Salling Clicker 3.5 Available
After a rather lengthy beta period (the creator behind Salling Clicker - Jonas Salling, really, really pays attention to details and produces rock solid products) Salling Clicker 3.5 is now publicly available.
I was fortunate to be part of the beta process so I have been able to use the new version of Salling Clicker for a few months.
Before I take a brief look at the new features; if you are unfamiliar with Salling Clicker I have written about it before, but in essence it is a great piece of software which lets you control your PC from your Eseries device. Although I concentrate on the Mac features Salling Clicker supports Windows as well.
Set up is a breez, you install the PC part of the software and from the PC application you install the software for your S60 3rd edition device via BlueTooth.
The new version of Salling Clicker sports native Symbian support! (Thanks Jonas). Not surprisingly, it feels faster, more stable and more robust than its Java based predecessor.
One of my favourite new features is that in addition to support BlueTooth the new version also lets you control your computer via a WiFi connection.
The connection is faster and much easier to set up than Bluetooth.
You launch the application on your Eseries device and choose how to connect to your computer, in this case via WiFi. Salling Clicker looks for WiFi networks and automatically connects to your preset network of choice. (Tuzi is the name of my WiFi network).
Once on the WiFi network it automatically detects computers running Salling Clicker and lets you connect to your computer.
The screen shots doesn't give the simple set-up procedure justice - it is so easy and fast! Seriously easy! Talk about zero-configuration.
When connected you can control many functions and applications on your computer. For an example, you can check and read mail, control your newsfeed, operate PowerPoint, browse photos with a tight integration of iPhoto.
Salling Clicker is also a really powerful media remote with support for the DVD application, Front Row, EyeTV, VLC, QuickTime etc.
As powerful as the application is I still think that the tight control of iTunes is worth the price of the application $23.95
I envy those of you who haven't tried out Salling Clicker because I know you are in for a pleasant surprise (there is a demo available). You can search your iTunes playlist from the device, just as if you were searching songs on your computer.
In some aspects I think it is easier to use the search function on Salling Clicker to find songs than on iTunes itself!
Salling Clicker must be experienced:
May 13th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Awesome piece of software! I just bought it today after depleting my 30 clicks. Works seamlessly with my E-70, Palm T/X & Treo 650. Wi-Fi is great! Can’t wait to impress my audience during PowerPoint presentation using my E-70 as my clicker! Thanks Ed.
May 13th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Ya I experienced it already
Gr8 piece of work but I still miss control freak… Is there any way to port the application to S60V3???
May 13th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
It’s great! I’m happy.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Good news for my nokia e61: the support of frontrow is complete?
May 14th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Now, if you were able to listen the computer too, ie music, that would be the icing on the cake.
May 14th, 2007 at 6:24 am
that’s a good album (mars audiac quintet).
that program sounds indispensable–even as a luxury item (is this a paradox? such is the e-series)
May 15th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Ed, your write in “Salling Clicker 3.5 Available” (May 13th) that the WIFI connection is faster and much easier to set up than Bluetooth. I installed Salling Clicker on my Mac Powerbook G4 and it works fine with Bluetooth, but not with WIFI. When I try to Connect in Salling Clicker it quickly finds the computer via the bluetooth connection, but does not seem to look for WIFI networks. The window with the choices “Connect with Bluetooth”, “Connect with WIFI” etc. does not come up. Is the phone wrongly configured ?.
Following Salling Clicker Help “Connecting with symbian device”: 1. TCP/IP connection in the SC Settings is enabled. 2. The E61 has a working WIFI network connection as WEB access over my wireless network works fine. To my knowledge my computer has no firewall installed. F-Secure is not installed on the E61. The computer is connected to the same wireless network I am trying to access with Clicker on the Phone.
The question is: why does the choice “Connect with WIFI” not come up when I launch Salling Clicker on the E 61 ?
Can you help ? Thanks !
May 15th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
This Software is just amazing, I just bought it. Really awesome!
May 29th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Anybody know if i can install it on 2 Windows computers at once with only 1 license? I’ll be using only 1 phone to control it, I just have a desktop PC and a media server PC I’d like to control…