PowerPoint pretty much sucks, for a variety of reasons. And in that group I also include OpenOffice.org Impress (which I personally choose to suffer through) and Apple's Keynote. They all just suck in different ways. Being a Web dude, I've always looked for a web-based solution, and now there appears to be two contenders: Dave Raggett's Slidy (he's the guy who invented the awesome Tidy, so you know he's a smart cookie) and Eric Meyer's (we all must bow to him & his CSS godly knowledge) S5, which stands for Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System. Both are good, & both work the same: they provide you with the CSS files (which you can customize ... & which you should customize, so your templates are unique) and JavaScript, & your job is put your entire presentation in an XHTML file. If you know HTML, this will be easy; if you don't ... well, there's always Impress! Based on my experimentation with both, I'm going to use S5. It supports font scaling a bit better, & it has some features that ...

Since Philip couldn't make it, Eric agreed to step in and talk a little bit about Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM). New verifiable email format. 11:53 AM DKIM goals: low-cost. Avoid large PKI, new services. No trusted third parties. Do difficult to police, single points of failure. No client UA upgrades required. Minimal changes for end users. Message, not path validation. Identities can be delegated 10:54 Tech overview signs body and selected headers. signature transmitted in DKIM-signature header filed self-signed signature Identity is tied to the signature, not inherently related to the From: header unlike, say PGP. Intially, public keys stored in NVS—new RR type, fallback to TXT— in _domainkey subdomain. Namespace divided using selectors, allowing multiple keys for aging, ...

Since one of the scheduled speakers couldn't make it because of logistical problems, Eric Allman agreed to step in at the last minute and talk about his latest project, Domain Keys Identified Email, or DKIM. For those of you who don't know who Eric is, he's the creator of Sendmail. So when he thinks email needs a new protocol, it's a big deal. The basic idea is this: we have effective means of encrypting messages so that they can't be tampered with in transit (PGP, S/MIME). What we don't have yet is an effective means of verifying that message is from the sender it claims to be from, or of knowing whether we should trust that sender. This is particularly important when attempting to identify spam and trying to prevent the spread of viruses that open up a person's address book and attempt to replicate using borrowed identities. The DKIM solution is essentially to enforce reverse DNS lookups. When mail is sent, certain header fields will be signed with a signature contained in a ...

The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 80 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across 75 industry-leading blogs. Each week we ask our bloggers to choose their top posts, which we bring to you in one easy-to-read weekly post. You'll find lots more links after the jump. Enjoy! Engadget's J.D. Lasica interviews Orb Network CEO Jim Behrens, offers a how-to on accessing iTunes from a cellphone, and reveals that Japan has plans for a Robot Moon Base, while Barb Dybwad solicits readers' Motorola RAZR wishlists. Autoblog's Eric Bryant predicts what's next in the parade of recalls and opines that the big three maintain truck supremacy. John Neff spies a BMW crossover coupe. Walter Keegan Jr. treats us to an illustrated tour of Saturn Vue 2006 updates. ...

So far, it's been a really fun day, in a geeky sort of way. As a neophite tech conference goer, it's a little strange to see so many people plugged in. At least 80-% of the audience is taking notes, visiting the websites being mentioned, chatting, checking email, and probably hacking up code samples, a far cry from the academic conferences I'm used to. The, uh, gender dynamic is about what you'd expect, too. I'm sure I'm not the only one liveblogging this either; an open wireless network is a wonderful thing. The organizers ahve done a bang up job, and aside from some logistical problems created by the vist of Ahmed Kharzi to campus today, everything has gone very smoothly. The people are great, too, but anyone who has hung out on any of the NYCBUG lists already knew that. Chatted a little bit with Maichael Welsh  about the BSDCert colo  facilities. Who knew FreeBSD was big in Brazil? I exchanged pleasantries with Jeffery Hsu from Dragonfly at lunch and Michael Lucas who is a ...

The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 100 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across over 75 industry-leading blogs. Each week we ask our bloggers to choose their top posts, which we bring to you in one easy-to-read weekly post. You'll find links to the hottest posts from the third week of July after the jump. Enjoy! ...

The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 100 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across over 75 industry-leading blogs. Each week we ask our bloggers to choose their top posts, which we bring to you in one easy-to-read weekly post. You'll find links to the hottest posts from the fourth week of July after the jump. Enjoy! ...

The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 100 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across over 75 industry-leading blogs. Each week we ask our bloggers to choose their top posts, which we bring to you in one easy-to-read weekly post. You'll find links to the hottest posts from the first week of July after the jump. Enjoy! ...

The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 100 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across over 75 industry-leading blogs. Each week we ask our bloggers to choose their top posts, which we bring to you in one easy-to-read weekly post. You'll find links to the hottest posts from the second week of July after the jump. Enjoy! ...

The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 100 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across over 75 industry-leading blogs. Each week we ask our bloggers to choose their top posts, which we bring to you in one easy-to-read weekly post. You'll find links to the hottest posts from the past week after the jump including an motion detection for Flash games, favorite Kids in the Hall moments and even a Spanish Autoblog announcement. Enjoy! ...