Targus Bluetooth Presenter for MAC
I had recently bought Targus Bluetooth Presenter, but had a tough time making it get recognised by my MacBook. Few learnings that might help those very few people who might have bought it [ Its no longer in production, if I am right ]
1> You need to press the "Power on" button for quite sometime for the device to switch on. [ Atleast 5 seconds ]
2> I had OSX 10.9 Mavericks and it detected my device automatically. But, try to switch on the device and scan for bluetooth devices on your Mac in various cycles. Once Mac detects it for the first time, it automatically detects it the next time you switch on your device.
3> The next most horrifying thing was that when I used the "Next" button on device while playing my keynote presentation, the slides moved to the "next slide" instead of moving to the "next transition" !!! I had to press the keyboard "Right Arrow" and "Left Arrow" to display the builds and animations on the slides. This completely defeated my purpose of using this device.
4> Thanks to "Jan Rychter", I was able to find a workable solution to this.
5> You need to install "Karabiner" [ formerly known as KeyRemap4Macbook" and follow the instructions given in Jan Rychter's blog article : https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/2011/3/8/making-your-targus-bluetooth-presenter-actually-usable.html
6> One problem I faced, was in identifying where the "private.xml" file was present. After reading the documentation for Karabiner at https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/document.html.en#privatexml I figured out out that this file can be accessed under the "Misc & Uninstall" tab.
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| Targus BlueTooth Presenter |
1> You need to press the "Power on" button for quite sometime for the device to switch on. [ Atleast 5 seconds ]
2> I had OSX 10.9 Mavericks and it detected my device automatically. But, try to switch on the device and scan for bluetooth devices on your Mac in various cycles. Once Mac detects it for the first time, it automatically detects it the next time you switch on your device.
3> The next most horrifying thing was that when I used the "Next" button on device while playing my keynote presentation, the slides moved to the "next slide" instead of moving to the "next transition" !!! I had to press the keyboard "Right Arrow" and "Left Arrow" to display the builds and animations on the slides. This completely defeated my purpose of using this device.
4> Thanks to "Jan Rychter", I was able to find a workable solution to this.
5> You need to install "Karabiner" [ formerly known as KeyRemap4Macbook" and follow the instructions given in Jan Rychter's blog article : https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/2011/3/8/making-your-targus-bluetooth-presenter-actually-usable.html
6> One problem I faced, was in identifying where the "private.xml" file was present. After reading the documentation for Karabiner at https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/document.html.en#privatexml I figured out out that this file can be accessed under the "Misc & Uninstall" tab.
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| Private.xml file for adding your own key Remappings |
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