Ever had the pain of asking someone to control the slides when you are giving a business presentation? Here is an awesome solution for you -- an application in Android market to help you control your presentation from your Android phone. While there are lots of applications available in the market to control your PC from the Android device, Gmote stands out from all of them in terms of the features offered. Using Gmote, you can control the presentation on your PC / laptop, play media files, browse through the contents on your laptop, etc. Gmote application requires a server to be up and running on the PC side. Gmote client runs on the Android device and communicates with the server on your PC. Gmote client can talk to the server over WiFi as well as the mobile 3G network (which not many applications support). Another good thing is Gmote has support for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Installation procedure & Configuration
- On your android device, download and install the application ‘Gmote 2.0’ from the market.
- Download the Gmote server from here. Need to have admin privileges to install the same.
- Start the server on the PC which you want to control.
- Gmote server will prompt you to set a password to your PC. The same has to used while connecting from the phone.
- After that it will show the Media Path selector. Choose the location of media files which you wish to run remotely.
- Start the client on the Android device. It will prompt you for the server details and the password.
- Done. You are all set to control your PC from the phone.
Controlling the presentation from the phone
- Make sure you have done all the configurations mentioned above.
- Select ‘Browse’ from the menu and navigate to the power point file (.ppt / .pps)
- Choose the option ‘Play on Computer’ from the file browser.
- Click on the power point file to launch it on your PC.
- Once the presentation is launched, Gmote remote control screen will be shown.
- Press the play button to start the presentation. Use the left and right keys to navigate through the slides.
What else I can do with Gmote?
- Use your Android phone as a remote mouse / keyboard for your PC.
- You can play the media files on your PC from the phone.
- Streaming of media files on your PC to the phone.
- You can control the DVD drive on your PC.
- Browse through the shared files on your PC.
- Open a web page on your PC from the phone.
Check out the help page of Gmote. The only other application which comes closer to Gmote is RemoteDroid.
-- Varun
This is good advice, thank you for sharing. This is very useful in practice. I advise all android users, try this. Lastly, I can add this http://www.pptstar.com/powerpoint/business/. Very nice and professional templates. Always come in handy. Good luck.
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