{"id":2244,"date":"2008-02-05T11:35:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T11:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/05\/gadget-query-presentation-remo\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T11:35:46","slug":"gadget-query-presentation-remo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/05\/gadget-query-presentation-remo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadget Query: Presentation Remotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be giving a bunch of presentations in the coming year, mostly using PowerPoint on my Tablet PC. One of the awkward things about using it in class is that I have to keep walking back across the room to change slides (I prefer physically pointing at the screen to waving a laser pointer around). Thus, I am considering buying a presentation remote&#8211; one of those wireless clicker things that lets you move back and forth without being at the computer.<\/p>\n<p>This being the Internet, I&#8217;m sure people have Opinions about this. So, what sort of presentation remote should I buy?<\/p>\n<p>Terms, conditions, and other fine print:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve looked at Amazon, and the two most likely possibilities seem to be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FPGP4U\/ref=dp_cp_ob_title_0\">Kensington 33374<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0007KVK8E\/ref=pd_cp_e_1?pf_rd_p=250314601&#038;pf_rd_s=center-41&#038;pf_rd_t=201&#038;pf_rd_i=B000FPGP4U&#038;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_r=0NH70HMHJQN1DNG1WQNP\">Logitech 2.4 GHz Cordless<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am open to other suggestions, though.<\/p>\n<p>The really essential requirements are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Must work with Windows Vista<\/li>\n<li>Must work on a Lenovo Tablet PC running Windows Vista<\/li>\n<li>Must <strong>actually work<\/strong> on my Lenovo X61 running Vista, not some hypothetical other tablet owned by a person who has better luck with Microsoft products than I do<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I have essentially zero patience for dicking around with gadgets that don&#8217;t work properly because of some device-specific driver problem.<\/p>\n<p>I am not interested in:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hearing about the evils of PowerPoint<\/li>\n<li>Hearing about the evils of Vista. Believe me, I know.<\/li>\n<li>Hearing about the wonders of MacOS, UBUNTU!, Linux, or any other hardware or software system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be giving a bunch of presentations in the coming year, mostly using PowerPoint on my Tablet PC. One of the awkward things about using it in class is that I have to keep walking back across the room to change slides (I prefer physically pointing at the screen to waving a laser&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/05\/gadget-query-presentation-remo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gadget Query: Presentation Remotes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}