Apple yesterday quietly updated its Remote app with some slight performance improvements and the addition of a “skip back” button when playing video, but one minor, useful, and oddly enough not-mentioned update was the addition of a new icon on the Now Playing screen that gives users the ability to control the iTunes visualizer. via […]
Continue reading...Monday, December 27, 2010
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Apple last Wednesday issued an update to its Remote app for iOS devices. The update adds quite a bit of new functionality, including support for AirPlay, Internet radio controls, the ability to control iTunes on your computer, and of course, stability and performance improvements. The Remote 2.1 update can be downloaded for free from iTunes […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Comments Off on Apple’s Remote App gets updated for new AppleTV; now with iPad and Retina Display support
Apple today updated its Remote App with a bevy of new features, some of which include otimization for the Retina Display on the iPhone 4 and new iPod touch, as well as support for shared libraries on iTunes and the new Apple TV. And speaking of, Apple TV 2.0 has already begun shipping and should […]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
Comments Off on An Apple Remote vs. a Microsoft Remote
Pictured below – An Apple Remote and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote. Marco Ament writes of the obvious differences in design and function between the two: The Microsoft remote uses two AA batteries that need to be replaced about every 6 months. The Apple remote uses a single CR2032 that has never needed to […]
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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