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Product Description:
What is Remote Buddy and what can I do with it?
- Control your entire Mac with your remote control: applications, games, mouse, keyboard, internet, ratings, audio, video, drives, files, displays, power, ..
- 50+ different Behaviours that support applications, games, tools, operating system and hardware control already included.
- Just works. Out of the box - without any configuration.
- 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 60 days.
- Unparalleled, direct hardware support: built-in support for the most popular remote controls on the Mac: Apple Remote, Keyspan DMR, Keyspan Express, Keyspan RF Remote for Front Row, Griffin AirClick USB, eHome 2005 receivers, many mobiles, keyboards, .. see the full list here.
- Built-in, powerful developer tools for those who won't accept the sky as the limit ;-)
What's new in this version:
- FIX IN R2: A problem with detecting PowerPoint as active application has been fixed.
- NEW: Wii have an experimental surprise for you! ;-) Wii Remote Control support. Right now, "only" the buttons are supported. Support for the rest of the Wii Remote Control features (motion and IR sensors) is in the works.
- NEW: iTunes Behaviour: Music Library Browser for your local library and all libraries shared over the network. Available categories include Artist, Album, Tracks, Playlists, Current Album, Current Artist, All songs by artist, All tracks on album. Displays artwork and track information (duration, name, album, year, genre, ..).
- NEW: "Movie Library" menu inside VLCs and DVD Players Behaviour. Automatically finds your VIDEO_TS folders via Spotlight and displays covers with a nice glossy effect if you previously dropped any covert art into the parent directory of the respective VIDEO_TS folder.
- NEW: Add your own Custom Actions to existing Behaviours with ease. Directly within the mapping table. A Custom Action can consist of any number of Actors, which can perform key strokes, execute AppleScript code, emulate mouse wheel events, call globally available Actions of other Behaviours or just delay command execution.
- NEW: A brand-new, multithreaded driver architecture replaces the previous single-threaded approach. Hardware events, input filtering and parsing are now dealt with asynchronously, which enables precise timing and superior performance and integration while saving loads of memory over an alternative, multi-process approach.
- NEW: New actions in the VLC Behaviour: cycle through subtitles, audio tracks and aspect ratio. Also, an action for switching to a new DVD menu navigation mode is now available as well.
- NEW: New logo by Rory Prior from ThinkMac. It does better reflect the fact that Remote Buddy does by now support a far bigger range of remote control hardware than just the Apple Remote.
- Enhancement: The Keynote Behaviour can now pause with a blank, black screen, jump to the first and last slide and also exit the presentation. It will now also help you to modify Keynote's preferences so you can access the Remote Buddy menu while Keynote is running a presentation.
- Enhancement: Keeping manually activated Behaviours active until they are explicitely deactivated is now an option. And - unlike in all previous versions - it's turned off by default. You can turn it back on in the Preferences if you need it.
- Enhancement: Accessibility and Exposé Behaviours are now designed in a way that allows you to map their actions anywhere, make Remote Buddy temporarily switch to these Behaviours and automatically leave them again as soon as you make a selection.
- Enhancement: "General" preferences is now organized in a better way.
- Enhancement: Behaviour Construction Kit additions: two new events to execute actions at Remote Buddy startup / quit time, i.e. to start / stop a background helper process. And the ability to declare an Action to be non-mappable (useful for usage with i.e. Behaviour-Event-only actions).
- Enhancement: Remote Buddy will automatically mute EyeTV as soon as Front Row is invoked or iTunes starts playing a song.
- Enhancement: Improved, more efficient EyeTV support. Channel numbers are now displayed in front of the channel name in Remote Buddy's channels menu. A smooth bezel message will now inform you that a recording is in progress when trying to switch channels rather than just trying to switch channels and risking a requester to pop up.
- Enhancement: Many of the Cocoa-based Behaviours are now completely AppleScript free or don't use AppleScript during Behaviour activation any longer.
