New iMac to be used at our show booth!

[MDLarson]

Well, the show is running now, and I just wanted to let everybody know that the iMac is performing wonderfully. We actually had a some problems with some of our equipment, and it was nice to get a cell phone call from my dad letting me know that everything I was involved in worked out great. (New booth and all).

We set it up without the keyboard and kept the original one button mouse. We also setup a custom screen saver using Apple's built-in screen saver module. One frustrating thing about that was the minimum 5 minutes to activate it (short of moving the cursor to a corner). Testuser solved this for me with a command-line hack of sorts, and I shortened the activation time to 60 seconds. 30 seconds probably would have been a better choice.

One nice thing that worked out was saving the JPEG images of the slideshow in a folder and dragging those images down into the fully magnified dock. So if a certain slide caught the eye of a passerby, he could walk over and click on the image in the dock, Preview would open it up and he could ask more questions (or peruse the website for more details).

I think the iMac's greatest strength in this case is its looks. There is a certain amount of glitz and glamour that even the most boring trade shows want to attain. Some booths give out free beer, others have good-looking models handing out fliers. Well, we've got the most stylish computer in the world, and it is working out great!

[BlingBling 3k12]

Hey! We're doing that too!


I think...


I think we're getting the 800MHz G4 w/SuperDrive and we're gonna use it as a demo machine (along with a work machine when it's not in demo)

It's for a real estate agency and it will have our website hosted locally on it (since it's a big site... thinking about that, i gotta get started on moving it to CD-R) along with our 6 commercials that they can watch (should have no problem watching it in QT)

and since i didn't have to ask, thanks guys for your suggestions!

btw... mdlarson... you got a pretty cool office building there

also, the iMac goes well with our office's whole new strategy of "We're where YOU want to be!" and our office's colors (white and blue)

[MDLarson]

Originally posted by BlingBling 3k12
btw... mdlarson... you got a pretty cool office building there

Thanks! A little Photoshop work can go a long way…

Actually a little fun thing I did a while ago… I took a picture of a bright yellow Viper and stuck it in our parking lot (in the same picture on our homepage). It got old though.

Anyway, that's cool about your iMac idea too. Maybe we can make this thread into a little "ideas on how to make your Mac a show computer" or something!