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Free your Front Row Mac

Posted in Apple by Dan at 12:20 pm
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It is really cool to have a remote control for your Mac, although it doesn’t do much except run FrontRow and set your Intel Mac’s boot drive.

Because of the remotes relative simplicity, it has been relegated to the bottom of my useless hardware pile. However I can now dust off the remote because a company called IOSpirit has developed a piece of software lets you use Apple’s Remote for additional features.

Remote Buddy lets your use your IR remote to control other software like PowerPoint and also be used as a virtual mouse. Let your little Apple IR Remote automate your life. Sells for €9.99 (Or $9,000 American at the current exchange rate The exchange rate thing was a joke – It is about $18 American :P)

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18 Responses to “Free your Front Row Mac”

  1. hardwaregenius says:
    6/26/2006 at 1:26 pm

    what a ripoff ….. 9 GRAND!!!!!

  2. hardwaregenius says:
    6/26/2006 at 1:27 pm

    im gonna write my own….. im gonna post a link once i have the software written

  3. Noraa Haras says:
    6/26/2006 at 1:32 pm

    I could write my own for $8k!

    Besides, my MBP remote works fine for Keynote and iTunes without Frontrow running.

  4. Justin says:
    6/26/2006 at 3:44 pm

    This sounds like Sofa Control.

  5. Justin says:
    6/26/2006 at 3:48 pm

    Hey it works with the Keyspan Remote. didn’t know that.

  6. Patrick says:
    6/26/2006 at 5:51 pm

    I have to wonder how someone could’ve not got that joke. Really.

  7. Ashraf Ali says:
    6/26/2006 at 6:25 pm

    Cant believe people believed the price. ROFL. Neat program btw.

  8. Neal Saferstein says:
    6/26/2006 at 7:04 pm

    This is great!

    Neal Saferstein

  9. Jared says:
    6/26/2006 at 7:13 pm

    Seriously, people are that stupid to think that 9.99 Euro translates to 9,000 USD? Wow.

  10. Chad Poirier says:
    6/26/2006 at 7:19 pm

    Wow! That’s so awesome.

    Being a student, that ALMOST makes me wanna buy a MacBook so that I can use that for in class presentations.

  11. Scott says:
    6/26/2006 at 7:40 pm

    haha

  12. Zach Forrester says:
    6/27/2006 at 12:35 am

    Hey, hardwaregenius
    Let me know when you’ve written that app
    I’ll test it for you
    zforrester1 AT yahoo.com

  13. Jon says:
    6/27/2006 at 5:28 pm

    Sony Ericsson K750i anyone?

  14. wha? says:
    6/27/2006 at 9:18 pm

    Seriously, people are that stupid to think that 9.99 Euro translates to 18 USD? ???????? Wow.

  15. Phil says:
    6/29/2006 at 4:23 pm

    Man, those are some really stupid people that didn’t get that joke! Ha Ha!!!

  16. randy says:
    6/29/2006 at 4:28 pm

    GUYS GIMME A BREAK JUS BECAUST I DIDNT GET THE JOKE DOESNT MEAN IM STUPID I GET IT NOW OK SHUT YOUR F***** MOUTH

  17. Joel says:
    7/7/2006 at 2:01 pm

    ummm even though a correction ws mad you’re all fucking idiots if you think that 10 euro is 9,000 american. but does anybody know a way to program a specific remote to a specific computer?

  18. Dan says:
    7/7/2006 at 2:27 pm

    Yes:

    Hold the remote close to the computer (3 to 4 inches away) and point the remote at the front of the computer.

    Press and hold both the Menu and Next buttons on the remote until the paired-remote graphic appears on your screen (about 5 seconds).

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