- Enhancement: The "Enter license code" interface does no longer require a company name to be entered.
- Enhancement: Software updates can now be skipped individually in the component updater window. Internal additions to the updater's logic that allow an even smarter and more targeted distribution of component updates.
- Fix: Background status inquiries do now no longer block if the respective application (i.e. iTunes and DVD Player) is not responding, but time out gracefully.
- Fix: DVD Player Behaviour does now reliably detect DVD menus.
- Fix: A timer that would not be stopped until the next transition in the menu could, under rare circumstances, previously consume 50% and more of CPU time without actually doing anything.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
- A supported remote control (Apple Remote, Keyspan DMR, Keyspan Express, Keyspan RF Remote for Front Row, Griffin AirClick USB, eHome 2005 receivers, Wii Remote, many mobiles, keyboards, .. see the full list here).
Screenshots:
 Remote Buddy provides an overview over the currently active mapping at any time. |
The menu of the Behaviour for iTunes in action |
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: |  (4.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Still not 64-bit! - Version: 1.14.1, 9/8/2009 06:48PM PST
libertyforall1776
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- At this point, a 64 bit version wouldn't offer any advantages, but have disadvantages
Does what it says but slowly - Version: 1.11.1, 8/12/2008 01:39AM PST
(2 of 4 users found this comment useful)
man290663
This app does EXACTLY what it says it does however for iphone/ipod based remotes it uses Bonjour and very slowly at that. for basic itunes use its not a patch on the Apple Remote App!.
(had it been faster it would have earned another star)
Powerpoint and other remote work using iphone/ipod is so slow as to render it unusable for real-time presentations (at the speed I need to do them) but has some great features- although the user interface is not as intuitive as I would have hoped..
For hardwired Remotes it Works as described but I don't feel it adds any functionality to the Keyspan remote that the Keyspan software does Not have. (had it done more it would have earned another 1/2 star)
However if you need to work with SEVERAL different remotes then tis IS the application for you as it can use any remote to control any application.
Some support materials are only available in German but it is well documented overall so this is not an issue for those non-german speakers.
Unfortunately this version is now deleted from my system but I will keep looking at this product for improvements in speed and usability.
(had it been faster it would have earned another star)
Powerpoint and other remote work using iphone/ipod is so slow as to render it unusable for real-time presentations (at the speed I need to do them) but has some great features- although the user interface is not as intuitive as I would have hoped..
For hardwired Remotes it Works as described but I don't feel it adds any functionality to the Keyspan remote that the Keyspan software does Not have. (had it done more it would have earned another 1/2 star)
However if you need to work with SEVERAL different remotes then tis IS the application for you as it can use any remote to control any application.
Some support materials are only available in German but it is well documented overall so this is not an issue for those non-german speakers.
Unfortunately this version is now deleted from my system but I will keep looking at this product for improvements in speed and usability.
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Really good (with Keyspan Express Remote) - Version: 1.8, 1/13/2008 07:50AM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
BaroqueW
I am using my old Mac Mini PPC as a multimedia station and this software + a remote is really a great complement to my little TV setup.
Remote buddy provides a replacement to a mouse, controls Transmission and VLC and many other programs (awaken, itunes, etc.). The menus are slick and they offer direct access to your files (and yet, it offers the choice of the software you will use to open them).
Behaviours can be freely configured and that's probably better since the default one for VLC is not really adapted to the Keyspan Express Remote (meaning that the play/pause/forward buttons are not used by default, etc.).
Remote buddy provides a replacement to a mouse, controls Transmission and VLC and many other programs (awaken, itunes, etc.). The menus are slick and they offer direct access to your files (and yet, it offers the choice of the software you will use to open them).
Behaviours can be freely configured and that's probably better since the default one for VLC is not really adapted to the Keyspan Express Remote (meaning that the play/pause/forward buttons are not used by default, etc.).
Awesome app with great potential, though...