Episode 47: Meetings & Presentations, who's controlling the laptop

Hi Everyone,

Here are some tips for your next workshop or meeting. I’m also adding some updates to previous TODs (Tips of the day).

Remote Desktop (iPad)
This is a tip for the techs out there. Do you have meetings with multiple presenters (multiple PowerPoint, Keynote), or a presenter that may need a little help with technology? Try remote desktop support. You can sit at the back of the room an monitor or control the presenters laptop from your iPad. You can switch to the next PowerPoint without having to go the laptop, pull up a webpage and more. There are several apps out there (Splashtop, LogMeIn, etc). If you have a GoToAssist subscription, the GoToAssist app is a great tool.

Meeting Agenda (iPad)
Have you been to a meeting and the person next to you is highlighting or making notes to the agenda on their iPad? Try emailing your agendas in a PDF format, then users can use any of the PDF apps to take notes on your meeting. Looking for a PDF app, try GoodReader, iAnnotate or PDF Expert. Like with any app, check the review, email the group or ask another user.

Camera: smile for the camera  :- )
I see you out there, taking pictures of the event/conference on your iPhone (this is an update to Episode 37 & 41). Remember, you can use the volume up button to take pictures. Okay, now you have to email them from the conference. Here’s a couple things to remember. When you email your photo, you are limited to 5 at a time. If you select more, the email option will go away. Here’s another thing. If you send several emails with 5 photos in each email, each of the files will have the same file name (photo1.jpg, photo 2.jpg, etc). Let the person know that they will have to rename the file before they import or copy the next group.

Keyboard Shortcut (iPad)
Here’s a quick tip for your iPad. Need to type an apostrophe or quotes? Instead of switching your keyboard by pressing on [.?123] button, try holding down the [ , ] button for apostrophe and [ . ] for quotes. Remember the other shortcuts as well. The [.com] button and the [ . ] in the email keyboard (when you see the @ symbol) has net, org, com, us & edu. Did you know that you don’t need to type .com when surfing the web on you iPhone or iPad? If the domain name is any of the other .net, .gov, etc, you will need to type it out.

Here’s a new app to try. “SayHi Translate” (on sale $0.99). It’s a translation app with a voice interface. You can almost carry a conversation with this app.

Hope you’ll enjoy the tips and remember to pass on your must have apps and tips.