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Salling Clicker - Use handheld devices as Mac remotes
Authored by: raga on Sep 16, '04 06:52:36PM
Another software for controlling your Mac via BlueTooth is Romeo. It is free (as in beer and speech!) and it's Sourceforge page can be found here.

Perhaps someone could do a review of Romeo as well and compare it to Salling Clicker?

No, I haven't tried either (I do have a BT PB but my current phone doesn't have BT.

cheers- raga

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Salling Clicker - Use handheld devices as Mac remotes
Authored by: robg on Sep 17, '04 09:42:38AM

I had looked at this one, too, but there's no Palm support, just BlueTooth phones. Since I have a non Bluetooth phone, I needed a Palm solution.

-rob.



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Salling Clicker - Use handheld devices as Mac remotes
Authored by: BulbVivid on Sep 17, '04 12:34:41PM

I had downloaded Romeo a while back and had given it a cursory glance, but since I had Clicker, I didn't really try it out.

Last night I fired up both Romeo and Salling Clicker (both can connect to the same phone at the same time) and kinda ran through their features side by side.

The main differences between the two apps are similar to the differences between most free apps and quality shareware or commercial products—the free ones usually lack the polish of the shareware and commercial products.

I was going to give a feature to feature report, but that was going to take a long time, so I'll just give you the gist of my observations (by no means scientific).

Romeo is a capable application, and seemed to work well with my phone. Proximity controls connected and reconnected with ease, though the auto-reconnect has to be disabled in the app's preferences. The interface is a little cramped for my taste, and the windows are brushed metal (good or bad, I don't really care, though I know some don't like it). Though Romeo supports Applescript, the scripts must be entered in a small box in the app's preferences, with no way to test or run the scripts. Also little quirks marred the experience, like having to push the joystick up twice in mouse mode to get the mouse to move up. And as Rob pointed out, Romeo does not support as many devices as Clicker. Despite its detriments, Romeo is a good app, mostly because it's free. If it were shareware, I wouldn't even consider it with Clicker around.

Clicker has a cleaner interface, and though the app is accessed through a pref pane, the developer has done a good job keeping things easy in a small space. Clicker has integrated Script Editor support, which is a major plus for me. Clicker also stays out of the way better (I had a hard time getting Romeo's dock icon to go away) and has more features than Romeo.

So, without going into excessive detail, Romeo works well, but Clicker works better and sets a high standard for others to follow.

Jason



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Salling Clicker - Use handheld devices as Mac remotes
Authored by: raga on Sep 18, '04 06:01:04AM

Thanks for the impressions. I hope Romeo and Clicker both drive each other to further improvements by the time I get my BT phone next year.

cheers- raga



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Salling Clicker - Use handheld devices as Mac remotes
Authored by: egon12 on Sep 19, '04 11:47:49AM

I have tested Romeo, well I use it quite everyday. It's extremely good, works fine and it's quite stable.
I use my SonyEricsson as a remote control for iTunes and VLC, and sometimes MPlayer. It worked without any problem. Compared to Saliing Clicker is less sofisticated (i.e. no search for Artist or Album in iTunes), but it's free and I do not need the "advanced" option in Salling Clicker.
Romeo has the "proximity mode" like Clicker, the creation of the Plugin is really simple if you know a little bit of applescript.
I used it once with Keynote, it worked fine, and the audience was impressed.

I would give 8/10 to Romeo, in my humble opinion.

Francesco.



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