October 10th, 2007

Ultimate Control: Remote Buddy For iPhone

Wow, I have been in a cave. I had heard a little bit about Remote Buddy, but had no idea it had progressed to this degree of sophistication and control.

Here’s a few screen grabs from a demo video - which is quite effective, as it shows the iPhone remote manipulating a Mac in the background.

What caught my eye was its ability to control a Keynote presentation remotely, and yield quite a lot of control:

And that’s just for work. It can control iTunes, which is perfect if you have an AirPort Express (for linking a Mac to far-flung speakers) or an Apple TV.

If I could get it to control my Comcast HD tuner, now that would be something.

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Just a follow-up: I downloaded the trial, and it’s quite amazing. Pretty responsive control, because it’s running over a wi-fi network (not quite sure how that part works, but it seems to work well).

While it seems to do a million things, what I would use it for is controlling slideshows, presentations, or iTunes. For that, it’s phat. Now, if I just had some decent speakers and an Airport Express to feed audio to them from iTunes…

Allan On October 21st, 2007 at 10:08 pm, Allan said:

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