Comments on: reminder for speakers/product plug

By: Kris Buytaert

Kris Buytaert — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:19:10 +0000

Why buy a special device for that if you probably already have one in your pocket ?
My GSM (Sony-E .. K800i , and previous models) has that functionality via bluetooth.

By: Travis Reitter

Travis Reitter — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:39:01 +0000

Done and doner! :)

I picked one up today, and just tried it out. It’s a newer version of the same model you pointed to, I think. Instead of the “Play” button, it’s a laser pointer now.

Left is PageUp, Right is PageDown, Stop is ‘b’ (blanks the screen in OO.o (and obviously PowerPoint)). Pretty straightforward, Just works. Thanks for the suggestion! :)

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:09:47 +0000

I’ve used a regular wireless mouse for this with some success. In magicpoint left-click goes to the next slide, and right-click goes to the previous one. I’ve switched to Evince recently, where only the left button is useful, but I don’t go back all that often.

By: Planet Mg

Planet Mg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:07:31 +0000

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By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:30:00 +0000

Sorry about that, Paul :)

The keyspan does look nice; I generally don’t want to mouse around during my presentations so I’ve been totally happy with the Kensington, but I can see that wouldn’t fit for everybody, especially anyone who wants to do real demos and not just slideware.

By: Paul Cooper

Paul Cooper — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:51:25 +0000

Oh, so now you tell us. I have the keyspan, so that’s one room down. A trip to PC-World tonight and I’ll get the others kitted out.

By: Planet Pgc

Planet Pgc — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:49:09 +0000

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By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:03:52 +0000

Funny story about that, stephen.. I was doing a panel a couple years ago, and a fellow panelist offers me his kensington thingy. I politely demur, since I’m using Linux. He says ‘no, no, try it.’ I plug it in, and boom, it Just Works. No config, no nothing. I am excited; I am completely ready to digress from my topic (network security) and pimp how this Just Worked .

At this point, of course, my laptop fails to actually speak to the projector, so instead of doing the talk with the nifty remote thingy, I do the talk completely sans slides at all. Oops. Yay Linux.

By: stephen o'grady

stephen o'grady — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:31:45 +0000

and it works w/ Linux? i’m impressed.

By: Richard Godbee

Richard Godbee — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:47 +0000

An an alternative, the Keyspan PR-US2 can function as a full-fledged two-button mouse, operates at 433 MHz instead of 2.4 GHz, and includes a built-in laser pointer. Its receiver doesn't stow inside of the remote like the Kensington, though. (Cool feature.)