The recent charity dinner for Lead On Cairns that I helped out at, was quite a success.

The night was kept running smoothly by 4 Macs. Two of the macs (an iBook and either a MacBook Pro or a PowerBook) were being run by the sound/lighting guys.

We had a 24” Aluminium iMac [in the middle of the room] feeding the projector with the great Keynote presentation that I worked on. The keynote presentation on the 24” iMac was also being controlled by the Apple Remote from the presenters lectern.

I also had my 20” Aluminium 2.4Ghz iMac [at the back of the room] to use as preparation for my speech. I decided that I would set up an ad-hoc wireless network to send any last minute changes up to the 24” iMac. Instead of walking back and forth to close and open Keynote.app I set up “Screen Sharing” on the 24” iMac, and connected to the projector machine from my iMac.

As a side-effect of this setup, I decided to remotely control the slide from MY iMac as a failsafe if the remote didn’t work properly

This method of controlling the presentation proved to be quite successful, considering some of the guest speakers had multiple slides.

For more information about the Lead On Cairns Community Dinner visit leadoncairns.com.au.