iRed Lite - control any app with your Apple remote

If you have a Mac with a remote (and almost all of them ship with one these days), you might have been slightly dismayed to realize that other than controlling media playback there's not a lot you can do with it. As usual, someone has solved this problem.

iRed Lite is a little utility that you can run on your Mac that will listen to commands from your remote and control other programs, like iPhoto, Keynote, PowerPoint, or basically anything else you choose. In our experience configuration can be a little finicky (we never did get the Mouse Control plugin to work properly), but overall it performs as advertised in its current beta state.

Tags: Apple remote, AppleRemote, freeware, iPhoto, iRed Lite, IredLite, iTunes, Keynote, PowerPoint, remote control, RemoteControl