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- TUAW Tip: Turn off your remote control infrared receiver
Filed under: Hardware, Tips and tricks, TUAW Tips
The Apple Remote is a slick little gadget, but Apple made a particular design choice that annoys the bejebus out of me: out of the box, every Mac is set up to work with any Apple Remote. If you have a couple of sleeping MacBooks in your living room like we do when you pick up a remote to watch something on the Apple TV, you could very well wake all three devices with the press of a button or two. To make matters worse, Apple isn't very forthcoming about solving this problem or giving you an easy way to bind an Apple Remote with one device or another. Fortunately, there are a few options that aren't hard to pull off.
Your first choice is to completely disable the infrared receiver on your Mac. If you rarely or never use your Apple Remote, you can disable the infrared port on your Mac so it simply no longer accepts signals, intentional or otherwise. This is done with the setting you see above, accessible at the bottom of the Security Preferences Pane.
Your next option is to pair your remote(s) with their respective devices, a step that I wish Apple could somehow implement from the get-go so you don't have to. Here is an Apple support doc detailing the one simple step to pair an Apple Remote with a Mac, and another on pairing and unpairing a remote with an Apple TV. In case you ever have to unpair a remote from your Mac, you can simply open the Security Preferences Pane and click the Unpair button at the bottom right (note that this button is only illuminated when an Apple Remote is actually paired with your Mac; otherwise it's faded out).
For your sake, I hope you don't have too many Apple Remotes to pair, but this should solve those sudden waking moments for your Macs.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
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Filed under: Features, TUAW Business, Weekend Review
Welcome to this week's installment of TUAW best of the week, where we gather up our favorite posts of the week for your easy clicking enjoyment.
TUAW Hands On with the Apple Keyboard
Mike gives the new keyboards a go.Dockables: Control your Mac from your Dock
A sweet little utility.Love your Finder: A keyboard shortcut for adding items to the sidebar
We got some great Finder tricks this week.Installer.app beta for iPhone: Install, update iPhone apps over Wi-Fi
The iPhone got its first (butnot only) package installer this week.iWood cases for iPhone now shipping
Better than an iPutter any day.Mirror-enabled videoconferencing on the iPhone
A bit slow but moving in the right direction.Lights Off: a native iPhone game
I cannot get past level 6 without skipping.Dueling bloggers on the AWOL iPhone SDK
I'm not holding my breath waiting for an SDK to appear.A huge collection of Apple TV resources
TUAW loves Apple TV.John Lennon on iTunes
Nobody told us there would be artists like these. Strange iTunes days indeed.TUAW Tip: How to manually delete a .Mac Web Gallery
David lets you know how.Interactive fiction on the iPhone
Get iPhone. Power iPhone on. Install software. Play. Plugh. Xyzzy. Recite poetry.The perfect iPhone email setup
"Perfect" is a moving target but we try.iTunes: Free Thursday
Still Free.iPhone Coding: Working with the Navigation Bar
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