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best remote control app for PowerPoint/Keynote?
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Aug 2, 2008, 01:48 PM
 
I used to have a Treo650 and used SallingClicker on it to control PowerPoint/Keynote presentations via bluetooth. Salling Clicker is wonderful, but Jonas Salling won't indicate what his future plans are, and of course the iPhone is severely limited in terms of what it can do via bluetooth. I know that there's RemoteBuddy which uses AJAX to remote control apps such as presentation programs, but one's iPhone and one's Mac have to be on the same LAN for it to work, don't they? I'm worried that that won't work at my school -- for example, Remote can't find my iTunes library when I logged into my school's wireless network.

So what's the best solution right now for remote control of Mac programs via the iPhone?
     
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Aug 2, 2008, 03:48 PM
 
What type of Mac do you have?
If you have one that came with a remote, you can use that same remote to control Keynote.
     
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Aug 2, 2008, 04:37 PM
 
Originally Posted by mdc View Post
What type of Mac do you have?
If you have one that came with a remote, you can use that same remote to control Keynote.
PowerBook G4
     
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Aug 2, 2008, 06:54 PM
 
Just get one of these USB dongles / presenter thingies. They do the job, and they don't cost a lot anymore. That is, if PPT / Keynote is all you want to control.

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Aug 2, 2008, 07:08 PM
 
if i phone must be used, i don't know,
if not, then apple wireless mouse + software for mac " steer mouse" , very nice and that's my combinatons, not only keynote or ppt, but any software indeed..... ve a look of the steermouse
     
   
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