Apple Remote Our Rating:

The Apple remote is a necessity for your Macbook or Macbook Pro, iMac,or Apple TV. With this tiny remote, you can have the ability to control your computer and applications on your Apple computer.

The Apple remote features only 6 buttons: volume control up and down, skip left and right, play/pause, and menu. In a media application, this remote controls all of the normal functions in that application, making it simple to control your music or movies from right in front of your computer to all the way across the room.

The menu button pulls up the Front Row application on Apple computers. This gives you access to movies, music, videos, podcasts, and photos in an appealing interface, all navigated with the remote. In the Front Row, you can also access features such as the top 10 music videos or top 10 songs in the iTunes store, movie previews, and more.

Not only is it a media controller, but a presentation controller. It can also be used in other applications. Additionally, it can play media applications in a Windows Boot Camp partition.

The remote has a long range, and has a long battery life. It also is very light and small, yet large enough to not lose it easily. It works great, and is essential to get the most out of your Apple computer experience.

RadioShack Universal Football Remote Our Rating:

The perfect accessory for any football fan! This universal remote works with most TV sets, VCRs, and cable boxes.

The remote works well. It is also soft, so it is perfectly fine to throw it across the room to your buddy without worries. The buttons on it are flat, and the battery pack is inside a small velcro opening in the back. It takes 2 AA batteries. The only thing we weren’t fond of is the fact that the remote doesn’t have a menu button, or other buttons found on a lot of universal remotes.