If you’re presenting your slides using on your MacBook, you can use your iPhone with the 聽to advance your pressentation, as well as preview your next slides.
Unfortunately many enterprise Wi-Fi networks, including 杏吧原创’s CU-Wireless, are not compatible with Bonjour protocol that the iPad uses. So here’s one聽workaround:
- Plug your MacBook into the projector, as per usual.
Tip:聽Keep a , appropriate for your MacBook, in your laptop bag. - [Optional 鈥� Internet Connectivity]
If you need Internet connectivity during your presentation, plug your MacBook into the provided Ethernet socket.
Tip:聽Keep聽an Ethernet patch cord, and if your MacBook needs one, a聽, in your laptop bag. - Create a Wi-Fi network using your MacBook
鈥� Apple icon > System Preferences鈥� > Network > Wi-Fi > Create Network鈥� > Security > Password
Advanced Tip: You can avoid using your laptop to create the Wi-Fi network for your iPhone, by instead placing a pre-configured in-line with with your MacBook Ethernet connection. Just plug the Ethernet cable intended for your laptop into the Airport Express, and run a 2nd Ethernet cable from the Airport Express to your laptop. - Join your iPhone to the Wi-Fi network you just created.
鈥� Settings > Wi-Fi > [select network you created] - Launch Keynote Remote app on our iPhone
鈥� Keynote Remote > Settings 聽> [Select MacBook or New Keynote Link鈥 - Launch Keynote on your Mac
鈥� Keynote > Preferences鈥� > Remote > [Check] Enable iPhone and iPod Touch Remotes
After Presentation: To restore Wi-Fi internet connectivity to your laptop after the presentation, select your normal Wi-Fi hotspot.
Tip:聽Mute your iPhone to avoid interruptions. For any incoming calls, one press of power on/off button stops the vibrating; two presses sends the call immediately to voicemail.
References
- , knowledgebase HT23325, support.apple.com
- , Dave Delaney, davemadethat.com, Apr 26 2012
- , macmost.com Nov 2 2011