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AirMote Remote Control for iPhone or iPod Touch

Thursday, November 6th, 2008
by lepton

My newest application is out on the iTunes App Store!

AirMote lets you watch video, listen to music, and control presentations on your Macintosh, using your iPhone or iPod Touch as the remote control.

Several remote control layouts are built-in, set up for controlling applications like Front Row, Keynote, iTunes, iPhoto, QuickTime Player, and similar media players. Other layouts take advantage of Apple’s Mouse Keys, Full Keyboard Access, and VoiceOver features.

AirMote is fully customizable, so it can command your computer in all sorts of ways. It does it by sending keystrokes to your computer. You can make your own buttons that send what you want, and put the buttons onto remote control layouts you set up. You can only have up to twelve buttons on screen at once, but you can have as many screens as you like, and switch between them quickly, round-robin style.

The basic idea is you can sit back and watch movies, show photos, listen to podcasts and music around the house, or stand up and give a presentation, or demonstrate your software to your audience from across a conference room or auditorium, with your trusty handheld as the remote control.

AirMote uses VNC protocols every recent Macintosh can understand. You have to turn on permission and set a password in your Mac’s System Preferences > Sharing pane, then AirMote can make the connection over the WiFi LAN, or even across the Internet using WiFi or the cellular data network.