Today I have a keynote presentation for my class but I couldn’t find my Apple Remote, so I think I can use iPhone to control my keynote wirelessly. I did purchased a $1.99 program called “Pointer”, a REMOTE FOR POWERPOINT AND KEYNOTE from iTunes [The developer link] and it worths every penny.
This program did more than just forward the slides. It consists of pointer, timer and presenter note. First thing to do is to install PointerServer (download from developer site mentioned above) on Mac machine, so iPhone can be able to communicate with Mac.
After launching the pointer on iPhone, it will show the selected Mac (it will not show if PonterServer is not installed). The presentation page shows up once I click on the selected machine. The presentation page consists of Previous, Next button so I can forward/reverse the slides. I can also change the pointer icon or the mode from pointer to cursor. The presentation page also include the presentation note which makes it very easy for me to follow the item, I want to talk about. In addition, the timer on this page is very helpful to control my presentation time.
PS. The slide image will display on the pointer 1.1 on iPhone.
#1 by Rick on November 6th, 2009
Thanks for telling us about this. But to me it’s always seemed preferable to have the presentation actually on the iPhone/iPod touch. With the traditional iPods, I often used to export presentations to iPhoto and sync to the iPod, and show the presentations that way, but I’ve been wondering if there’s a better way these days.