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LifeView FlyPresenter CompactFlash Card (type I) for Pocket PC
IA Presenter on the Pocket PC isn’t meant for editing the content of your slides but rather for manipulating the way you present them. In the Edit menu, you can delete certain slide or select the slides you want in your slide show. If you didn’t put transition effects in your presentation on the desktop, you will find all the tools you need to add any transition you want at three speeds and even sound effects or notes. Very convenient! The View menu allows you to show your slide in any supported format including Zoom. The Tools menu gives you the ability to insert slides from another presentation, save files, set up a slide show and set up Options. In Options, you can set up maximum number of undo steps (from 1 to 30), specify color optimization, and select VGA output and mode. VGA Display and Remote Control The VGA connector on the cable has three output modes: VGA, Composite (RCA) and S-video and they are marked so that you know which one is for what display device. Make sure that you select the correct VGA output mode in both LifeView Shadow and IA Presenter applications. As soon as you select Slide Show in the View menu, the presentation slides will display in full screen mode on your Pocket PC and can be displayed in either portrait or landscape mode. There is a shortcut button embedded in the slide show that will trigger a pop-up menu. This menu allows you to control how the slides will be presented and even has a “blackboard” feature that projects a black screen on which you can draw digital ink strokes. The Pen function gives you the ability to write on the slides in various colors and pen widths, and clear the marks you made with the pen after you are done. IA Presenter slide show also offers one of the features most people will need during a presentation, the ability to access notes and view thumbnails of the entire presentation on the Pocket PC without showing it on the big screen. The remote control that comes with FlyPresenter is a pen-sized multi-function device. On one end of the pen is the red laser, which you can use as a pointer during the presentation. On the other end of the pen, you will find an IR port. This works with the large IR port on the CF card to give you the ability to flip the pages of your presentation. The round large size IR port built-in to the CF is a very nice touch. It allows you to use the IR remote without having to line up your PDA’s IR with your remote pen. IA ScreenMirror and Pocket TV Bundled with FlyPresenter, IA ScreenMirror allows you to mirror your handheld’s screen using a projector, CRT or TV monitor. The options in IA ScreenMirror are extensive, giving you rich features to use when presenting demos from your PDA. There are several Layout options in IA ScreenMirror, including View Arrangement, Stretch data to fit and rotate the screen left. If you choose to split the screen, you can use the Switch option to arrange and select the active view. There is also a Refresh option tab as well as a VGA option tab to help you set various refresh rates and VGA resolution settings. While the IA ScreenMirror and IA Album are more suited to show product demos using still images or moving pictures/applications that don’t rely on high frame rates, FlyPresenter offers a better app to show off high frame rate videos, Pocket TV. This application can play MPEG movies as well stream MPEG files. Make sure that you install LifeView’s bundled version of the Pocket TV as this version adds an option in Pocket TV to output the videos through FlyPresenter CF card. We tested a 22 fps (frame per second) movie and could get 14 fps through FlyPresenter on a Dell Axim X5 Advanced 400 MHz Xscale Pocket PC. Pros and Cons Pro: The generous software bundle
makes this product a complete solution for all your presentation
needs. Three VGA/Video outputs will cover most of the projecting
devices you will use with your PDA. The large IR port built-in
on the CF card works with the remote control to free you from having
to position your PDA in line with the remote. Specs and Price Supported PDA Devices and Desktop Machines: Pocket PC 2000 or 2002 with ARM, Xscale, MIPS and SH3 and a Type I or Type II CF slot. Desktop/laptop support includes Windows 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. Supported Video Output: Composite Video (RCA jack), S-Video (mini-Din 4pin) and Selectable NTSC, PAL. Language Support: English, German, French, Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese. One Year Warranty Price: $119
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