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#119734 11-Jun-2013 17:15
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Which is the best app to control a laptop (1080p) from my galaxy s4?

Ideally works over home wifi so I feel safe not needing to route data thru cyber space?

Edit: additional info: laptop running win 7

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  #834368 11-Jun-2013 18:19
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What app are you trying to control or do you want a mouse and keyboard on your phone that can be used to control the PC?




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  #834369 11-Jun-2013 18:19
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What app are you trying to control or do you want a mouse and keyboard on your phone that can be used to control the PC?




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  #834374 11-Jun-2013 18:25
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Mainly need to select files and folders to play on windows media player



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  #834375 11-Jun-2013 18:26
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Laptop running Windows 7 64

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  #834385 11-Jun-2013 18:41
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Unified remote in the play store is what you are after.




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  #834460 11-Jun-2013 20:41
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Big fan of unified remote. It has multiple modules including app specific ones (eg Media Centre and VLC to name a couple).

Quite handy too to do basic data entry, works with the android 4.2 'swype' keyboard too.

If that fails (which I highly doubt) there are a lot of other free and paid apps on the play store.

 
 
 
 

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  #834487 11-Jun-2013 21:17
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Tried it ... Pretty awesome! Thanks!

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