18 Oct 07 Use your mobile phone to control your presentations with Open Office

Most people when doing any kind of presentation that use slide, prefer to use a wired or wireless mouse to control the flow of this presentation.
Others prefer to ask some one to control it and have to make some kind of sign during the presentation to ask for the next slide (in my last experience the sign was: next slide please!).
I use my cell phone to control my presentations, using this great piece of free software: mOOo Impress Controller

The Software was developer using:

• Open Office UNO (Universal Network Objects)
• Java Micro Edition
• Marge Project

What do you need to play with it?
Mobile:

• at least CLDC 1.0
• at least MIDP 2.0
• JSR-82 (just the package javax.bluetooth). If your mobile has Bluetooth, it does not mean that it implements JSR 82. You can check if it has the btapi at http://www.j2mepolish.org .

Desktop:

• OpenOffice.org 2.2, BrOffice.org 2.2, or compatible.
• Java SE 5.0
• Bluetooth USB Adapter or any other Bluetooth hardware.
• Bluetooth Protocol Stack in your OS (Operating System).

Ok, it is cool, but what are the real benefits of it?
Think about, when people see that you are using your cell phone to control the presentation, you can talk about any shit, they wont hear you, they will be looking at your cell phone
Well, at least if your public is not reading it right now

I tested it here and it just worked like a charm!

After you test it, please give the developers some feedback using this form, event if it did not worked within your environment, this will help them a lot to improve this very cool thing

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Tags: bluetooth, cool factor, freeware, mobile, openoffice, opensource, presentation