[www.griffintechnology.com]
Discuss!!

BGnR

---

"Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You're beautiful!"
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
"Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
"A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."

Contour Shuttle XPress beats it hands down.

That said, I have a Contour ShuttlePro on the way to replace my Xpress

I have both. The Shuttle Pro is for video editing. The PowerMate is for iTunes. And I use the PowerMate 100 times a day easy - on my headless G4 Cube, to skip songs, pause, and adjust volume. It works flawless that way.

And - I've had it since they shipped their first batch of them. It's as perfect as the day I bought it. I just wish I had bought a black one too - when they had them, a limited edition version.

It's as solid a product as I have ever owned. I use it for a limited set of tasks; but it does them perfectly.

---

Good Luck!
Jamie Dresser
Other World Computing

I agree, Jamie. I have a Shuttle XPress for video work, and a PowerMate for other functions. When iTunes is active, it's a volume/skip/pause button, like yours.

When Vienna is active, it lets me scroll through my news feeds. Each press takes me to the next unread story, etc.

In Safari it controls page down and up, and moving forward and back, and from tab to tab.

One of these days I'm going to roll up my sleeves and dive into Griffin's free, powerful and poorly publicized macro/automation program, Proxi, which works with the PowerMate, their wonderful AirClick RF remote, and just about anything you can imagine.

As I'm also using a mini as a media server, I might get a PowerMate for it, hard-wired to only drive iTunes, or perhaps Front Row.

---

I got mine a little late, so they don't pulse with my Macs' Sleep light. Griffen stopped making those after the first run.

But, it does power up my Cube. I love that.

I've also got one of those acrylic bases (from the guy that tweaks Ms. Mintie's panties) that looks great with the PowerMate. I wish I had got a couple more, frosted.

I think there were two runs of the black PMs. I lagged and lost, too.

Maybe the software has improved.

---

I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

The Shuttle controllers are far more programable than the Powermate. I have mine setup to do everything my Powermate did plus more (since it has 3x the functionality).

The Powermate always has a lag to it. The Proxi software (when I used it) was completely unusable and refused to be configured or even de-configured. My first-run Powermate eventually died from overuse. (It started getting confused, there were points in the rotation where it would start thinking it were spun in the opposite direction).

The Shuttle Xpress is just awesome. It still has the center left/right rotation, it has 5 buttons, plus it has the Shuttle function to use for scrolling which is just perfect. I have mine set so it scrolls at 4 different speeds based on how far I turn the knob. But, as I've just discovered some new FCP features, I decided I wanted the additional buttons of the Shuttle Pro.

Had a bunch of the Black PowerMate's, the black anodizing rubs off, too bad they looked cool.

BGnR

---

"Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You're beautiful!"
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
"Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
"A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."

Got one yesterday. Spent an hour with tech support -> dud.

I feel like the softare for these things has gotten much worse over time. I used to be able, for example, to set the flashing on mine to a very wide range. With the latest software, the thing has only the slightest variation in pulse rates... I wish I could think of other examples right now, but suffice it to say that it just seems to be so much more limited compared to what you used to be able to do with it.

I even tried Proxi for awhile, but configuring that beast was not intuitive at all!

Oh well, as I tell people who ask... "I mostly use it for the cool pulsing blue light!"

<sigh>

The new ones don't pulse when your Mac sleeps? That's depressing.

---

Actually, I think they all are capable of pulsing, they're just damn hard to configure for that now. I had a bit of a time finding it in the new software...

What I hate about the software is how every once in awhile it "forgets" that I've already programmed a bunch of stuff for my PowerMate, and seems to think it's a brand new one or something. Fortunately it's not difficult to port my settings over from my "old" PowerMate to the "new" one, but what a PITA that I have to do it at all.

I do think it would be cool to have more than one PowerMate programmed for different functions, though.

Sorry to hear Proxi is a pain. It looks very, very cool, but I usually just rolled my own AppleScripts for the AirClick, back when.

---

I've stopped using mine because the problems it caused outweighed any possible benefits.
[forums.macresource.com]

---