10,000 Monkeys - Harnessing the Power of Typing Monkeys

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More Mac Mini Fun

First, some big news, last night at 12:42AM, 10K Monkeys had its 10th Web Hit!  Double digit readers!  I'd like to thank my loyal fan base who has been reading since the beginning 2 weeks ago.

Anyway, the remote with my new mac mini is great.  It kind of looks like an ipod shuffle.  I give it three days before its lost in some dark recess of my aparmtment. 

There is a great post here about some things you can do with the remote like:
  • Click any button on the remote to wake your Mac from Sleep
  • Control the volume of your Mac with the +/- buttons
  • Control your QuickTime Movies, including Play, Pause, Fast Forward, Rewind, and Skip to the Beginning; Pause the movie and click the Next button to step through the movie frame by frame
  • Control DVD playback
  • Use the Next and Previous buttons to control slides in Keynote
  • Use the Next and Previous buttons to move between songs in iTunes; Play and Pause songs with the Play button
  • Next and Previous buttons move you through the Source pane in iPhoto.
  • Click the Play button to start a slide show using that source; click again to pause the slide show, and the Next and Previous buttons will move to the next or previous slide; Click the Menu button to exit the slide show
  • Click and hold the Play button and a “snoring” image of the remote will appear on screen. Continue holding the Play button and your Mac will go to sleep
  • Check the remote's battery life by aiming it an iSight camera and looking at it in PhotoBooth
Gotta love all that functionality from a 6 button remote. Luckily, I also added an iSight this weekend to the 10K Monkey's pantheon of gadgets.  I don't know why I purchased one, but it was 50% off at the Apple Store this weekend.  It was like a siren on a deserted island calling to me.  I was powerless. Oh, well, now I have a $70 method of checking my remote's battery life.  I mean how else would I do it?
Posted: Mar 07 2006, 09:30 AM by kmarshall | with no comments
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