Apple's remote controls more than FrontRow

Is there some sort of API for the remote? It would be so cool to have for instance apps like coverflow or maybe even games (who knows) to be controlled with this little gem.

#26 above hit on the head with Sailing Clicker. If you don't have one the new macs with the front row remote, it is the best way for remotely controlling your entire mac via bluetooth!

People, forget the mac remote. IT IS NOT AS GOOD AS SOME!!! I got Sailing Clicker for my cell and it works WAY better!!! It uses bluetooth, it shows the song info and the artwork in itunes and the best part is that the battery on your cell can be recharged!!! I mean the battery for the apple one is what, like 2.99. I love my Nokia 3650 and Sailing clicker!!! It is the best way to go. I don't work for them either.

I have the new 20" Intel iMac and the iPod Universal Dock. The only problem I have found is the remote tries to control both at the same time (unless you put the dock out of Line of Sight of the IR sensor in the iMac), making the IR in the universal dock kinda useless as the iMac is opening Front Row while the dock is switching to a new song.

RE: (#9) "check the option for urself under system prefs >>security"

No sign of that there on the latest edition PB G4 1.67 HiRes. All that preference area gives me access to is: Firevault, PW for wake from sleep/scr, disable auto login, pw to unlock secure prefs, log out after n min of inactivity, secure virtual memory.

Uh.... isn't Front Row a front end to DVD player and iTunes et al? OF COURSE it is going to work with the DVD player. Otherwise all it would do is flip those icons around in a circle and bounce through whatever menus Front Row might provide that are not part of THE APPS WHICH COMPRISE IT.

I'm sure that this is a stupid question but i was wondering if this would wour with windows. I just hate having to walk over to my workstation to change songs on itunes.

Someone mentioned you can sleep the iMac/MacBook by holding down the play/pause button, so for completeness I'll add that it can be used to wake a sleeping Mac as well.

In fact, this goes a long way to explain why Apple went to the trouble of equipping the newer Macs (and maybe all Macs from now on) with infrared receivers, instead of using a Bluetooth remote as many "experts" claimed they should have done.

That is, so that they can be turned on while in standby/sleep mode, just like a device such as a VCR. This makes them ideal for home theater type uses and presentations.

IR is also much less hassle to setup (pairing etc) than Bluetooth, is probably more responsive (my Sony Ericsson phone + Salling Clicker never seems quite as fast to respond) and the line of sight nature is less unlikely to interfere with other equipment (eg, controlling a Mac in the next room).

Sometimes it seems, Apple knows what it's doing!

Minor correction, the remote will allow you to choose a netboot drive, but you have to use the Option key at power on to get this choice. Actually, it will allow you to cycle through all the bootable "drives" that Open Firmware/EFI find...

Cool in a nearly useless and stupid kind of way. ;o)

What I want to know about the remote is this: When will someone come out with a low cost clone or a universal remote that handles the same remote codes as this remote?

We all know how many remotes there are out there. And at $29 this thing is overpriced if you have a universal dock.

I'm all for Apple design and quality but the price of this remote is laughably high.