Rowmote: Remote Control for Mac and Apple TV
By Evan Schoenberg
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Description
* Rowmote brings the simplicity and power of the Apple hardware remote, with perfect control of dozens of applications, to your iPhone or iPod Touch! Please read more below :) *
You love the remote control which came with your Mac - so simple yet elegant, with easy control of Front Row, iTunes, Quicktime, DVD Player, Keynote, and more.
Or, your Mac didn’t come with a remote control or doesn’t even have an infrared port. Buying a remote control, from Apple or a third party, would carry a significant cost!
You carry your iPhone or iPod Touch wherever you go... so why should you carry a second device just to control your computer? Furthermore, why should you need line-of-sight to do so?
Enter Rowmote! Rowmote is like your Mac or Apple TV’s remote control, but over the wireless network and even better! By tapping the Apps button, you get bonus abilities, switching between controlled programs, toggling the iTunes Visualizer, and more. Rowmote will even wake sleeping Macs.
FEATURES
- Control your Mac or Apple TV over a wireless network. No line of sight necessary.
- Functions just like the hardware Apple Remote Control in:
• Front Row
• Adobe Lightroom 2
• Airfoil Video
• Amarra
• Aperture
• Apple TV (after software installation)
• Boxee
• DVD Player
• Ecoute
• eyeTV 3.x
• Firefox
• Hulu Desktop
• iPhoto
• iTunes
• Keynote ‘08 & ‘09
• kJams Pro
• Last.fm
• Logic
• Microsoft Powerpoint ‘04 & ‘08
• mPlayer
• Movist
• OpenOffice Impress
• Preview
• PandoraBoy
• PandoraJam
• PandoraOne Desktop
• Plex
• Quicktime
• Rdio
• Safari
• Skim
• Songbird
• Spotify
• Squire
• The Tube
• VLC
• xbmc (Xbox Media Center)
- SWITCH: Access your Mac’s Dock, launching & switch between all controllable applications on the Mac, toggle the iTunes visualizer, and more. Order & display customizable.
- Click-and-hold works just like on the physical remote in applications; for example, holding the right button fast-forwards, while a single click is ‘next’. This is a feature no other iPhone remote control I know of does properly!
- SLEEP AND WAKE: Put your Mac to sleep by holding the Play button for 3 seconds while controlling any Apple application, just like the hardware remote. Rowmote automatically wakes up sleeping machines which are connected via Ethernet!
- Pause the music or video automatically when you answer a call on your iPhone
- Proximity sensor support to automatically turn the screen off if the device is face-down
- Automatically enables Front Row in Mac OS X 10.4, even if your computer doesn’t have an infrared port.
- Secure authentication
- Optional dark interface
REQUIREMENTS
• Mac OS X 10.4.0 or later or an unlocked Apple TV.
• Mac: The free Rowmote Helper program must be running on the Mac to be controlled. Download at www.rowmote.com. Some features require later versions of Mac OS X.
• Apple TV: Apple TV installation requires unlock and installation of the Rowmote Helper plugin. Please see www.rowmote.com/atv.
• The iPhone or iPod Touch must be on the same wireless network (a computer-to-computer, or ‘Ad Hoc’, network works, as well). If a firewall is enabled, Rowmote Helper must be allowed access or port 5842 must be opened.
Rowmote is a steal! Couple it with Apple’s free Remote app to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into the ultimate controller for home stereo, mobile presentation, or casual video viewing.
The artwork of Rowmote was designed by Rik Schennink.
What's New in Version 3.6.2
• Fixed display of the Eject Disc function
• Fixed compatibility of the Applications menu with iOS 3.1.x and earlier
Customer Reviews
Scam!!!
Do not buy if your apple tv is not jail broken!!!
Useful but crashy
Useful little utility. When working with a Mac it crashes a whole bunch and once your phone goes to sleep it takes ages to reconnect to the Mac and most of te time it requires you to kill the app and then restart it. Not exactly presenter friendly - doing all sorts of quirky things to your I decide while giving a talk.
To do for devs: run in the background, keep-alive connectivity, don't allow device to turn off wifi. Allow for app switches without your app having to re-initialize when switching back to it.
Does what it says
Aside from the Mozilla Firefox function, this app lets keeps me stationary. Which is great considering the fact that I'm extremely lethargic
- $0.99
- Category: Utilities
- Updated: Jan 31, 2012
- Version: 3.6.2
- Size: 9.1 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: Evan Schoenberg, M.D.
- © 2012 Regular Rate and Rhythm Software
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Top In-App Purchases
- Rowmote Pro Upgrade$3.99
