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Remote Buddy allows you to remotely control anything on your Mac with your iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple Remote or Wii Remote. Features and ideas on what you can use it for include:
- Control your Mac and access its iTunes library via your iPhone or iPod Touch using Remote Buddy's AJAX Remote
- Support for switching between AirTunes / AirPort Express speakers
- Use many EyeTV remotes to control Remote Buddy
- Control your entire Mac with your remote control: applications, games, mouse, keyboard, internet, ratings, audio, video, drives, files, displays, power, ..
- Virtual on screen keyboard and mouse. Virtual remote control emulating an Apple® Remote.
- 100+ different Behaviours that support applications, games, tools, operating system and hardware control already included.
- Decent, smart, dynamic and configurable menu that you can adjust to your needs (and not the other way round).
- The most powerful, most versatile, most rapidly growing tool for the Apple Remote. Winner in the "Best use of Apple Technologies" category of the MacGeneration Awards 2006.
- Not afraid of a thorough test: testdrive the full, unlimited product for up to 30 days using the trial version.
- Unparalleled, direct hardware support: built-in support for the most popular remote controls on the Mac: Apple Remote, Apple iPhone, Wii Remote, many EyeTV remotes, Sony BD Remote, Keyspan DMR, Keyspan Express, Keyspan RF Remote for Front Row, Griffin AirClick USB, and more.
- Built-in, powerful developer tools for those who won't accept the sky as the limit ;-)
Version 1.11.1:
- Enhancement: Updated Dutch locales. A big thanks goes to Alexander Henket for all of his work!
- Fix: Fixed a possible crash bug when moving around screen setting items in the menu preferences.
Version 1.11:
- NEW: Added a Behaviour for Plex.
- Enhancement: Further improved speed of the iTunes® library support.
- Enhancement: Added new categories to the iTunes® media library browser: music videos, composer, audiobooks.
- Enhancement: Improved handling of multi-disc albums by the iTunes® music library browser.
- Enhancement: Further improved bandwidth efficiency of the AJAX Remote.
- Enhancement: Compatibility with the basic changes in iTunes® 7.7.1's AppleScript® support.
- Fix: Fixed a problem where single-track albums in shared libraries could not be accessed.
- Fix: Various small fixes.
Version 1.10.1:
- Enhancement: Updated Dutch translation (once again, a big thanks to Alexander Henket!)
- Fix: Fixed "double-toggle" bug in the support for multiple AirPort® Express.
Version 1.10:
- AJAX Remote - novelities and improvements
- NEW: Support for remote access ("streaming") to files stored in your iTunes® library (including playlist & album support)
- NEW: Support for the selection of multiple speakers as well as support for the selection of the default audio output of the Mac Remote Buddy runs on (tap on the "(i)" next to "Computer" in the speaker overview)
- Enhancement: Further speed and efficiency enhancements in the RapidHTTPD core used by the AJAX Remote.
- Enhancement: The launcher will no longer display an icon for EyeTV if EyeTV is not installed
- NEW: Behaviours for even more applications
- NEW: Behaviour for Adobe Media Player
- NEW: Behaviour for Adobe Bridge (CS2 and CS3)
- NEW: Behaviour for Toast Video Player
- NEW: Behaviour for XBMC
- NEW: Support for selecting multiple AirPort Express® speakers
- NEW: Default system audio inputs and outputs can now be switched via the menu (find it in Remote Buddy menu > System > Audio devices by default)
- NEW: Reworked pairing engine and book-keeping in Bluetooth® Receiver
- NEW: A new internal database allows users to see a list of paired remotes directly in "Preferences > Hardware > Bluetooth Receiver", to remove the pairing with that device directly within Remote Buddy.
- NEW: Support for passive pairing (only the BD Remote supports this, the Wii™ Remote does not). BD Remotes, once paired, can now be reconnected to Remote Buddy by the simple press of any button and also much faster. The BD Remote can now also wake up your Mac® even if it was not connected to Remote Buddy at the time the Mac® was put to sleep. In combination with the option to disconnect a remote after a given period of inactivity and the option to disconnect the remote upon sleep, the new support for passive pairing will help you to greatly enhance the battery life time of your BD Remote. Passive pairing also helps to avoid physical 802.11 pollution (as mentioned in Apple's "Bluetooth Device Access Guide") by avoiding Bluetooth® traffic as far as possible.
- NEW: Option to not show a legend of the current remote control mapping
- NEW: Option to directly activate a Behaviour without descending into its context menu first
- NEW: New AppleScript® command "keypress" allows developers to send key press events with manifold options
- Enhancement: Big speedboost of operations on huge iTunes® Music Library
- Enhancement: Whether Remote Buddy should appear in the dock, in the menu bar or both can now be determined on a per-user basis on Leopard. As a necessary change, the default setting under Tiger is now "only in the menu bar".
- Enhancement: Remote Buddy is now a signed application to improve the interplay with Leopard's built-in application firewall and Keychain®.
- Enhancement: Improved reliability in the recognition of Bluetooth® remotes ready for pairing
- Fix: Fixed a bug in the iTunes® Behaviour that would reload the XML database each time a library operation was accessed through the onscreen menu or the AJAX Remote.
- Fix: Fixed a rare timing bug where Remote Buddy could hang when an application was quit, cover art was polled via the AJAX Remote and iTunes changed tracks - all at the very same moment.
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| Remote Buddy User Reviews (48 posts) | Write A Review | |
 | Jun 9 2008 |
BLARGHH I'd purchase a code for this, but $30USD seems a bit steep for what I'd use it for. Call me cheap, but I only really use it to watch DVD's on my LCD tv every few days or so (which it is great for, with the "change to main display" remote function) Nice program, just wish there was a "by donation" aspect to it, as I'd gladly paypal $15 for what I use it for, but I guess that's another whole story.. (Version 1.10.1) |
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 | Mar 30 2008 |
MIGUELD This program is simply ahead of its time. The attention to detail, the simplicity, the feature set and quality of Remote Buddy is nothing short of amazing. The most impressive feature is iPhone AJAX. I can't wait to see what the developer will do with the iPhone SDK. (Version 1.8.10) |
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| Feb 28 2008 |
HCOKIM_GMAIL.COM Even if this application only included the iPod touch/iPhone AJAX Remote, I would have shelled out the cash for it. I was in complete awe at how slick and well-implemented the iTunes controller was - I've never enjoyed using an application this much. I recently was DJ'ing for a party through iTunes, and Remote Buddy freed me from sitting in front of the computer; I could walk around, talk to people, and wirelessly change the songs from anywhere in the room. Great conversation starter too. :) This application is well worth its price tag. (Version 1.8.9) |
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| Feb 23 2008 |
DB2 Wow. Just set up Remote Buddy on my iPhone. Works as described. After fiddling with BlueTooth on my iPhone (is that feature functional yet?) I read the FAQs (!) and found the bonjour setup. After that, it was a snap. Now I can select and move my music all over my house using my iPhone, remote buddy and several airport expresses. Very cool. if only I could use RB to direct movies from my iTunes library to my iPhone for viewing there I'd be in remote heaven. Overall, good job and well thought out. (Version 1.8.9) |
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