Posted by twobs on April 20th, 2007
Salling Clicker is by far the best piece of software I have ever had the pleasure of using. A Bit of a bold statement but I demand you download the demo and try it for yourself (if you have bluetooth that is).
Salling Clicker uses your bluetooth mobile phone to control almost anything you want on your computer, and it is compatable with a massive number of handsets.
Clicker allows you to remotely control absolutley everything you could ever want to on your mac or PC. exelent if, like me, you have a computer you use as a hifi/tv etc.
I have the programme running on two machines.
On my Mac Mini I have Clicker set to control iTunes (it controls music, shared music, playlists, audiobooks, podcasts, videos etc.) EyeTV (play recordings, control live TV etc.) DVD Player, VLC and Quicktime. Clicker also comes with a whole load of system commands allowing you to control volume/ballance of audio, sleep/shutdown computer, zoom in/out, and even use your mobile as a mouse.
On my Powerbook I use my mobile to read my email from another room, or catch up on the news from NetNewsWire. Saving those WAP pennies, or even more important those couple of steps to my computer.
Clicker comes ready loaded with remotes for several widely used aplications that allow you to control many of their basic functions, but they really distinguish themselves from any other remote with the display.

Salling Clicker displaysall the basic song data it can from iTunes, not just the track name, artist and album, but the progress, rating, iTunes status, and even the album art in a friendly iPod style display. Great for saving display power if you are using it for nothing more than listening to music.
All the commands are apple scrpit bassed, so if there is something you want to do that isn’t included, just make a macro, or download one someone else has made from the Salling website or forums. There is even a remote control for Logic.
Combining the power of apple script with bluetooth makes the posibilities for expansion on Salling Clicker virtually endless, I’d love to see more intigration with the internet, such as the plugin allowing which automatically looks up unknown callers in the Yellow Pages.
A little more integration with the phone features would also be nice, such as a transfer of data without having to exit the applet. However this is due to technical restrictions on the more ‘budget’ handsets and greater phone integration is available on some models.
The only problem I have with Salling Clicker would be the ammount of battery power it eats up from your mobile through running Java and Bluetooth constantly, but unless you use it constantly for a long period of time this shouldn’t really be a problem. If you are planning to use it in this way, just plug in your phone.
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