Andrew Powell

I will be speaking at the the Nashville CFUG tonight on Integrating Spry and CF. This presentation will be broadcast via breeze. Find all the details at the Nashville CFUG website.

Apple's Keynote is by far my favourite presentation program. It's everything PowerPoint wishes it could be, and more. I ran into a slight problem, though. I wanted to use Keynote for my Breeze meetings. There is no plug-in for Keynote like there is for PowerPoint, so this posed a slight problem. This is something that I wish Adobe would please correct....but I digress. Breeze is a great platform for online meetings, but there is a slight wrinkle with the new Intel powered macs. If you have downloaded and installed the Breeze Add-In for OS X and tried to host a Breeze meeting, you may have noticed that functionality such as screen sharing not work if you are on an Intel powered mac. The Breeze Add-In, however, does work on the PPC macs. How do you get around this dodgy little issue? Wait until Adobe releases an Intel mac compatible add-in? Nope. You do it the Apple way. Use Rosetta. This has only been tested with Safari, so other browsers, YMMV. Go to Applications and Get Info (apple+i) on Safari. Check "Open Using Rosetta". This will make it run in PPC mode. Your Breeze add-in will work like a charm. You can then share your screen and play your Keynote movie, which will then go down the wire to the meeting participants. This is, if nothing else, a total hack and totally unsupported by Adobe, but it seems to work pretty well. BTW, yes, I'm still calling it Breeze on purpose.