Dijit 2.6: TV Remote Control on iOS Now with Youtube

By Eliane Fiolet on 09/02/2011, filed in Home > Apple

Left: Dijit 2.6 with YouTube - Right: The Beacon

Dijit is the free iOS application that works with the Beacon from Griffin. The Beacon converts the Bluetooth signals of your iPhone into an infra-red signals used to control various audio-video (AV) devices, you will need to download the free Dijit app to remote control your TV, VCR, set-top box, sound system, media player…

Today, Dijit 2.6 is available in the Apple app store and offers new cool features including the ability to search YouTube for related videos to the show you are watching on TV, Check-ins, Facebook and Twitter sharing in one click, improved navigation with additional icons on the Showcards (that’s how Dijit calls the show detail page).

Check the detailed new feature list in the complete article.

New features – highlights

Left: improved Showcard with new icons - Right: new YouTube feature

Improved Showcards

There is a new set of icons you can use to view Showcards (the screens that display information about the TV shows). The icons are, in order, Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up, Home, Social Activity, Upcoming Episodes, Cast & Crew, YouTube, and Check-In.

YouTube Videos

Now, when you find a show with the Dijit channel guide, you can click to view related YouTube videos, the feature gives access to all kinds of sorting and display options. The videos play within the Dijit app, using the full YouTube player, and it is possible to even AirPlay them to your AppleTV.

Check-Ins

Check-ins in Facebook and Twitter

Now with just a click you can quickly tell your friends what show you are watching, and add a comment about it. There is no Mayor, King, Duke, or Lord of anything right now, but who knows what Dijit will come up with in the future?

Share Videos on Facebook and Twitter
Any video you are watching within Dijit on YouTube can be one-click shared with comments to your favorite social networking services. These icons are displayed on all the sub-screens for a Showcard, and give users easy access to the content they want.

More information on the Dijit blog post.

iOS: was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

About the author: Eliane Fiolet is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo.com where she writes about smart devices, web applications, design and usability. In her parallel life, she owns a Corporate ID design business that helps companies create great brands. Prior to opening her own agency, Eliane worked for a top design firm, Minale Tattersfield Design Strategy, where she created identities for Fortune 500 companies. She also worked in the video game industry as a designer for an award-winning adventure game. Eliane holds a master degree in visual communication and design from the “Art Décoratifs” college and she majored in mathematics and physics in high school. Follow the author on Facebook, Twitter

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