Shuffle Slides

ah Brian,
I wasn't aware he was playing some sort of "memory" game here. I thought flashcard was a memory piece of hardware.

He should export his keynote slides to pdf or jpg, then open up in iPhoto and display randomly, would that do it?

That would do it. (though it would only do it for the questions, he'd have to mark the cards and keep a key handy to check his answers against).

I didn't notice you weren't from America. Flash cards are indeed double sided memory cards with the question or problem on one side and the anser on the other. He's most likely got two slides for each card, one for the front, one for the back.

The memory companies use of that term came MUCH later when they decided it was a nice name since they had created little cards that use Flash memory.

Here's a slightly wacky solution that I just tried and works not badly. It doesn't make true shuffle, but it would introduce some randomness. Create a navigation pallet out of small squares. Enable hyperlinks on each of them, one linking to each page. Set them all up in a nice neat array with no space between them and no border so that they look just like one rectangle. After setting all the hyperlinks, group them to make them easy to transport. Then paste this group onto each of the pages. Then when you are viewing your flash cards instead of just clicking anywhere on the card, click in a random spot of the palet. For a fancier version, take out the fill and make it invisible and cover your whole screen and close you eyes and click. You would just need to use the right arrow key for showing your answer.

In the view menu from Keynote, select either the Light Table or the Navigator. In both you can change the order of your slides by dragging.

uh, that would kind of defeat the whole point if he can see what order he's putting them in.

You could probably do a random re-ordering of the slides using AppleScript (and perhaps Automator). But that might take a fair bit of effort.

There is an excellent and inexpensive shareware program called iFlash that you might want to look at.

do you know of any free and not trial softwares that are similar to the iFlash?

for windows!