10.4: Use the Apple Remote with other applications

Feb 28, '06 05:53:00AM

Contributed by: shmuel

Tiger only hintWhile messing around with my new MacBook Pro, it suddenly occurred to me that the remote included with my computer might be used to control more than just Front Row. Since it seemed just the sort of thing Apple would think of, I started firing up apps and clicking to see what would happen here's what I found:

First of all, the volume adjustment works the same just about everywhere, although it should be noted that it adjusts the system volume and not application's volume.

There may be others, of course, but those are the ones I found. Now if they'd only expose this through some AppleScript events, so that other applications could take advantage of it. Then it could become really useful.

Comments (12)


Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060222221112383