Griffin Technology Airclick USB Remote Control for Mac & PC

Average customer rating: 3.0

Useless for Powerpoint presentation
made MISTAKE buying this!
Can't listen to iTunes without it.
Works better than expected.
Another useless piece of plastic

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Griffin Technology Airclick USB Remote Control for Mac & PC

Manufacturer: Griffin Technology
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0007NWM1K
2005-04-15

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Product Description

AirClick uses RF signals that travel through walls for control anywhere in your home or outside, up to 60 feet away. The five button remote allows for play/pause, next track, previous track, and volume up and down. A hold switch on the side prevents accidentally disturbing your musical nirvana. The remote has a clip on it for convenient attachment.

Customer Reviews:

Useless for Powerpoint presentation.......2007-05-18

This remote works OK with iTunes and iPhoto. However, my main reason for purchasing this (a while ago) was to use it during Powerpoint presentations. This is where the bad begins: clicks take a while to register on a Powerbook during a presentation, especially while transitioning to a graphic-rich slide, so you have no clue for a second whether you actually pushed a button on the remote or not. This is not bad by itself, as I could adjust to waiting for a moment for a slide to transition. However, this remote is programmed such that if you keep the button pushed for just a tad longer than an instant (half a second), the presentation JUMPS TO THE LAST SLIDE, such that the presenter has to scramble, apologise, and manually return to the previous slide during the presentation! This happened to me during the actual presentation and almost caused an embarassment and surely set me back an entire minute. This behavior is not only bad, it is obnoxious, an example of garbage design that trashes the potentially good product. Granted, this is probably not the hardware's fault but the pathetic design of the Airclick bundled driver, but in this case the two must be used together and therefore can not be separated for the purpose of the review.

Also, my Powerbook (and a Powermac) does not sleep when the Airclick dongle is left in the USB port. This defect is not as blatantly bad as that concerning Powerpoint, but it does illustrate the overal attitude of the developers of the Airclick product.

made MISTAKE buying this!.......2007-04-23

I like the compact design, but it just doesn't work well. This remote has an annoying habit of jumping to the end of a power point show, instead of advancing one slide. This is off-putting to an audience and cumbersome for a presenter. Ugh. I just ordered the Kensington remote to replace this one. Also note: for Mac users, this remote only works with MS Office 2004, not earlier versions of the software.

Can't listen to iTunes without it........2007-04-01

This is the most critical part of making iTunes into a whole-house music solution. Combine this with the Apple AirPort Express with Air Tunes (M9470LL/A) and the GRIFFIN TECHNOLOGY RocketFM FM Transmitter for Desktop Computers and you'll have your iTunes anywhere you are. (As long as your house isn't too big.)

Would give it 5 stars if the RF remote was just slightly more powerful. (It sometimes takes two or three button-presses for the signal to be received from the room most distant from the computer.)

Works better than expected........2007-01-19

I've been using the Griffin Technology Airclick USB Remote Control for Mac & PC for several months. (works fine on both PC and Mac, BTW.) I used a three foot USB cable and mounted the transceiver on the top shelf (about 6 feet.) The remote works from anywhere in the house, even outside. I clip the Airclick to the Sennheiser wireless headphones and I'm set to iTune all over the place. Recommended!

Another useless piece of plastic.......2007-01-07

I bought Airclick to control a new Mac Mini that we installed in a pantry closet with a monitor and speakers in our kitchen. The mini sit just behind the wall where the monitor is mounted, nothing unusual just two pieces of drywall that prevent the regular infrared mac remote from working. When it was brand new and just installed the Airclick worked marginally at best, you had to press, wait, press again, cross your fingers press again. I would say it worked about 40% of the time. After a couple months of frustration it has stopped working all together. It is a total waste of money and time as far as I'm concerned!

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