Unified Remote For Mac

Alongside its mobile based relative, the Unified Remote app aims to do for your Mac what the first remote control did for TVs back in the 1950s.

Because there seems to be a general agreement that our smartphones are the most important gadgets of our generation, it is only natural that it should the first choice for controlling other gadgets in our life.

This being said, Unified Remote enables you to sit back, relax, and take advantage of all the benefits of having your iOS, Android or Windows Phone act as universal remote controllers for your OS X, Windows, or Linux based desktop devices.

In order to get started with Unified Remote, you must first install the app on both your  smartphone and your Mac, make sure that both devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi network, and then simply click the “Start Server” option from the app’s status bar menu.

As a general overview of the current situation on the market, nowadays there are a lot of remote control apps of this sort that enable you to transform most smartphones into remote controls for your computer, but the thing that makes Unified Remote stand out is the app’s attention to detail.

Besides the expected features from an application of this sort like basic input for mouse movements, screen mirroring between your Mac and the phone, support for standard of custom keyboards, slideshow remote, easily accessible power and media options, as well as a useful file manager, Unified Remote has something more to offer.

A praiseworthy thing about this service/app is the fact that the development team behind it have really though things through and have realized that, no matter how good you make a remote control app, the best solution is to make tailored and bespoke “remotes” for each important app separately.

A good thing indeed, as Unified Remote comes with remotes that not only make it simple for you to use, but to also get the best of your favorite apps, namely VLC, QuickTime, Safari, Firefox, Opera, iTunes, iPhoto, GOM Player, and Terminal remote, just to name a few.

Favorite music or video sharing services have not been forgotten, fact proven by Unified Remote’s set of remotes for YouTube, Spotify, Google Music, Netflix, Powerpoint, Keynote, and XBMC.

What we have here then is actually distilled comfort, as Unified Remote does exactly what apps should always do - to bring our devices together towards the ultimate purpose of making our lives a little bit better and easier.