Quickly move bullet points from one PowerPoint slide to another

PowerPoint’s Outline pane displays most of a presentation’s content. Anything you add to a text box — titles and bullet points for instance — will show up in the Outline pane. Now, you probably know that you can rearrange slides in Outline view by simply clicking the Move Up and Move Down buttons on the Outlining toolbar. What you might not know is that you can also move text and bullet points from slide to slide. Simply highlight the text or bullet. Then, click and drag. It couldn’t be simpler! It’s an easy fix when the message just doesn’t flow right.

Nielsen stats: a lot of iPhones out there, but also a lot of everything else

Fact: most phones last. Thing is, for us (and likely many of you), they last far longer than our clinically-diagnosed Gadget Attention Deficit Disorder would ever tolerate — but for your dad, your sister, your college buddy with the hand-me-down ZEOS Pantera running Windows 95, or anyone weary of re-upping a two-year commitment, a handset can easily become a serious long-term investment. That helps explain why Motorola’s venerable RAZR series remains staggeringly high on Nielsen’s latest US phone usage report — third place, to be exact, at 2.3 percent of all subscribers behind the iPhone 3G at 4 percent and RIM’s BlackBerry Curve line at 3.7 percent. Needless to say, that doesn’t mean the ancient V3 line is still in third place for sales — it’s more a testament to the staggeringly huge RAZR user base Moto managed to develop over the years, many of whom scored their phones at sub-$100 price points as an attractive, midrange value in the phone’s twilight and have no intention of upgrading any time soon if they don’t have to. Maybe the most interesting part of this is that two V3 variants are also topping 2009′s most-recycled list, so they’re definitely getting taken out of circulation — it just might take a few years yet before you don’t know anyone that uses one, that’s all.

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Google Nexus One stands with iPhone and Hero, interface gets a 5-minute walkthrough

The Google Nexus One trickle continues. Today’s two menu items include a 5-minute demonstration of the Android 2.1 interface — shaky, sure, but it’s a pretty thorough rundown of all the menus. We’re also serving up some low-resolution picture comparisons of the Nexus One laying side-by-side with the iPhone and HTC Hero. It
still eludes us how all these leaking parties don’t seem to have in their possession a decent DSLR or camcorder (feel free to give us a buzz, we’ll gladly help out). Video after the break.

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BlackBerry services down in North America yet again?

Look, BlackBerrys are always supposed to do a few things well: 1) grab your email in real time off an Exchange server; 2) make you look important; and 3) work. It seems, though, that we’re working on our third major North American outage here in less than a month, with reports flowing in that users connected to BIS are having trouble with Messenger, web browsing, and apps that consume data (though email is inexplicably unaffected). Anyone out there seeing problems?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

BlackBerry services down in North America yet again? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Verizon Samsung Omnia II impressions

When the Omnia II first appeared on our radar, two things caught our attention: TouchWiz 2.0 and Windows Mobile 6.5. To be honest, neither of these items really piqued our interest: we knew what to expect from WinMo and had serious reservations about Samsung’s latest and greatest UI. That said, we were more than willing to suspend judgement until we saw her in action. With bullet points that include a 3.7-inch AMOLED display, 800MHz processor, and 8GB storage (before you even get to your microSD card), one could honestly hold out hope for a pretty decent product. Did the handset make for a satisfying, well-rounded smartphone? Or did it just find new ways of repeating the same old errors? You’ll have to read on to find out.

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Verizon Samsung Omnia II impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia Image Space: like Google Maps Street View, but you’re doing the work

Nokia’s added an interesting new collaborative picture-sharing tool to its Beta Labs stable this week with the introduction of Image Space, which — like our headline suggests — is kind of like a crowdsourced Street View as best as we can tell. The idea is that you upload photos to your Flickr account from a GPS- and compass-enabled Nokia phone (the N97 and N97 Mini, for instance) and head on over to Nokia’s tool, where the photo metadata is read and used along with others’ shots to construct a three-dimensional view of the area. Of course, the key to the success of a product like this is mass buy-in, so c’mon, Nokia owners, these pictures aren’t taking themselves — get outside and start shooting. Follow the break for a quick official intro of the system.

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Epic shows off Unreal Engine 3 running on iPhone / iPod touch

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Epic shows off Unreal Engine 3 running on iPhone / iPod touch originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New Bada UI screens look new-agey yet familiar

Okay, so HTC doesn’t own exclusive rights to create a flip-clock displays on phones, but the style is something of a hallmark of Sense UI and now here one is in Samsung’s Bada platform — though seemingly tucked away in the date setting window. That’s just one of a set of new screens uncovered at Samsung Hub showing off a media player that loves to show off album art and to truncate artist names, a photo browser full of delicious stock imagery, and that very familiar looking home screen to the left above. Things really don’t look bad at all, but we’re still having a hard time getting excited about this one.

New Bada UI screens look new-agey yet familiar originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia’s Kamppi Trial succeeds at indoor positioning, gets shelved anyway (video)

Sure, GPS can get you to the mall, but can it route you from the Bon Ton down to Penney’s? Not so much. Indoor navigation is still generally a paper map reliant affair, something Nokia attempted to do away with at the Kamppi Shopping Center in Helsinki. The service, also called Kamppi, relied on wireless LAN to position people within the complex, meaning anyone with an S60 handset with WiFi could simply browse to kamppi.nokia.mobi, see their current position, locate their friends, and find their way around as shown after the break. 15,000 people tried it out successfully over the summer and so the service is receiving a fitting send-off: it’s been “archived.” Nokia is pledging to use the tech in future products, but we expect to be reliant on those giant, obelisk-mounted maps for many years to come.

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China Telecom follows China Mobile’s lead, hooks up with RIM to offer BlackBerry

China Mobile’s recent announcement that it’d be getting really tight with RIM — finally — to offer a more official, customized BlackBerry experience to the locals than it had before must have sent off a wave of jealousy among carriers, because competitor China Telecom has wasted no time in following on with an announcement of its own. No roadmap has been set for when we might see devices in the marketplace — the company says that it’s still ironing out specifics with RIM — but we figure this should be an easier rollout than China Mobile, since Telecom uses a hybrid (but well-understood) GSM / EV-DO infrastructure as opposed to Mobile’s essentially one-off TD-SCDMA network. At a glance, it seems like devices like the the Storm and Tour are basically ready to rock here, but there’s no question RIM will need to work both with the carrier (to tailor the BlackBerry experience to the needs of a Chinese audience) and with the government, which probably doesn’t love RIM’s infrastructure any more than India does.

China Telecom follows China Mobile’s lead, hooks up with RIM to offer BlackBerry originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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