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If you’re like Kevin Swan, then you use Showit Web for more than one type of slideshow. For instance, his album slideshows and his engagement slideshow. Each type of slideshow has settings that require tweaking most of Showit Web’s settings. If you’re switching back and forth between styles, it can be time consuming to have to reset all the preferences.
Kevin has shared a way to save your settings to you don’t have to change everything every time. Here’s how he does it between album previews and standard slideshows:
You open Showit Web
Set everything the way you want it for album preview
(e.g.: no movement, embedded with custom background, 900×450 size, etc.)
Export a slideshow
Quit Showit Web
Browse to the place Showit Web stores preferences (on Mac ~/Library/Preferences/ — on PC it’s in the same folder as Showit Web)
Create a new folder called “showit album presets”
Copy the showitwebprefs.xml file into the “show album presets” folder
Then:
Open Showit Web
Set everything the way you want it for standard slideshow
(e.g.: zooming, embedded with custom background, portrait size, etc.)
Export a slideshow
Quit Showit Web
Browse to the place Showit Web stores preferences (on Mac ~/Library/Preferences/)
Create a new folder called “showit slideshow presets”
Copy the showitwebprefs.xml file into the “show slideshow presets” folder
When you’re done, you will have a folder structure like this:
Now, before launching Showit Web, simply go into your preference folders, copy the showitprefs.xml file from OUT of the folder you want (e.g. if you’re building an album, grab it from the “showit album presets” folder), and copy it over the showitwebprefs.xml in the general Preferences folder.
Then when you launch, Showit Web will have the settings you saved for albums. You can do this for as many different slideshow styles as you like!
Maybe in the near future, Showit Web will have the ability to save these preferences inside the application? (hint hint, DJ). Thanks, Kevin, for the info!
RF
Obviously, we’ve updated our look!
Be on the lookout for new videos in the following areas:
There are some other exciting partnerships that we will let you know about very soon!
Some of you are familiar with David Allen’s GTD system. Rebel Fish is a great believer in GTD and has experimented with may GTD systems on her mac. She’s been using kGTD (Kinkless GTD) for the last 6 months. While it’s very good, it’s a little broken and sometimes more complicated than it’s worth. The idea behind GTD is simplicity and speed!
Today, Nathan Holritz turned her on to Ghost Action, a very simple and elegant GTD application that syncs beautifully with iCal and Rebel Fish’s phone. The application is MUCH simpler to implement and manage than Kinkless, which means it’s more fun, which means Rebel Fish will be using GTD more, which means she’ll be getting more things done, which means her mind will be free to enjoy the important things–like blogging!
RF
Rebel Fish has several wireless Mighty Mice, from Apple. She loves and hates them. They are perfectly designed in so many ways, but they have a glaring flaw… The small trackball–a little bit of dirt, and suddenly it’s only scrolling up, not down… Left, not right…
She used to take them back to Apple and they would dutifully replace them. Now, she’s developed a new trick:
Press the ball down _hard_ and roll it around pretty violently for a few seconds.. Scroll up and down, left and right… When you release it, it should have cleared the dirt.
Probably not on the Apple “recommended procedures” list, but it saves Rebel Fish from having to head down to the local Apple store every few months.
Best of luck!
RF