Comments on: Remote Buddy: Remote Programming for your Mac

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By: Molly

Molly — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:30:18 +0000

This is an old thread, but in case it gets read:

Pumpkinwhite — Is there any chance you could send/post your script for programming Sofa Control for iFlash??? I could really use it!! Thanks!

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By: karesh

karesh — Sat, 19 May 2007 00:31:05 +0000

pumpkinwhite, I had a look at Sofa Control too and saw quite the opposite of what you are writing. Remote Buddy has a one click interface to adding keystroke actions to any programs and allows adding your own AppleScripts just as easy. Sofa Control on the other hand *requires* you to know Applescript. If you try enter a keypress with Sofa Control, it will only generate applescript for you. Not quite an interface! No params, no editing, nothing. Take a look at Cutsom Actions (I think) when choosing a new mapping for the button in Remote Buddy. Full control there! Even mouse wheel! Guess you just oversaw that – makes all the difference!

By: David V.

David V. — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:28:37 +0000

FYI – The price isn’t $9.99. It’s posted as 9.99 Euros.

I still bought it!

By: Jordan Chark

Jordan Chark — Tue, 08 May 2007 05:54:18 +0000

Remote Buddy is quite a useful application, especially for controlling my MacBook from across the room while half-asleep. I’ll take a look at Sofa Control, although I don’t think I’m going to move off of Remote Buddy anytime soon.

By: pumpkinwhite

pumpkinwhite — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:16:10 +0000

I have ‘Remote Buddy’ and ‘Sofa control’ both. At first i liked Remote Buddy, but have now fallen back to Sofa Control. I find the Sofa Control much more intuitive than Remote Buddy. Also Sofa Control lets you write your own scripts. For basic tasks, you don’t even need to know programming. For any application, you can assign keystrokes to buttons on the remote. So you can use virtually any app with Sofa Control (e.g. I programmed the remote to flip flash-cards in iFlash). I would suggest users try both Remote Buddy and Sofa Control and see which suit thems better.

By: joebob2406

joebob2406 — Mon, 07 May 2007 15:26:18 +0000

Looks really neat. I’m going to try it out tonight and see if i find much usefulness. I can definitely see it being useful if you use a project instead of an actual mac monitor.