Comments for Think Paus'itive http://clemworm.wordpress.com Anything worth remembering for Oliver Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:25:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Web Conferencing: DimDim v5, short review by Kevin Micalizzi, Dimdim Web Conferencing http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/web-conferencing-dimdim-v5-short-review/#comment-74 Kevin Micalizzi, Dimdim Web Conferencing Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:25:29 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-74 Thanks for the feedback, we are always working to improve our service. I have already put enhancement requests in to change the way notifications work when you start the meeting. On the recordings, We ask the meeting host to confirm that they want to save the because some people may choose to overwrite the original recording and record again. I'll ask the team to look at other ways this could be addressed. Our screen sharing shows your attendees your desktop. Attendees can click the full screen button to make the experience more like it would be if they were just looking over your shoulder at your monitor. I know some presenters lower their own desktop resolution before sharing their screen to ensure that attendees with lower resolutions are able to see everything more easily. Let me know what your expectation is for how things should appear for attendees. I'd like to share your feedback with the product management team. Thanks. -k Kevin Micalizzi, Community Manager Dimdim Web Conferencing e: kevin@dimdim.com twitter: @dimdim facebook: dimdim.com/facebook Experience the Dimdim Live Webinar! Register at: http://www.dimdim.com/aboutus/events.html Thanks for the feedback, we are always working to improve our service. I have already put enhancement requests in to change the way notifications work when you start the meeting. On the recordings, We ask the meeting host to confirm that they want to save the because some people may choose to overwrite the original recording and record again. I’ll ask the team to look at other ways this could be addressed.

Our screen sharing shows your attendees your desktop. Attendees can click the full screen button to make the experience more like it would be if they were just looking over your shoulder at your monitor. I know some presenters lower their own desktop resolution before sharing their screen to ensure that attendees with lower resolutions are able to see everything more easily. Let me know what your expectation is for how things should appear for attendees. I’d like to share your feedback with the product management team.

Thanks.

-k
Kevin Micalizzi, Community Manager
Dimdim Web Conferencing
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]]> Comment on Web Conferencing: DimDim v5, short review by Oliver http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/web-conferencing-dimdim-v5-short-review/#comment-73 Oliver Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:11:59 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-73 Thanks for your comments. BTW what is GTM? Thanks for your comments.

BTW what is GTM?

]]> Comment on Web Conferencing: DimDim v5, short review by anattabodhi http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/web-conferencing-dimdim-v5-short-review/#comment-72 anattabodhi Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:56:29 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-72 I just gave this app a try, and think I will have to stick with GTM for now. I don't want the emails that go out coming from DimDim. I want them to have my email address as the From, and my message for the contents looking just like a regular email. I also noticed that when I added the meeting to my Outlook calendar, hardly any of the contents of the email about the meeting (that had come from DimDim) were actually included in the calendar item. So if the meeting reminder popped up a week later for a meeting, the person would have to hunt through their inbox to find the actual email invite to click the "Join Meeting" button therein! After I started the meeting as the presenter the invitees did receive emails that the meeting had started, and these included the Join Meeting info, but 1) that should happen at the scheduled time, even if I start the meeting a minute or too late myself, or else people who do find the original invite before they get this reminder will get a message saying the meeting room doesn't exist. 2) Most people's email software only checks for messages every 10 minutes or so. If you have to rely on this for people to find the Join Meeting link (which isn't showing in their calendar reminder) everyone will be straggling in over the first 15 minutes or so. I also hate that the ending of the recording includes your clicking the dialog that pops up confirming you do want to end the recording (tacky), and that the link to the recording on DimDim's site loops endlessly. Again, not quite polished an professional. The default should be to play once and the viewer should have to click something to reply, as is the case with most video playback services out there. The quality of the image of my screen display was also so low no one would be able to read the words. All in all, great idea, but can't be used for anything where professional image is at stake. I just gave this app a try, and think I will have to stick with GTM for now. I don’t want the emails that go out coming from DimDim. I want them to have my email address as the From, and my message for the contents looking just like a regular email. I also noticed that when I added the meeting to my Outlook calendar, hardly any of the contents of the email about the meeting (that had come from DimDim) were actually included in the calendar item. So if the meeting reminder popped up a week later for a meeting, the person would have to hunt through their inbox to find the actual email invite to click the “Join Meeting” button therein!

After I started the meeting as the presenter the invitees did receive emails that the meeting had started, and these included the Join Meeting info, but 1) that should happen at the scheduled time, even if I start the meeting a minute or too late myself, or else people who do find the original invite before they get this reminder will get a message saying the meeting room doesn’t exist. 2) Most people’s email software only checks for messages every 10 minutes or so. If you have to rely on this for people to find the Join Meeting link (which isn’t showing in their calendar reminder) everyone will be straggling in over the first 15 minutes or so.

I also hate that the ending of the recording includes your clicking the dialog that pops up confirming you do want to end the recording (tacky), and that the link to the recording on DimDim’s site loops endlessly. Again, not quite polished an professional. The default should be to play once and the viewer should have to click something to reply, as is the case with most video playback services out there.

The quality of the image of my screen display was also so low no one would be able to read the words. All in all, great idea, but can’t be used for anything where professional image is at stake.

