“If you’ve purchased a Mac recently, you probably have an Apple Remote. This nifty little device allows you to enter Apple’s Front Row interface and control your Mac from afar. It’s common knowledge that you can use your Apple Remote to play music, watch movies, and flip through pictures. This all comes in very handy, especially when you use your Mac as a full-blown entertainment center,” Stephen Korecky reports for Macinstruct.
“What you might not know is that you can also use your remote to put your Mac to sleep, present a Keynote presentation, and lock your Mac.,” Korecky reports.
Korecky covers the following:
• After a Long Day, It’s Time to Go to Sleep
• Keynote + Apple Remote = Seamless Presentation
• Booting Up with the Apple Remote
• Flip Through Your iPhotos
• Trick the Tricksters
• Replace Your Apple Remote’s Battery
• iAlertU
Full article here.
Apple Remotes are too simple.
I wish to god that Steve Jobs would get the point that I want to search without having to hold the button throughout my search. But nnoooooo we have to combine search and skip into one button to keep it simple. Arseholes.
Hey Tommy Boy – I have more money than you, ha!
Then go buy one with 357 buttons from M$.
@ Tommy Boy: use your bluetooth keyboard
Hey Tommyboy – Yeah like it is any easier on a TIVO – They just need to put a letter search in the software not clutter up the remote.
I’ve already got a living room full of huge remotes, so I don’t need yet another one. Apple’s current remote does the job.
Pretty cool. I learned something new about my remote. iAlertU might be fun to try. And the sleep and boot tricks might be handy. Nice. Thanks, MDN.
Then use SallingClicker and a palm handheld.
I want to know where Apple gets the hot chicks that are always in their sample photos (on their website, etc.)!
Um, probably from an agency?
Where’s the ‘Any Key’?
I use Mira.
Does a binch of stuff, but I mainly use it for EyeTV and Photobooth, along with Front Row.
On a related note, my oldest has a 30 gig iPod and the HiFi speaker, which came with a remote. That is all well and fine, but why don’t they allow the Menu button to change between TV shows, movies, pictures, songs and so forth? You still have to do that ny hand. Oh, well, he’s still young.
‘binch’? wtf is that? I typed ‘bunch’
Apple can’t even make a decent keyboard…
‘ny’? I said ‘by’!!!
I never had this problem with Windows…
LOL! Still dizzy from that tower climb, TT?
“wish to god that Steve Jobs would get the point “
That’s why the scroll speed increases exponentially. They’ve already solved this problem, even though you enjoy whining.
ialertu seems like a nice start for a piece of software. I tested the emailing of the pic to myself – it didn’t work. If they can get this fixed it would be a nice addition to any macbook.
Get remotebuddy here! You can use your apple remote as a mouse, powerpoint presenter tool, and pretty much anything else that you can think of. Unfortunately, it’s not freeware. I had a powerpoint presentation that I had to give a few months back and did the free 60-day trial of it.
NSFY
either that or the microwaves beaming into my fillings have put me back in touch with the Mother Ship where Marshall Herff Applewhite is controlling my typing.
Apple Remotes are too simple.
Wait for iPhone. No buttons and obviously a ton more functionality.
And how sweet it’d be if you could run Keynote with it…
Hee, hee….He said Poopie
Remote controls just make America fatter. Not because you are using less energy to change chanells/movies/pictures etc. but rather because they encourage you to basically do nothing…………… except sit on your fat ass, eat, drink and push buttons.
Allen…..
Holy CRAP batman, you’re right! nice program.
Remote Buddy Rox