peebo Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 So I kind of use my PC as a TV. I'm looking for a remote that isn't super expensive that I can use with my Hackintosh to program to play VLC, Quicktime and iTunes. Any ideas? I'm in the UK but happy to buy on US eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1123 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Keyspan makes a couple of remotes that work great with Macs. IR http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16833998033 RF http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16833998030 I picked up the RF remote because I have a Hackintosh media center that drives two TV's that are in two different rooms and I wanted to be able to use the same remote in both rooms. Only problem is that different programs require different key commands to do more or less the same thing and there was no config utility included. Fortunately, Iospirit makes a program called remote buddy to fix this. I highly recommend this software. The Keyspan remote was only semi-useful until I found out about Remote Buddy. Now it is simply awesome. Remote Buddy has a bunch of key binding presets for all the most common media Apps and you can define your own behaviors as well. So now I can use Front Row, Media Central, VLC, Quicktime, iTunes, DVD player etc and every key on the Keyspan remote does what you'd expect. Actually you can control EVERYthing on your computer with one of the supported remotes if you're inclined. Virtual keyboard, mouse, file browser, Web Browser etc. http://www.iospirit.com/remotebuddy Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedmitchell Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Alternatively: http://www.amazon.com/Wii-Remote-Controlle...7329&sr=8-1 + http://blog.hiroaki.jp/2006/12/000433.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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