Monday, March 19, 2012

Macbook and Keynote Presenter

What a job trying to connect these two.

Not really the fault of either the mac or the presenter remote running on my iPhone but a direct result of the hotel's really annoying wireless network policy.

The network logs out as soon as you stop using the browser so you have to log back in again. The information is never retained so if the phone goes to sleep after a few minutes the link between remote and mac is lost.

Sadly I don't see a way to use the remote via bluetooth. This seems to work if the presentation is running on an ipad but not on the mac.

In the end I discovered that I can create a wireless network on the mac, log into it with the phone, link the remote with keynote and (phew) it all works.



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