Yesterday, we looked at how Power Manager can be used to automatically open and start a Keynote presentation. Today, we will create an event to stop the presentation at a specific time each day.
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Our thanks to Frank Petrie, Macsimum News, for reviewing Power Manager 4. Frank gave Power Manager full marks – a 10/10 rating.
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Ever wondered how conference venues, theatres, and businesses control their large screen televisions and projectors? Most organisations use a surprisingly simple combination of a Mac and some presentation software.
Apple's Keynote presentation software
The Mac need not be particularly powerful – a Mac Mini is more than enough. The presentation software is frequently either Apple’s Keynote or Microsoft’s PowerPoint.
Our Power Manager software fits into this combination by providing control over when the Mac is running and for starting and stopping presentations.
Power Manager is an obvious choice for automatically starting up and shutting down your Mac, but it might be less obvious for starting and stopping presentations.
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A VNC server is included in every edition of Mac OS X, including Mac OS X 10.6 – aka Snow Leopard. You can start the server through a hidden check box in the Sharing preferences.
A VNC server lets you control your Mac from another computer using the VNC protocol. With recent editions of Mac OS X, Apple has moved to a more sophisticated method of screen sharing. However, a traditional VNC server is still included but is turned off by default.
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