February 2010 Archives
At Macworld 2010 we had noticed another symbiotic product being made from another smaller company such as ourselves. they were just a few booths down one row near us.
Flatscreen Arms http://www.tvmonitorarms.com/ makes some of the nicest monitor arms we have ever seen.
Stainless Steel and Brass are used , as well as billet aluminum heads. For quality that can handle your precious Mac with confidence and style they look like the go-to arms manufacturer.
Some of their arms have Variable tension adjustable heads, and gas assisted monitor arms..Whoa...
They have 6 variations of arm-mounts, 3 of which are devoted to the Mac ; covering the below displays:
19", 20", 21.5" 24", and 27" iMac
24" LCD
30" Display
Check them out when you get a chance.
These arms will work fantastic in combination with any of our Kanex adapters. You can stick the entire cable onto the arm or just behind the monitor and hide it from view.
Didn't get a chance to see us at Macworld? Here's the 411
· Demos - Conducted continuous demonstrations of the iAdapt 20 and 51 and the Kanex XD™.
· Free stuff - Attendees were ravenous for our free giveaways (totes, pens, and literature).
· Won Best of Show - Newest product, Kanex XD™, was one of 11 winners for Best of Show!
· Media interviews - We did some interviews with media from here to there such as TUAW and TidBits.
· Made some friends - We talked to some interestingly tech-savvy Mac users and gave some product training.
· Show Special - We offered attendees a "show special" for existing iAdapt series of adapters at a pleasingly discounted rate.
· Played a lot of video games - People stopped by to get their share of gaming with the XD demo.
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Check out these photos we took at the event!
From left to right: booth set-up, guys enjoying the XD on PS3, girl concentrating on her tennis match
Going to Macworld this year was a huge success for Kanex. With Macworld 2010 being the brand's very first expo, we had no idea what to expect. Surprisingly, with Apple out of the limelight, the media and public placed all their focus on exhibitors and their display of products.
At the Kanex exhibit, we had several products on demo. Our newest product, an HDMI to DisplayPort converter dubbed as the Kanex XD™, was selected by Macworld editors for the Best of Show Award.
Roman Loyola, Senior Editor at Macworld, handed us our 2010 Best of Show Banner to display on the booth. Here, he provides a podcast feature on our winning product - Kanex XD™.
For more details on Macworld Best of Show, click here to read Roman's full article.
When using your Macbook to deliver a presentation, you want it to be colorful, meaningful, enthusiastic and passionate, just like Steve Job's presentations. That's why you connect to a projector and show it to everyone in the room.
With the Kanex Apple adapters you can do that and more!
The Kanex iAdapt 20 and iAdapt 51 seamlessly add sound to the mix, taking your mini-display port and adapting it to an HDMI connector with sound.
Hopefully using this adapter with your media-rich presentation will help your numbers and graphs leap off the screen and into the minds of your audience.
Here are some resources for making that presentation work for you using Apple's iWork Keynote:
Online resources, such as keynoteuser.com, offer great custom themes and tips.
http://www.keynoteuser.com/category/tips/
Apple iWork Keynote website
http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/
Some External Monitor settings for projectors/presentation screens
You want to experiment on an external monitor before presenting live! There are two screens you need to adjust and you want to match these settings to have it display on the projector only.
Screenshot 1: Presenter Display Preferences and Slideshow Preferences
