Use UiRemote – It’s a Remote in Your Phone!

IR apps are hard to come by on the iPhone, but if you look reeeeeeeeel hard, you can find a couple out there. They tend to carry a home-automation slant since the lack of an infrared port means you have to do it via WiFi.

Welcome to UiRemote, an ambitious project by a handful of scrappy University of Toronto students that uses a fingertip-sized IR blaster connected to the headphone jack paired with a totally customizable app to get the job done. They are still tweaking and making changes to the app, but odds are it will be out within a couple of months.

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