JEFF H.  Really looking forward to future releases that will support the Manta TR1 remote receiver.  
(Version 2.9)

JEFF H.  "requirements" of this app should ABSOLUTELY say that the Apple Remote is the ONLY remote that this app supports.

There are a few others. I have the ATI Remote Wonder. I was very ready to buy this when I realized this only AFTER installing the app.

Talk about excluding!!!  
(Version 2.2)

SCATTERBRAINE  Sofa Control always deactivates my global iTunes control, and I can't turn off Safari control.

How can I set Sofa Control up, so that the only thing I use is the menu (cause i wanna be able to turn off my computer with the remote). I don't want Sofa Control to interfere with anything else, just want to use the menu!  
(Version 2.1.1)

EMET1  Sofa Control 2.0b

With this app, I have broken my own record for the shortest time from install to payment. It took less than 10 minutes (only because I read through the tutorial) before I paypaled (it's a word!) the $10.

Why I love this app:

1. It allows me to trigger the visualizer in iTunes AND change playlists while the visualizer is running. This is the one feature that will blow my friends' minds.

2. The detail. It is absolutely beautiful, with the kind of style you'd expect from a Mac app. It builds on the best of Front Row, but ramps it up with it's own unique elements. I love the pixellating fade out of the interface. Mies van der Rohe was right.

3. It's not a one-trick pony. It has a huge feature set and is scriptable (if I knew applescript, which I don't but that's why I pay people like this to do it for me).

4. The best apps combine and balance style and substance. (It's not what you say, folks, it's how you say it). It's hard to make a tutorial sexy, but this developer did it.

5. It's freakin' cheap! $10-for all the features you could possibly want (and some you may never use).

This app is the chocolate sprinkles on the ice cream sundae that is my MacBook Pro.  
(Version 2.0b2)

ANTHONY SIGALAS  Sofa Control 2.0b offers unique new features over the previous version like Virtual Mouse, newly designed global menus, double pressing that offers new functionaity and a new more user friendly script maker to create your unique scripts. The ability to browse through files and open them on your disk drives gives sofa a clear edge over the rest of the Apple remote apps. Furthermore the developer is friendly, open to suggestions (he has incorporated everything I asked for) and quick to reply and solve any problems.

This beta also has a new script called Sofa Safari that enables you to browse with one apple remote click through sites that are reporting MWSF 2007 live keynote from Steve Jobs. So instant live coverage of 2007 keynote from your Sofa :)  
(Version 2.0b1)

/USR/BIN/PAUL  I've tried both Sofa Control and Remote Buddy, and they both have their advantages. Sofa Control is very flexible, but slow, the interface needs some polishing and only allows one remote. Remote Buddy is extremely fast, has a great looking interface, allows multiple remotes, but lacks very much in functionality. Just as a quick comparison, when you want to quit an application:

In Sofa control, you just select menu and then quit. Very easy and intuitive.

In Remote Buddy you have to navigate way back to the root of the menus, select System, then select the app you wish to quit, then select quit. Very tedious.

In Contrast with another comparison:

Remote Buddy allows you take control of the system allowing you to sleep or shut down.

Sofa Control does not have this built-in, however Sofa Control is so flexible because of it's marriage with Apple Script that this could very easily be configured.

All in all, I wish these developers could work together OR at least copy some of the ideas from one another to make their app better. Thanks to both developers for creating such useful apps.

If I had to choose to use only one of these apps, it would probably be Sofa Control because of it's power of flexibility.  
(Version 1.0)

BOMBADIL  Fantastic app! After trying it for one day I bought it. It's exactly what I was looking for in that I can finally control EyeTv, Mplayer and basically any other appliation using my Apple Remote and a bit of cut and paste Applescript if I want to add functionaluty for more apps. Great interface, great functionality, great price! Recommend anyone who likes using FrontRow with their remote to give this a try!  
(Version 1.0)

CALLE  Wonderfull app, as soon it gets finished. Lots of potential, nicely done, but still buggy.  
(Version 0.7)