Remote Buddy is my new buddy (+ Transmission behavior & actions)

Holy moley! I had thought Sofa Control was a great app for the old Mac mini, but it comes nowhere close to Remote Buddy. The latest release—Preview 6—includes a “construction kit” where you can make your own behaviors and actions for any app with only a basic concept of coding.

Each application control command can be a sequence of keystroke commands, applescripts, pre-defined global Remote Buddy actions, and even mouse-wheel commands (oddly enough). Within minutes, I had my own actions and behavior set up to control Transmission from the sofa. Duly impressed.

Not to mention: the app works properly with screen savers, dismissing them when they are active (unlike Sofa Control which sends its commands to the “background”), and even works within MediaCentral—making the promise of using both it and Front Row together a possibility (Sofa Control will launch the app but will disable itself in the process since it conflicts).

Totally worth the 10 euros I spent on it. If you own Remote Buddy, you can download my Transmission definitions below.