets pasted directly on top of the item copied)

Save = control s or ^s

To constrain a picture while scaling hold the shift key while dragging one of the corner handles

More keyboard shortcuts are coming soon

Have you managed to score some Empressr stickers? Show us where you stuck em! add a reply to this post with the URL of the picture, or email me at bryan at fusebox dot com. I will be posting the most interesting ones into an Empressr presentation that I will share with you. The pics will also be posted here on the Empressr blog.

Or make your own Empressr using our stickers and others!

I look forward to seeing the pics

A few latest.