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Remote Buddy makes that remote kick some serious ass. For instance. You can use the remote to advance slides in powerpoint. You can use the remote to go back and forward in firefox. You can control vlc with the remote...

OMFG the remote rocks.

Remote Buddy is in "beta" and the developers say you'll get free upgrades for all the 1.x releases if you pay the low low price of 9.99 euros (that's $12.81 in girly-man american dollars.

[ Looks like a pretty rad bit of software.

Makes MediaCentral kind of redundant, which I like. MediaCentral has problems. Primarily, it's not good at handling "OMG I can't read that file format" conditions. It'll sit and choke.

Also, it's really not designed to handle iTunes libraries as, ahem, extensive as mine. When I go into iTunes mode, and go into "Albums" it sits and chokes for *minutes*. That renders it useless. I wonder if this app suffers the same way when in fullscreen mode...

Course, all my poor old non-intel macs don't have the built in reciever. I could get a keyspan remote, but that would hardly feed my desire (almost completely unreasonable desire, i might add) for a new intel-mac Mini.

Curse you, Apple. Curse you. -k]

Remote Buddy