]]> Comment on Web Conferencing: DimDim v5, short review by Kevin Micalizzi, Dimdim Web Conferencing http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/web-conferencing-dimdim-v5-short-review/#comment-67 Kevin Micalizzi, Dimdim Web Conferencing Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:42:19 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-67 Oliver- Thanks for your feedback. At this time we do not offer remote control (#6) capabilities, but the team is working on it. I'll share your feedback about recording multiple presenters, high quality recording, and what you would like to see recorded with the product management team. Thanks! -k Kevin Micalizzi, Community Manager Dimdim Web Conferencing e: kevin@dimdim.com twitter: @dimdim facebook: dimdim.com/facebook Experience the Dimdim Live Webinar! Register at: http://www.dimdim.com/aboutus/events.html Oliver-

Thanks for your feedback. At this time we do not offer remote control (#6) capabilities, but the team is working on it. I’ll share your feedback about recording multiple presenters, high quality recording, and what you would like to see recorded with the product management team.

Thanks!

-k
Kevin Micalizzi, Community Manager
Dimdim Web Conferencing
e: kevin@dimdim.com
twitter: @dimdim
facebook: dimdim.com/facebook

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]]> Comment on Wireless music streaming to stereo by clemworm http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/wireless-music-streaming-to-stereo/#comment-46 clemworm Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:45:52 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-46 Think www.wholehousefmtransmitter.com might be most promising, will try one soon. Main disadvantage over Bluetooth based products is one-way signal only: from sound-generation device (emitter: your PC, radio, etc) to your receiver. Some Bluetooth enabled devices allow remote control of emitter. HOWEVER, major advantage of FM-based solution is how many different kinds of devices it can plug to, and that all existing receivers can get signal, whereas with Bluetooth you are limited to your PC as sound source (whereas sometimes I'd like to play main stereo, other times music from our satellite TV) and to special speakers as receivers. So there: the whole-house-FM-transmitter could be the perfect solution if it had in it a Bluetooth card and a USB port so that if you wanted, you could also connect it to your PC and remote control what gets played. Think http://www.wholehousefmtransmitter.com might be most promising, will try one soon.

Main disadvantage over Bluetooth based products is one-way signal only: from sound-generation device (emitter: your PC, radio, etc) to your receiver. Some Bluetooth enabled devices allow remote control of emitter.

HOWEVER, major advantage of FM-based solution is how many different kinds of devices it can plug to, and that all existing receivers can get signal, whereas with Bluetooth you are limited to your PC as sound source (whereas sometimes I’d like to play main stereo, other times music from our satellite TV) and to special speakers as receivers.

So there: the whole-house-FM-transmitter could be the perfect solution if it had in it a Bluetooth card and a USB port so that if you wanted, you could also connect it to your PC and remote control what gets played.

]]> Comment on Wireless music streaming to stereo by clemworm http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/wireless-music-streaming-to-stereo/#comment-45 clemworm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:23:32 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-45 I found out that there are 3 classes of bluetooth signal strength. The "regular" is class 2, at 10 m. Class 1 is 100m. A search for "class 1 bluetooth dongle" shows several around $40 price point which is very affordable. I suspect that the bluetooth speaker has to support class 1 bluetooth, and there are a few of those too (e.g. Juster Co (Taiwan) has many http://tinyurl.com/64nx3v). I found out that there are 3 classes of bluetooth signal strength. The “regular” is class 2, at 10 m. Class 1 is 100m. A search for “class 1 bluetooth dongle” shows several around $40 price point which is very affordable. I suspect that the bluetooth speaker has to support class 1 bluetooth, and there are a few of those too (e.g. Juster Co (Taiwan) has many http://tinyurl.com/64nx3v).

]]> Comment on Wireless music streaming to stereo by Oliver http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/wireless-music-streaming-to-stereo/#comment-44 Oliver Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:31:25 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-44 Another option that I should have mentioned is bluetooth speakers. These are relatively cheap and easy to come by though reviews indicate the sound quality may not be up to the standards of sound afficionados. Also, the range is not as good as FM or GHz systems: 10m. Note that even if your computer doesn't have bluetooth, you can easily install a bluetooth adapter that would allow you to stream music from your PC to speakers *almost* anywhere in the house (assuming your house is < 40 feet long and PC is centrally located). Another option that I should have mentioned is bluetooth speakers. These are relatively cheap and easy to come by though reviews indicate the sound quality may not be up to the standards of sound afficionados. Also, the range is not as good as FM or GHz systems: 10m.

Note that even if your computer doesn’t have bluetooth, you can easily install a bluetooth adapter that would allow you to stream music from your PC to speakers *almost* anywhere in the house (assuming your house is < 40 feet long and PC is centrally located).

]]> Comment on Wireless music streaming to stereo by taybrynn http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/wireless-music-streaming-to-stereo/#comment-42 taybrynn Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:05:50 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-42 The EDM LCD is the best in that list ... by far. The EDM LCD is the best in that list … by far.

]]> Comment on Wireless music streaming to stereo by Bushyetdah http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/wireless-music-streaming-to-stereo/#comment-35 Bushyetdah Fri, 02 May 2008 16:15:38 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-35 I agree with SoundsGood, with FM transmitter we can achieve good area coverage with easiest/cheapest way. I agree with SoundsGood, with FM transmitter we can achieve good area coverage with easiest/cheapest way.

]]> Comment on Wireless music streaming to stereo by SoundsGood http://clemworm.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/wireless-music-streaming-to-stereo/#comment-29 SoundsGood Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:27:27 +0000 http://clemworm.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-29 Looks like an FM transmitter would be easiest/cheapest solution. Anyone know which of the listed products works best? Looks like an FM transmitter would be easiest/cheapest solution.

Anyone know which of the listed products works best?

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