Pump Up The VolumePowerMate is the coolest volume knob your desk has ever seen. Crank up your MP3s and CDs. Then with a push of its button, mute your music to answer the phone and handle the complaints.
Scroll Through Playlists With A TwistFind the perfect song you are looking for with your very own Jog/Shuttle wheel. Use PowerMate to scroll through and select the song with the push of a button.
Touch And GlowCool blue light glows underneath the PowerMate, showing you visual status of what you're controlling. Turn the volume up – the glow gets brighter. Push mute – the light turns off. Coolest of all, it pulses hypnotically while your computer sleeps.
Take It For A ScrollPowerMate is the fastest way to scroll through long text documents, web pages and spreadsheets. With a flick of the wrist, you get to the "bottom" of the story in record time.
Spin ControlPowerMate is an assignable controller. That means you can program it to do anything* you want – in any application. Program the wheel to scroll your email, set the button to switch to your browser. Customize it to your needs and get wild.
The scroll wheel is an excellent invention and I can’t think of using a computer without one. Still it’s just you and that mouse. Maybe you keep your other hand at the keyboard.
The Griffin Powermate has a name, a look and a description that suggest that you should use it to adjust the volume on your computer.
I love this incredibly well built, good looking, solid and very useful knob. I have never used it to adjust the volume on my computer.
I use it to scroll in my browser. To zoom in Photoshop. To shuttle in my video editing software. To scroll in my photo archive. Right hand on the mouse. Left hand switching between the keyboard and the Powermate.
It has completely removed quite a bit of strain on my right hand.
There is a very reliable rule that says that a company that makes hardware can never make good software (look at the software that follows ATI’s graphics cards or Creative’s MP3 players etc…*) Griffin has done an exception with the Powermate. The latest version of the software for this device is actually quite useful. And if you don’t like it you always have Girder and the Girder Powermate Plugin.
I haven’t tested the Girder Plugin yet. The original Griffin software does what I want at this point.
Griffin PowerMate USB Multimedia Controller Technical Specifications:
System Requirements of the Griffin PowerMate USB Multimedia Controller:
