King of Cool: Salling Clicker...

When Apple launched Front Row and the Apple Remote, everyone as usual went gaga. Sure, using your computer as a media consumption device is cool, but hardly ground breaking. Making a neat little remote to control your computer is cool, but not nearly as cool as using your mobile phone to control your computer via bluetooth or wifi.

I recently stumbled upon this software called Salling Clicker that turns your mobile phone into a remote control for your computer. A seriously cool remote control. See here: http://www.salling.com/

Intsallation, implementation, user interface are all very well done. Here are some shots of the installation process on my Apple Powerbook and Nokia E90:













With the softwares installed on your computer and your phone, you're ready to roll. On an Apple computer, you can use your phone to:
1) control iTunes
2) control presentations (Keynote and Powerpoint)
3) all your media players installed on your computer. I have DVD player, EyeTV, VLC and Quicktime
4) check and read email, on you PHONE!
5) control iPhoto and see the photo thumbnails on your PHONE!
6) use it as an Apple Remote
7) put your computer to sleep
8) control your mouse, means you can surf the net using your phone's D pad as the mouse!
9) control the balance of your sound output
10) control the volume of your sound output


I don't know whether you can see how mind bogglingly cool this is, but it IS mind bogglingly cool.

It means I can lie in bed and navigate around my laptop, which is hooked up to my plasma TV, without using a mouse (using my phone's D pad). Very cool.

It means I can see and control my whole iTunes library through my phone while I'm in the toilet. Very cool.

It means I can put my computer to sleep with my phone while starting my car before I leave for work. Very cool.

It means I can read my emails on my phone without wifi and without launching the Mail application on my phone (via bluetooth). Very cool.

It means I can look for a specific photo in my photo library while watering my plants. Very cool.



Here's a little video of my Nokia E90 controlling my iTunes:





This is the King of Cool.

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emTube: prayer answered...

As everyone knows, Nokia gave us this application called "Video Centre" in some of their latest devices, and inside this application are plugins that stream./download videos from different sites. Of all these sites, the most notable one is of course, youtube.

But anyone who has used Nokia's youtube plugin would know that it's a joke. Somebody in youtube land or Nokia land or wherever it is, somebody who apparently has superior taste in video content as compared to us mere mortals, decides what we can and cannot watch (mobile youtube). And we mere mortals have a superb selection of TWENTY-FIVE, yes, TWENTY FIVE videos.







Ok, let's go through today's selection:
1) Goals for first year as president
2) Salsedo - "Yeah Yeah:"
3) Some japanese cartoon
4) How to make a candy Christmas wreath
5) Crazy acting contest 1: You vs Bad Guy
6) Ocean village - James Martin
7) Moj kot lubiu wode/my crazy cat, lovces water
8) World free hand drawing champion
9) Some Japanese video
10) Wojciech Jaruzelski oglasza wprowadzenie stanu wojennego
11) Cussin'
12) Opening weekend at Shawnee Peak
13) Paint your smile
14) The guild: a Christmas raid carol
15) December 14, 2007
16) Another Japanese video
17) Alle vrouwen versieren met 1 smsje
18) Long haired dachshund puppy in the snow
19) Wakeing fat fat
20) Un africain incroyable mais vrai "choc"
21) All we want for Christmas 2007
22) Doubletake
23) Another Japanese video
24) Even Fools Know LIVE in Washington Square Park
25) Have yourself an alternative (merry) Christmas

So, out of the whole selection, which one would you voluntarily have looked for? My personal answer is: none.

But have no fear. Thanks to people like Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz, who wrote the software emTube, we are free again. Free to choose whatever we want to watch. 

With a brilliantly simple interface, it is a fine conduit for playing youtube videos on S60 phones.













emTube playing a youtube video in action on an E61i:



Thank you Mr Jedruszkiewicz!


http://www.emtube.yoyo.pl/

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