In the big picture I shouldn't be complaining about this, but since purchasing both a MacBook Pro and a mac mini, I have an annoying problem of my FrontRow remote controlling both machines simultaneously. That is, both the mac mini and the MacBook Pro came with those killer 6 button FrontRow remotes, but either remote works on either system. That means when I am trying to work on my MacBook and my wife hits the FrontRow menu to watch Harry Potter--my MacBook goes FrontRow mode as well (the IR sensors are very sensitive--so this is a problem even when not in direct line-of-sight). Being a Mac neophyte, I am not entirely sure where to look for a "disable remote" control panel--I checked the system preferences with no luck, and could only find this cryptic (to me) post on modifying a bundle file. Anyone have a suggestion on how to do this? By the way--I know that my intel Mac Mini/MacBook Pro adoption is bleeding edge and there are things that are not quite ideal (like this remote issue and others which if they continue to bother me will show up in my blog too)--but I am 100% convinced that Apple's approach will lead to success. Just getting into my living room and making things like sharing media (and printers for that matter) so simple that all of my family can use it is something that no other computer manufacturer has been able to do.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
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I found the solution to my IR woes here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302545. It describes both pairing an apple remote with a specific computer and disabling the IR port altogether.
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