The iPhone Remote Buddy programmed with AJAX is in beta from IOSpirit. This is yet another application released from the guidelines on the Apple iPhone Developer Site. It appears to be another Safari add on program. It has some interesting features listed below.
- Control more than 70 applications, system parameters and Remote Buddy itself.
- Live updating mini version of your desktop to reposition the mouse curson on screen. It even has access to multiple screens, toggle Mousespot, perform mouse clicks or navigate your presentation.
- Type text on your Mac through the iPhone Safari browser.
- Access the fully configurable, powerful menu of Remote Buddy. It’s animated and AJAX-based.
- Browse the iTunes music library on your Mac through Remote Buddy by artist, album, playlists and tracks. Huge lists of entries are automatically broken up into A-Z categories.
- An interactive “now playing” display for iTunes, play, pause, skip tracks, change the rating of a song and see the cover art.
- Launches VIDEO_TS folders on the Mac through the iPhone by interfacing with Remote Buddy’s movie library. The Movies section is showing any covers it can find and starts playback of the selection in DVD Player or VLC.
- Zap in EyeTV and start playback of its recordings. Browse channels and recordings and see your Mac switch to them as you touch them.
The companies web site gives some additional information about what the AJAX Remote is and how it works. It is a virtual remote control, that is integrated into Remote Buddy and gives you access to Remote Buddy’s menu through a web browser. AJAX stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” which allows the creation of bandwidth-efficient, dynamic web sites.
The mini webinterface Remote Buddy dynamically generates is loaded into the Safari browser on the iPhone. The second piece to the Remote Buddy is a web-server that runs directly on the Mac. Using this software on the iPhone over a Wireless Local Area Network is very high speed with low reaction times claiming to be only a few milliseconds.
Having not personally testing this software on either the Mac or an iPhone, it sure is worth a test drive. If it does even half of the functions well, it could be to most, a killer app. Via IOSpirit.