The Apple Remote that comes free with Apple Macs can do more than it does by default. PocketMac Remote extends the capabilities of the Apple Remote to include controlling Apple’s Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
Information Appliance Associates (IAA) has released their new presentation tool, PocketMac Remote, a software advance for Intel Mac owners who want to do more with their Apple Remote.
“We’re thrilled to release PocketMac Remote,” said Tim Goggin, VP of Sales & Marketing for IAA, in the press release. “With so many business people taking their PowerPoint and Keynote presentations on the road, it just makes sense to add the functionality to control those presentations with the cool little remote that comes with all of the new Intel Macs.”
PocketMac Remote works by re-routing the play/pause, volume control and forward/back buttons so they effectively control business people’s presentations in either Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple’s Keynote application.
Goggin continues, “This great little app works. And it’s so simple to use…just run it, open your presentation and you’re ready to talk in front of a crowd of 10 or 10,000.”
A special bonus report on maximizing presentations will be included for the first 1,000 customers.
PocketMac Remote is available for US$9.95.
More info and download link here.
MacDailyNews Take: Presenters who have Macs and use PowerPoint are doing themselves and their audiences a disservice. Switch to Apple’s Keynote and your presentations will improve drastically, as will your audience’s mood.
So, can i take my iMac remote and use it with my old TiPB, which is what I use for my Keynote presentations?
I love macs, I do not need to be told how to think on every news story you list. Just the facts mam.
I use Mira. Haven’t tried it on Powerpoint, but it is listed as an app it can control. And Keynote, of course.
Rwinters,
You’re not being told “how to think,” you’re being told what MDN thinks. Hence the designation “MacDailyNews Take.”
Agreed. PowerPoint compared to Keynote is like MicrosoftPaint to Photoshop.
PowerPoint is just pathetic.
I don’t know about everybody else, but my remote already can control Keynote presentations.
Speaking of crappy software, have you seen MS Expression Studio? The web app is FrontPage with heavy blue eye shadow and bright red lipstick. Oink.
I just gave a Keynote yesterday and let me tell you, it never ceases to awe the awedience [pun]. I like to put the reflections transition on one of the first slides because it never fails to perk up the people in the room. iWork was a great value, even on my budget.
Ermm, Not just you buffalo but I’ve been using my Apple remote with Keynote for months on my MacBook Pro!
It just works?
Why do I need a $9.99 app if it works out of the box?
I’m in a business referral group and I used keynote (with the remote, worked fine for me too) and one of the members, a web designer asked how did I do the presentations. He thought they were amazing and asked if I had used flash. He was surprised to say the least that I used Keynote. It looks so simple people don’t take it seriously.
MDN word = OPEN, open your minds.
Wonder if it works with our presentation software? About two weeks and counting until we unleash our PR campaign. We’re still tweaking the site, so cut us some slack. Here’s a glimpse of the future of presentations:
http://www.richterstudios.com/products.html
How can you operate that thing if you have trotter’s?
That is what they are trying to tell the Balmy one’s Gnu’s!:-)
For Gnu’s, see Lemmings.
nothing beats remote buddy for remote enhancement on a mac. It does sooooo many more things in addition to powerpoint and keynote.
I tried to buy the app but I couldn’t due to the fact they don’t sell it to people living in my country (Slovakia/Central Europe).
hey people, can you help me somehow?
Guess what PocketMac Remote… Your program is worthless cause keynote already works with the Apple Remote. I know this, cause I have used it before.
Uhhh….you can control keynote presentations with the remote as is, no software required. I did it a couple months ago.
@No Squirt For You
Thats why I went to dreamweaver. That and I now don’t have to turn my PC on to do the web sites.
anaknipedro,
Try one of my favorite Keynote tricks next time. Find a photo that you wish to make the background of a slide. Put it on a slide as a picture with full opacity. Then, on the next slide use that picture as the background with either a white or black square covering the whole slide with a transparency of about 50%. Add a slow (5-8 second) dissolve transition between the two. It will look like the picture is being “burned” into the slide to make it the background. Really freakin’ cool!!!
iGo Now,
Next time also tell him that Keynote only costs $40 (half of $79) and will definitely shit his pants and then feel the rectal pain of Microshaft charging him $300 for PowerPoint.