{"id":358,"date":"2007-03-28T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=358"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:47:41","slug":"sofa_control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/sofa_control\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofa Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"sofa-control-logo.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/sofa-control-logo.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"145\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"discreet\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caseapps.com\/sofacontrol.html\">Sofa Control 2.0<\/a> for Mac OSX, from CASE Apps.<\/span><br \/>\nI bought a program called Sofa Control today after using the trial version a couple times since Christmas.<br \/>\nImpulse buy! Kind of.<br \/>\nI think I first found Sofa Control after a Google search for &#8220;mac remote control program&#8221; or something similar. I was 10 minutes away from a laptop presentation and I wanted to change PDF slides from a distance while still facing the audience. In two minutes I had the trial version running and my five minute presentation went without a hitch.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t usually buy software online (or anywhere, at anytime, for that matter). But before I pull out my credit card for any product I always Google the stuffing out of it, read reviews, ask people, weigh pros and cons, stay up late at night thinking about it.<br \/>\nBut next week I&#8217;m giving a hella important, 30-minute PDF presentation and I need a program that allows my Mac remote to control basically any program on my computer, for example Acrobat, Preview, QuickTime, Safari, etc. And it can&#8217;t fail. And it can&#8217;t be complicated. <strong>If Murphy&#8217;s Law is Supreme Judge and Dictator anywhere, it&#8217;s Computer Presentation Land.<\/strong><br \/>\nSo I just bought the thing. Well, OK, I did Google for like 30 seconds to find free alternatives but then I was like, nope, Sofa Control is great, does exactly what I want. I have confidence in the product. And so I&#8217;ve been thinking about tools a lot lately and why, for example, I bought Sofa Control:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The trial version was fully functioning (except for the 15 minute expiry per session) right out of the download<\/li>\n<li>The icon design, controls and features fit in well with OSX<\/li>\n<li>Install was super easy. Drag to Applications, double-click, go.<\/li>\n<li>Affordable<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short, two step buying process<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<li>Seemed like a nice company (it&#8217;s like, one guy who developed Sofa Control?) Seemed more personable and likable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I want more of these points covered when I buy any sort of tool, from my laptop to my utility knife to my bicycle. It&#8217;s like, the busier I get, the more responsibilities I have, <strong>the more I depend on my tools: the more confidence I need in them<\/strong>. As in, I want to worry less about them, wondering what&#8217;s going to break, why they got busted, whose fault it is. If there are limitations to the tool I want to know what they are right away so I can plan for them and be aware when they should be and not be used, replaced and supplemented.<br \/>\nAnd <strong>I&#8217;m willing to start paying a (well, slight) premium for this peace of mind<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a program for my computer and it reminds me how important good tools are and why I&#8217;m willing to start paying for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}