There are probably few peripherals I need as badly as the Streamzap PC remote control.
When I moved to New York last year I had to leave my vinyl and CD collection back in storage in California. I took it as an opportunity to free myself from a few hundred pounds of stuff and I decided to try and keep my entire music collection on my PC. I bought some nice PC speakers, and now everything I listen to resides on an enormous external hard drive. I don’t miss having a stereo (in my small apartment it just seems like an extra piece of equipment I don’t have space for at the moment), but having to get up and go to my computer every time I want to skip a track or adjust the volume has definitely been a pain.
I’ve seen a few different PC remotes, but up until now I hadn’t seen one that seemed easy enough to install and cheap enough to warrant buying. The Streamzap is only $30, and you just plug the infrared sensor into a USB port. It’s supposed to work with WinAmp, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, MusicMatch, and most of the other MP3 and DVD software that’s out there for the PC.
