I like the fact that the board is so big you can use your whole arm to operate the huge scroll-bars and pulldown menus from the projected computer image. It gets you out from behind the lecturn more. You can stay out front and more in touch with your audience until you need to go back to keyboard on lecturn to type any text into a dialogue box or form.
Just came back from a meeting with Belinda and Ellie re the Forio.com terms of service. Also got some great feedback for a few additions to the Guidelines for working with Externally hosted websites that I’m working on.
I recently bought a new car stereo and CD player, and wooed by the blurb on the box, bought one with blutooth capability for hands free mobile phone calls (have iPhone, so that should work) as well as wireless playing songs from my iPhone.
The latter works so well but occasionally freaks me out by switching itself on and playing a random choice of songs all by itself. I don’t know what kind of settings I’ve got on, but I swear, I get in the car and the next thing I know is that John Mayer or Pink or Pantera or my sons incomprehensible Spanish death-metal come blaring out of the car speakers.
But as a hands-free car kit, it’s a dead loss. I can hear my caller brilliantly, but they can barely hear me so I spend the call yelling at my stereo. I’m not even sure that there’s a microphone in the stereo, so them I try yelling at the iPhone (does it use it’s microphone to pick up what I’m saying????? Dunno, the instructions booklet left me none the wiser.)
End result, tire of yelling very quickly and purchase a “real” hands free car-kit. It’s a Contour, and it clips to your sun-visor. It has a microphone on the end of a little swing out boom, so you can point it towards your mouth, and also volume control.
And what really gets me, is although it comes with a charger (obviously runs off a battery), I’ve only had to charge it up once in nearly 6 months!! How come??? I know I may only use it 3 or 4 times a week, but still, pretty amazing battery power.
I’m getting used to the new software that lets me call people and answer the phone via the computer. Means you spend more time with the headset/mic on (feeling like Madonna or I guess your pick of pop stars). But the plus is your hands are free to do other things, like open up emails or websites or info/docs that pertain to your conversation. No neck crick re holding phone to ear. I like it!
Also the search and dial function is heaps easier and faster than logging on to intranet and searching for people’s phone extensions there.
And I like having the webcam so I can see the person at the other end. If they have theirs turned on, that is.
