Apple even called out Adobe on this issue when they were demoing Snow Leopard and Safari 4’s plugin-level sandboxing.  They Apple was the first manufacturer to ditch the legacy serial ports (they never supported parallel ports in Macs) for USB and they were the first to ditch the floppy. Source Also note the time (13:04) in the demo when Steve Jobs visited the New York Times web site and had a “missing plugin” icon where I’m sure by now, you’ve read enough about the iPad to think, “oh, come on, not another article about that thing .”

The problem is when I want to demo something that’s running locally on my PC… 4 Ron ~ 16 February 2009 Very timely post Cameron as I’ve been asked myself to give a few presentations from time to time. I’ve also had good luck with the Kensington 33374 because it only uses the batteries when the USB receiver is plugged into the computer, and when you’re not using it, there’s a secret compartment that pops right back into the presenter so you don’t lose it. 20 tips for better conference speaking ~ 16 February 2009 ~ View from on stage as I’m preparing to speak at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008.