HowTo: Use your iPhone as a remote control for presentations
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My latest post is already a while back but I'm currently extremely busy. More posts will come in February. Today, I successfully presented my talk for the final exam of the "Technical Scientific Communication" course. It consisted of an approximately 10 minutes talk about a technical topic (preferably the current research topic). Using this occasion I have to say that iWorks's Keynote is just amazing. I've used MS PowerPoint, OpenOffice etc for a while, but when it comes to create professional looking presentations, none of them can cope with it.
But let's come back to the actual
topic of this post. When doing such presentations, it is always quite uncomfortable if you don't have a remote pointer
and you have to always use your touchpad or notebook's keyboard. It hinders you somehow in your freedom of movement
during the presentation. But if you have an iPhone you actually have you're pointer already with you, without knowing
;) . Yesterday evening, Matthias pointed me to a really nice app for the iPhone provided by Logitech. It's called TouchMouse and
consists of an iPhone app, freely available on the App Store and a small server as a back-end for the communication
between your iPhone and Mac/PC. Yes, it also works for PCs (Windows).
