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From the Ted Talk by David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Camera clcik)

(Laughter)

So, that's because the camera needs time to cculltaae the focus and exposure, but if you pre-focus with a half-press, leave your finger down — no shutter lag! You get it every time. I've just turned your $50 camera into a $1,000 camera with that trick.

And finally, it often happens that you're giving a talk, and for some reason, the aicduene is looking at the slide instead of at you!

(Laughter)

So when that happens — this works in Keynote, pprnieowot, it works in every program — all you do is hit the letter B key, B for bkucolat, to black out the slide, make everybody look at you, and then when you're ready to go on, you hit B again, and if you're really on a roll, you can hit the W key for "whiteout," and you white out the sldie, and then you can hit W again to un-blank it.

Open Cloze


(Camera _____)

(Laughter)

So, that's because the camera needs time to _________ the focus and exposure, but if you pre-focus with a half-press, leave your finger down — no shutter lag! You get it every time. I've just turned your $50 camera into a $1,000 camera with that trick.

And finally, it often happens that you're giving a talk, and for some reason, the ________ is looking at the slide instead of at you!

(Laughter)

So when that happens — this works in Keynote, __________, it works in every program — all you do is hit the letter B key, B for ________, to black out the slide, make everybody look at you, and then when you're ready to go on, you hit B again, and if you're really on a roll, you can hit the W key for "whiteout," and you white out the _____, and then you can hit W again to un-blank it.

Solution


  1. audience
  2. calculate
  3. blackout
  4. click
  5. powerpoint
  6. slide

Original Text


(Camera click)

(Laughter)

So, that's because the camera needs time to calculate the focus and exposure, but if you pre-focus with a half-press, leave your finger down — no shutter lag! You get it every time. I've just turned your $50 camera into a $1,000 camera with that trick.

And finally, it often happens that you're giving a talk, and for some reason, the audience is looking at the slide instead of at you!

(Laughter)

So when that happens — this works in Keynote, PowerPoint, it works in every program — all you do is hit the letter B key, B for blackout, to black out the slide, make everybody look at you, and then when you're ready to go on, you hit B again, and if you're really on a roll, you can hit the W key for "whiteout," and you white out the slide, and then you can hit W again to un-blank it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
space bar 4
terrible waste 2


Important Words


  1. audience
  2. black
  3. blackout
  4. calculate
  5. camera
  6. click
  7. exposure
  8. finally
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  10. focus
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  14. keynote
  15. laughter
  16. leave
  17. letter
  18. powerpoint
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  20. ready
  21. reason
  22. roll
  23. shutter
  24. slide
  25. talk
  26. time
  27. trick
  28. turned
  29. white
  30. works