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Spectabulous iPhone use # 71
I don't know how I can call myself a legit member of the Apple cult when I've had my iPhone for almost a year and just today figured out how to use the free Remote app. I'm certain this is old news to many of you who own this little polished box of dreams, but just in case... with this app you can control all your media on your Apple computer from anywhere in the house/office when you're connected to your wireless network. Who knew?? You did... of course.
So there I was grilling some chicken on an ordinary Tuesday night, waiting on my iPhone timer to go off to tell me it was time to turn the the bird breasts (iPhone spectabulous use # 39), and blip... the lightbulb in a thought cloud appeared above my head. I've had this stupid Remote app for almost 5 months now. Hmmm... maybe it actually remotely controls something. Sure enough, in typical Apple easy-peezy fashion, all I had to do was put my iPhone in the cradle, open iTunes, and enter the 4 digit code on my phone (from the Remote app) into iTunes, and voila! I'm maestro'ing my music from the grill outside. Magic. Somebody at Apple should get paid for that. So now I just walk around the house changing songs and turning the volume up and down, well, because I can. I could also control TV shows on my Mac from across the room... if I was that cool to have TV shows on my Mac. Baby steps, grasshopper. Anyway, if you already knew this, 1) good for you and 2) why didn't you tell me? If you didn't, shame on you. And you call yourself an Apple afficionado? Pffft. BTW, 10 months later and I'm still in awe of my Nikon D3 camera, too. The image above was taken at ISO 5000 handheld at 1/20th of a second. Almost no perceptible noise. Ridiculous, isn't it? |