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Have you ever needed to give a slide show for a school project, but didn’t want to have to manually click on your laptop’s keyboard or mouse button to advance to the next slide?  Well, if you have a MacBook or a MacBook Pro and a program called iWork installed, you can stop having to interfere with the flow of the presentation by going to your computer and instead, use a remote to control your presentation.
All MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops come with a small white remote, the Apple Remote (you now have to buy the Apple Remote separately), which allows you to control your computer wirelessly.  Most people probably associate this with Apple’s Front Row software.  However, it can also be used with a program called Keynote, a program similar to Microsoft PowerPoint that allows you to make slideshows.  Keynote, which is part of Apple’s productivity suite called iWork, is a powerful program that allows you to create many different types of presentations.  Once you’ve completed your slideshow and it’s time to present it, instead of using your keyboard or mouse button, you can use the Apple Remote, controlling the slideshow with the back and forward buttons.
Now, you do need iWork and either a MacBook or MacBook Pro in order for this to work and since iWork does not come preinstalled on a new Mac, there is a good chance you may not have the program.  However, if you do, try using Keynote the next time you need to give a presentation and find out just how helpful a remote can be.