Fast access to your media

Through Remote Buddy's menu, you have direct access to your local or shared iTunes® music library, iPhoto®-albums, VIDEO_TS folders found through Spotlight™ via the movie library as well as your recordings and channels in EyeTV. You can browse your music sorted by albums, artists, title and playlist, rate your songs, view cover art and other important metadata. Even in long lists you can quickly access a specific item - thanks to Remote Buddy's automatic alphabetic grouping. But maybe you just want to move the volume sliders a bit. What makes Remote Buddy stand out against traditional media center software are its abilities to bridge between the most different multimedia- and desktop applications and to make otherwise decentral functionality available through one central menu. Remote Buddy's menu does not just manage application launches, but allows access to advanced functions of these applications through its menu - lifting ease of use to a wholly new level.

Presenting - professionally

Remote Buddy makes it easy for you to give successful presentations. Control f.ex. PowerPoint, Keynote®, NeoOffice®, Adobe® Reader® or Preview. Activate the builtin Mousespot feature to gently highlight the position of your mouse cursor and use it as an elegant laser pointer. Shift your audience's attention exactly where you want it to be. Of course, with Remote Buddy, you can also control the position of your mouse pointer with your remote control as well. Not without reason is Remote Buddy extraordinarily popular among presenters on renowned universities, among scientists, self-employed professionals and executive managers, in the advertising industry and huge corporations.

Virtual keyboard, mouse and remote control

Your remote is now also a keyboard, mouse or .. virtual remote. Enter texts and URLs using the freely scalable onscreen keyboard, use it as a two button mouse with wheel - or control applications that have support for and listen to an Apple® Remote - with any remote control of your choice supported by Remote Buddy!

Take direct control of more than 100 applications and system parameters

Remote Buddy does not only allow you to control your presentations, but also all commonly used browsers, players, TV applications, media center software like f.ex. Front Row, games, fun software like Google™ Earth and Photobooth and important system parameters like screen brightness, volume and monitor setup. Browse your filesystem or quickly access just your recently used files. Remote Buddy's unmatched, functional richness is rooted in its design, that builds upon special plugins - so called Behaviours. Thanks to intelligent algorithms, Remote Buddy automatically chooses the best matching Behaviour for the respective situation. You can access a legend of the current (and freely configurable) button mapping within the Remote Buddy menu. The concept is completed with a builtin Online Updater, which offers you new and updated Behaviours to choose from and install with one click. You can find the steadily growing list of available Behaviours here.

Easy configuration - test result "very good"

Remote Buddy just works. But if you should want to change something nonetheless, you are able to configure almost every aspect - with ease. Change the mapping of a button with one click, create the menu structure of your dreams with just drag & drop - or create your own actions within minutes using a system of building blocks. In a big comparative test of one of the most renowned, high-circulation, independant IT magazines in Europe, c't (issue 5/2007), Remote Buddy was the only program to score the best possible grade - a "very good" - in both of the two test areas "configuration" and "flexibility". It also received - by far - the best cumulative grade (average of all single grades) of all test candidates.

Make best use of internal receivers and use multiple Apple® Remotes

Use multiple Apple® Remotes and map them differently (f.ex. use the first remote to exclusively control iTunes® and the second remote for everything else). Enjoy exclusive features and benefits by using the Remote Buddy Kernel Extension. Among them is support for arbitrary length button presses for the play- and menu-buttons, compatibility with OS 10.4.9 as well as better reaction times in many situations.

Extensive hardware support / Retrofit an Apple® Remote

Remote Buddy does not only support the infrared receiver of the latest Macs, but also Hardware by Keyspan™, Griffin, SiK™, the Wiimote and eHome 2005 Receiver. Retrofitting an Apple® Remote to a PowerPC™-Mac® or Mac® Pro is just as easy with Remote Buddy as using your Wiimote as the ultimate remote control with IR mouse mode. Maximize the usefulness of your hardware with Remote Buddy and enjoy an unmatched freedom of choice.

Create your own Behaviours with ease

Your application does not have its own Behaviour, yet? No problem - creating one is very easy and in many cases doesn't require more than five minutes. Behaviours can be created in Xcode® as well as with the integrated Behaviour Construction Kit and thus within themselves unify speed, full API access, functionality and flexibility without making compromises. The Behaviour Construction Kit provides you with building blocks like AppleScript®, actions of other Behaviours as well as emulated mouse and keyboard events, out of which you can quickly create a full blown Behaviour of your own.

How to retrofit an Apple® Remote and other remote controls

This article gives you information on which hardware you need to put an Apple® Remote into operation with your computer and how you can configure Remote Buddy purely as a driver that emulates the events of the receiver of newer models. If you just want to add a remote control to your computer, and it doesn't necessarily need to be an Apple® Remote, the last part informs you about available alternatives.